David Rose meets Richard Strauss

[Leinster Lass]

One of my ever-helpful English cousins has come up with a cunning plan, the aim of which is to encourage more people to give opera a try by providing alternative titles in the hope that this might broaden the appeal of this art form. Slightly shocked as I was by his suggestion that I start the ball rolling by suggesting 'Salome, or The Stripper', I offer a couple of hopefully more tasteful alternatives:
'Siegfried, or The Pony Trekker's Guide To The Rhine'
'Woyzeck, or Could I Have A Pea Please, Bob?' (This apparently refers to a children's TV quiz called 'Blockbusters')

[Roslynmuse]

Oh dear, I think I'm going to forever imagine John the Baptist in Morecambe and Wise's refrigerator now rather than in that ominous cistern...

Pelleas et Melisande, or, Don't ask me, I'm lost too.

[Leinster Lass]

'Tosca, or Never Trust The Chief Of Police (or Our Friend In The North)'

[Pulcinella]

Don Giovanni, or, I've got a little list (with apologies to G&S!)

[cloughie]

Don Giovanni, or, I've got a little list (with apologies to G&S!)

La Traviata - The Flower Lady

[Roslynmuse]

Les mamelles de Tiresias - Up, up and away!

(NB colleagues in real life call this one something far worse...)

[Pulcinella]

Billy Budd, or, The stammerer's curse.

King Priam, or, Please stop hectoring.

[Serial_Apologist]

L'enfant et les sortilèges, or did Nanny put laudanum in the Farex?