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  • Anna

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    Phew . Now to the final opera (I just want the title)
    The Fly. Based on a story by George Langelaan

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by Anna View Post
      The Fly. Based on a story by George Langelaan
      We got there in the end. Remember the film?



      Message to self: start using moisturisers now.

      Do you fancy an A, Anna?
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Gosh, shall I remove that picture? It's giving me nightmares!
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26540

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          Gosh, shall I remove that picture? It's giving me nightmares!
          Nah.... it's how I imagine a couple of people on this Forum (not AA participants, I hasten to add...)
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Anna

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            We got there in the end. Remember the film?
            Do you fancy an A, Anna?
            It was Jeff Goldblum wasn't it? (Unless there was another film about the same subject?)
            Sorry, off for early lunch and not around at all this afternoon, and mercia did all the hard work, I just finished it off to prove I was paying attention at the back!

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            • mercia
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8920

              great question Mr Flay, I wasn't casting aspersions
              doubtless The Tale of Tsar Saltan contains some lovely music
              Last edited by mercia; 02-03-12, 12:48.

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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                It was Jeff Goldblum wasn't it? (Unless there was another film about the same subject?)
                Sorry, off for early lunch and not around at all this afternoon, and mercia did all the hard work, I just finished it off to prove I was paying attention at the back!
                Wiki says: "The Fly is an opera in two acts by Canadian composer Howard Shore to a libretto by David Henry Hwang. It was commissioned by the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, where it premiered on 2 July 2008, and by Edgar Baitzel, then director of the Los Angeles Opera, where the opera was first performed on 7 September 2008.

                The opera is loosely based on David Cronenberg's 1986 film The Fly which was based on the short story of the same name by George Langelaan."

                The film starred Jeff Goldblum. There again the original film was in 1958, then there was Return of the Fly in 1959 and Curse of the Fly in 1965....



                Fancy an A, mercia?
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  is it me?


                  an A connecting

                  a metamorphosis
                  a last night fantasia
                  another of Karol's myths

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                  • Norfolk Born

                    Originally posted by mercia View Post
                    altogether now ............... the Blight of the Fumblebee ...........
                    Didn't an inebriated BBC presenter once announce it as 'The Bum Of The Flightly Bee'?

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                    • Norfolk Born

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      is it me?


                      an A connecting

                      a metamorphosis
                      a last night fantasia
                      another of Karol's myths
                      Arethusa (one of Britten's Metamorphoses; one of Henry Wood's Seas songs; Szymanowksi's Fontaine d'Arethuse)

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                        Arethusa (one of Britten's Metamorphoses; one of Henry Wood's Seas songs; Szymanowksi's Fontaine d'Arethuse)
                        excellent

                        no confusion there I trust

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                        • Norfolk Born

                          Indeed not. I'll B back shortly!

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                          • Norfolk Born

                            Which 'B' connects offerings from an American songwriter in 1907, an English composer the following year, and another English composer a further 18 years later?

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                            • cloughie
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2011
                              • 22127

                              Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                              Which 'B' connects offerings from an American songwriter in 1907, an English composer the following year, and another English composer a further 18 years later?
                              Does it ring a bell?

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                              • mercia
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8920

                                ......... or is it grizzly ?

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