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(1) an opera by a composer better known as a writer;
(2) an opera with a moonsong;
(3) the music for a ballet with a different spelling.
Anthony Burgess wrote an opera (well, an operetta) based on James Joyce's Ulysses.
Can't find a moonsong opera - one thinks of the Monteverdi Ritorno... Is there a moon thing going on there?
Nor can I find a differently-spelt ballet.
Should I stop digging?
"...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..."
Anthony Burgess wrote an opera (well, an operetta) based on James Joyce's Ulysses.
Can't find a moonsong opera - one thinks of the Monteverdi Ritorno... Is there a moon thing going on there?
Nor can I find a differently-spelt ballet.
Should I stop digging?
I think there is only one opera well known for a moonsong, and it is nothing to do with Ulysses.
I think there is only one opera well known for a moonsong, and it is nothing to do with Ulysses.
Certainly, Rusalka... But I thought you might have found another, more abstruse or at least less well-known.
So focus on Rusalka?
"...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..."
That is a good starting point. Look for its origins.
Ah ha!
Undine - Fouquet's novella lay partly behind Rusalka which included 'Song to the Moon'
ETA Hoffman wrote Undine, an opera
Henze wrote the music for Ashton's ballet Ondine...
"...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..."
Undine - Fouquet's novella lay partly behind Rusalka which included 'Song to the Moon'
ETA Hoffman wrote Undine, an opera
Henze wrote the music for Ashton's ballet Ondine...
"...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..."
Oh, well done, Caliban. I was convinced that you were on the right track with Ulysses.
Cheers RM
Here's a V.
What links the Masses with Scottish dedication and maybe a West-coast girl?
"...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..."
Victoria composed masses; Mendelssohn's 3rd symphony was dedicated to Queen Victoria. Might the west coast be a reference to the principal city on Vancouver Island? EDIT:
Victoria Beckham presumably spends some of the year somewhere in or near LA...
Victoria composed masses; Mendelssohn's 3rd symphony was dedicated to Queen Victoria. Might the west coast be a reference to the principal city on Vancouver Island? EDIT:
Victoria Beckham presumably spends some of the year somewhere in or near LA...
Victoria: quite correct
First two elements spot on.
Third: your answers are not the ones on the card and I would never drag Mrs B into these hallowed precincts
The Victoria on the card only sounds as if she is a West-coast girl...
"...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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