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« Reply #811 on: 20:42:21, 06-08-2008 » |
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A fair bit of 'fencing' takes place in opera - Il Trovatore for a start, as well as (making a swfit reappearance) La Forza del Destino where Don Carlo finally goads Alvaro into a duel, which, sadly for him, doesn't go too well.
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« Reply #812 on: 20:48:20, 06-08-2008 » |
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The character competing in the Games under his friend's name (Licida) is Megacle in Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade.
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« Reply #813 on: 20:50:01, 06-08-2008 » |
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Well done, Ruth. I rather like Vivaldi operas. Orlando Furioso is a favourite, esp the Spinosi recording. Have you spotted the other opera in which a billiard game is significant? I've never seen it, but I know you have!  |
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« Reply #814 on: 20:59:14, 06-08-2008 » |
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Oh, of course! Why did it take me so long to remember? End of Act 1 of Leoncavallo's La boheme, Barbemuche offers to pay the bohemians' bill if Schaunard can thrash him at billiards, which he duly does!
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
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« Reply #815 on: 21:02:46, 06-08-2008 » |
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 Take a bow, Ruth. I thought I had you snookered there! |
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« Reply #816 on: 21:06:06, 06-08-2008 » |
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Ruth came in right on cue.
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« Reply #817 on: 21:15:29, 06-08-2008 » |
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Ruth came in right on cue.
 Time to give the snooker puns a rest, Reiner! |
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« Reply #818 on: 21:29:03, 06-08-2008 » |
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Time to give the snooker puns a rest, Reiner!
Or even a break! Um, I'll see myself out. |
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« Reply #819 on: 22:59:34, 06-08-2008 » |
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Krenek's Schwergewicht, oder Die Ehre der Nation (Heavyweight or The Glory of The Nation) features Ochsenschwantz, a boxing champion.
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« Reply #820 on: 00:16:11, 07-08-2008 » |
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Vaughan Williams wrote his adorable Hugh the Drover specifically so he could see a bout of fisticuffs on the stage of Covent Garden, and as yet unfulfilled ambition. (Hugh fights his rival, John the Butcher, who loses so in spite accuses Hugh of being a French spy. Hence the alternative title Love in the Stocks.)
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« Reply #822 on: 21:57:46, 17-08-2008 » |
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Gosh that's a teaser for me.
The first sounded a bit like the cabaletta to Rigoletto's aria "Si vendetta, tremenda vendetta." But it appeared to have two male voices rather than Rigoletto and Gilda. I know I know it, but I can't for the life of me say what it is.
The other four are a complete mystery.
I await the outcome with interest.
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« Reply #823 on: 21:58:57, 17-08-2008 » |
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But it appeared to have two male voices rather than Rigoletto and Gilda. I know I know it, but I can't for the life of me say what it is.
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« Reply #824 on: 22:00:40, 17-08-2008 » |
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[hangs head in shame, Googles monasteries who might take atheist novices]
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