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« Reply #705 on: 11:11:00, 28-07-2008 » |
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Pinkerton offers Sharpless "milk punch or whiskey" in Act 1 of Madama Butterfly.
What is milk punch?
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« Reply #706 on: 11:37:26, 28-07-2008 » |
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Wikipedia has this to offer on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_punchI have to say, I never previously gave it any thought... I wonder how he mixed all that when he's only just arrived in his new Japanese house?  A hip-flask of whisky I can understand and approve of... but a complete barman's cocktail-mixing service in his waistcoat pocket? |
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« Reply #707 on: 15:16:37, 28-07-2008 » |
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Some excellent suggestions for quenching thirst so far! Any more examples?
Which servant prepares chocolate?
At which party is coffee and hot chocolate served?
Who mentions a bottle of sherry, thirty flagons of sack and later calls for mulled wine?
Whose interrupted supper includes a Spanish wine?
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« Reply #708 on: 15:40:42, 28-07-2008 » |
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Which servant prepares chocolate? Despina
At which party is coffee and hot chocolate served?
Who mentions a bottle of sherry, thirty flagons of sack and later calls for mulled wine? Falstaff
Whose interrupted supper includes a Spanish wine? Scarpia's
I'm stuck on the second one...
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« Reply #709 on: 15:46:32, 28-07-2008 » |
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At which party is coffee and hot chocolate served? (Mozart ) Where is whisky served to accompany a card game? Who has bought Bordeaux amongst other goodies with his hard-earned money? Who pours water from a flagon into a goblet remarking on its bitter taste (with good reason)? |
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« Reply #710 on: 15:51:31, 28-07-2008 » |
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Who has bought Bordeaux amongst other goodies with his hard-earned money?
One sucker who buys a bottle of Bordeaux and knocks it all back at one go is Nemorino, under the impression it is L'elisir d'amore. But the mention other goodies makes my think it isn't him. Is this one of Rodolfo's chums in La boheme? Who pours water from a flagon into goblet remarking on its bitter taste (with good reason)?
Poor old Simone Boccanegra. He is being poisoned. |
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« Reply #711 on: 15:52:36, 28-07-2008 » |
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One sucker who buys a bottle of Bordeaux and knocks it all back at one go is Nemorino, under the impression it is L'elisir d'amore. But the mention other goodies makes my think it isn't him. Is this one of Rodolfo's chums in La boheme?
Yep, it's Schaunard! (Had forgotten about poor old Nemorino!) And yes, Boccanegra is being poisoned. |
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« Reply #712 on: 15:56:14, 28-07-2008 » |
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Is the whiskey in La fanciulla del West?
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« Reply #713 on: 15:56:50, 28-07-2008 » |
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Is the whiskey in La fanciulla del West?
Yes, it's being served in the Polka Saloon at the beginning of the opera. |
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« Reply #714 on: 15:57:33, 28-07-2008 » |
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Where is whisky served to accompany a card game?
Another work not on my must-get-to-know-and-love list is La fanciulla del West Is this the gambling scene where Minnie is playing poker to save the wounded tenor in the attic? (I have only seen it sent up by La Gran Scena Opera Company at the Bloomsbury.) I could make a shot at the Mozart coffee, but I will leave it to some else. Edit: Just seen Ruth. |
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« Reply #715 on: 16:02:08, 28-07-2008 » |
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At which party is coffee and hot chocolate served?
Who sings about the joys of sparkling wine, bubbling in the glass?
Who sings at an inn, beneath the sign of Bacchus sitting astride a barrel, about the joys of beer or wine 'may my glass ever be full'?
Where is wine from Syracuse served to deadly effect?
Who is made drunk with wine? (Two characters in two different operas spring to mind...Edit: Reiner's just named Osmin! )
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« Reply #716 on: 16:02:54, 28-07-2008 » |
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TALES OF HOFFMANN has a great deal of toping involved  The opening chorus are "the spirits of wines and beers"; a punch-bowl is brought immediately after the "Kleinzack" song; the students in the tavern call for more beer. BARTERED BRIDE has a beer-drinking chorus at the opening of Act II. Dolokhov and Anatole are drinking vodka in W&P while waiting for the arrival of Balaga the Demon Coachman. Osmin is tempted to a wee drinky by Pedrillo ("But what if Allah should see?"), but I'm not sure whether we ever find out what's in his bottle? And doesn't SICILIAN VESPERS open with a chorus of drunken soldiers demanding "more wine! more wine!"? The ENO production and translation (with that bloody black staircase) is so grimly etched in my mind that I can't remember the Italian original at all. And just to keep up an old tradition... Stephen Storace's THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE has a drinking-song set in a Heurige-tavern at the end of Act II, "From the vine we'll pluck our laurels!". (Actually it's one of SS's less successful numbers in the piece). |
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« Reply #717 on: 16:06:32, 28-07-2008 » |
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And doesn't SICILIAN VESPERS open with a chorus of drunken soldiers demanding "more wine! more wine!"? The ENO production and translation (with that bloody black staircase) is so grimly etched in my mind that I can't remember the Italian original at all. I don't know - but Ernani certainly does. Well, actually they're brigands on that occasion, rather than soldiers. |
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« Reply #718 on: 16:08:21, 28-07-2008 » |
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Oh... and there are at least three other drinking songs in Verdi that I can think of - in Traviata, Macbeth and Otello.
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« Reply #719 on: 16:09:40, 28-07-2008 » |
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Yes, getting Cassio drunk was the other one I was thinking of along with Osmin. At which party is coffee and hot chocolate served? (Mozart...and it's a wedding party) Who sings about the joys of sparkling wine, bubbling in the glass? Who sings at an inn, beneath the sign of Bacchus sitting astride a barrel, about the joys of beer or wine 'may my glass ever be full'? Where is wine from Syracuse served to deadly effect? And just to keep up an old tradition... Stephen Storace's THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE has a drinking-song set in a Heurige-tavern at the end of Act II, "From the vine we'll pluck our laurels!". (Actually it's one of SS's less successful numbers in the piece).
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