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« Reply #1050 on: 08:30:18, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 23:34:55, 27-09-2008
Meantime, we are still chasing our other fictional mountaineering composer and his glacial sweetheart, anyone??

This is a stab in the dark, but is it your fav Jonny spielt auf?  I can't find a synopsis on line, and Kobbe is downstairs, but there is a composer in the cast.
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« Reply #1051 on: 08:46:25, 28-09-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 08:30:18, 28-09-2008
This is a stab in the dark, but is it your fav Jonny spielt auf?  I can't find a synopsis on line, and Kobbe is downstairs, but there is a composer in the cast.

Accurately stabbed, Don B Smiley  Although my advocacy of the piece in the past was a bit of a torch in your darkness Smiley

The composer Max is suffering from writer's block, and takes himself on a mountaineering holiday in the alps.  By obscure chance he finds a girl at the top of a crevasse whose derring-do has taken her up, but won't get her down again.  (By way of thanks she later shags a violinist behind Max's back - but that's sopranos all over for you...  Wink )

There's a snippet of the opera on YouTube, although from Act Two (once they are back in the big city):

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3cwH9V_Ff0E
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« Reply #1052 on: 10:27:04, 29-09-2008 »
Rossini's La donna del lago is based on Scott's The Lady of the Lake, where the lago in question in Loch Katrine, and therefore in the Scottish Highlands.

I'm never sure whether the Trossachs are mountains or lakes.  I remember driving up to Loch Katrine through scrubby woodland, and understood we were passing through the Trossachs.

Come to think of it, Trossachs would do as a first name.  Would Mary mind a grandson called Trossachs?
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« Reply #1053 on: 20:20:35, 30-09-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 10:27:04, 29-09-2008
Rossini's La donna del lago is based on Scott's The Lady of the Lake, where the lago in question in Loch Katrine, and therefore in the Scottish Highlands.

Similarly, the fourth act of Verdi's Aroldo (his Stiffelio rewrite) is set on the banks of Loch Lomond.
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« Reply #1054 on: 20:23:32, 30-09-2008 »
Quote from: Il Grande Inquisitor on 20:20:35, 30-09-2008

Similarly, the fourth act of Verdi's Aroldo (his Stiffelio rewrite) is set on the banks of Loch Lomond.

But not the braes?  Wink
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« Reply #1055 on: 20:34:15, 30-09-2008 »
3333 posts!!!

Well done, Reiner! Wink
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