Alphabet associations - I

[subcontrabass]

Oh! I was convinced that my first line was correct ("New Theatre"/"Nuovo Teatro")

The relevant Teatro Nuovo is in Naples. The relevant year is 1853.

[subcontrabass]

I think you might be on to it, cloughie. Violetta fits with a marina too.

Make sure you are looking for the musical version.

[cloughie]

I think you might be on to it, cloughie. Violetta fits with a marina too.

Hmm, nice day for an ice cream. Good idea

Playing Violetta is the rising-star soprano Marina Poplavskaya
The Lady of the Camellias . with the female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, renamed Violetta
Valéry.
Was this performed at the New Theatre Cardiff?

[subcontrabass]

Playing Violetta is the rising-star soprano Marina Poplavskaya
The Lady of the Camellias . with the female protagonist, Marguerite Gautier, renamed Violetta
Valéry.
Was this performed at the New Theatre Cardiff?

You should be looking for three distinct Violettas. The third is the heroine of La Traviata. The others are not connected.

[Flay]

Did one have a sympathetic string? Did Handel used it in Orlando (1733)?

[subcontrabass]

Did one have a sympathetic string? Did Handel used it in Orlando (1733)?

More than one sympathetic string according to Grove.

[cloughie]

Is Twelfth night involved?

[subcontrabass]

Is Twelfth night involved?

No. From the additional clue that I gave a simple internet search should provide you with the answer.

[Flay]

Shame, I was thinking Swan Theatre which is newly renovated, and performing 12th night just now

[Anna]

Is it: premiere of Violetta, by Saverio Mercadante, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1853

[cloughie]

Is it: premiere of Violetta, by Saverio Mercadante, Teatro Nuovo, Napes, 1853

I could stick my neck out and suggest that the Napes should have an 'l'

[subcontrabass]

Is it: premiere of Violetta, by Saverio Mercadante, Teatro Nuovo, Naples, 1853

I think that completes the set. Cloughie seems to have done most towards this so I think he gets the honour of W.

[Anna]

I could stick my neck out and suggest that the Napes should have an 'l'

Very good cloughie! (Typo now corrected), that was a difficult puzzle!

[mercia]

oh and I was sure Pietro Castrucci came into it somewhere <doh>

[Anna]

oh and I was sure Pietro Castrucci came into it somewhere <doh>

You did indeed say that he invented the marina (at 04.15 this morning!)