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  • mercia
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    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    Not Drottningholm then?
    <doh> oh yes of course
    in that case wikipedia is a bit confusing as to where the assassination took place

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    • Anna

      Originally posted by Northender View Post
      It's a real place. Why NOT Drottningholm?
      No reason at all it seems! Looks like Ammy's inklings were more powerful than mine!!

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      • Northender

        mercia...I don't think so...it's the musical consequence of the assassination that's relevant, not its location.

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        • Anna

          Originally posted by Northender View Post
          mercia...I don't think so...it's the musical consequence of the assassination that's relevant, not its location.
          Assassination of King Gustav III in 1792 which is the basis of the Verdi opera, Un ballo in maschera and your clue I think said an Italian did very well out of it?
          Where's Ammy gone now, he cracked it, he cannot go walkabout!

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by Northender View Post
            mercia...I don't think so...it's the musical consequence of the assassination that's relevant, not its location.
            oh for sure, I'm not complaining
            I just found myself on the wrong page

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            • Northender

              After the assassination of Gustav II, the Drottiningholm Palace Opera fell into disuse and disrepair, but Verdi used the assassination as the subject of 'Un Ballo in Maschera'. There was an earlier fire (I'll give you that, generous soul that I am!). That just leaves the house's disappointment in relation to another very famous opera.

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by Anna View Post
                Assassination of King Gustav III in 1792 which is the basis of the Verdi opera, Un ballo in maschera and your clue I think said an Italian did very well out of it?
                Where's Ammy gone now, he cracked it, he cannot go walkabout!
                Not my go surely, I just threw out an idea - twas others who put flesh on the skellington innit

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                • Anna

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  Not my go surely, I just threw out an idea - twas others who put flesh on the skellington innit
                  Not really, I said about Verdi, you got the place name. You just have to get the filum and then you can progress. I'm not about to sweep in imperiously and grab your glory!

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                  • amateur51

                    Originally posted by Anna View Post
                    Not really, I said about Verdi, you got the place name. You just have to get the filum and then you can progress. I'm not about to sweep in imperiously and grab your glory!
                    Oh do, do! I'm munching on a half-price pork pie, much more important

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                      I'm munching on a half-price pork pie, much more important
                      Too much information ............

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                      • amateur51

                        Originally posted by Anna View Post
                        Too much information ............
                        Well I didn't manage any lunch, then went shopping & Sainsbury's has a half-price Pork Farms offer - that'll wake Caliban up

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26536

                          Originally posted by Anna View Post
                          Looks like Ammy's inklings were more powerful than mine!!

                          No wonder they are the talk of NW2

                          I set a question some rounds ago to which the answer was Drottningholm. None of the present info was involved, and clearly did not strike me as I researched that question <doh>
                          "...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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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26536

                            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                            Sainsbury's has a half-price Pork Farms offer - that'll wake Caliban up
                            EH?!?!?

                            What do you get for how much?
                            "...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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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26536

                              Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                              a half-price pork pie
                              Ah!

                              (That'll teach me to read these threads backwards...)

                              EDIT (after feverish searching): I can find

                              Sainsbury's Melton Mowbray Large Pork Pie 440g
                              Buy 2 for £3.00


                              That the deal?
                              "...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 Caliban View Post
                                EH?!?!?
                                What do you get for how much?
                                Oh, the eternal question ......

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