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    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Roxana was married to Alexander the Great...

    Indeed and she may have murdered .......

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      Originally posted by antongould View Post
      Indeed and she may have murdered .......
      Did someone write an opera about it? I can't find one save that Mozart is supposed to have planned one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_et_Roxane (the artist of the painting on that page should have sacked his agent...)
      "...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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        a-ha! Roxane may have murdered Parysatis, which is the name of an opera

        trez skolarly this question
        Last edited by mercia; 06-12-12, 11:15.

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          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          a-ha! Roxane may have murdered Parysatis, which is the name of an opera

          trez skolarly this question

          You think?

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            so Saint-Saens's Henry VIII, Parysatis and ........... something Shakespearean which eludes me at the moment

            EDIT - Death of Ophelia ?

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              Originally posted by mercia View Post
              so Saint-Saens's Henry VIII, Parysatis and ........... something Shakespearean which eludes me at the moment

              EDIT - Death of Ophelia ?

              In 1858 Camille wrote Macbeth for chorus and orchestra ........


              Without question T for you Mercs

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                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                so Saint-Saens's Henry VIII, Parysatis and ........... something Shakespearean which eludes me at the moment

                EDIT - Death of Ophelia ?
                Nice one mercs, I was miles away from solving that...
                "...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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                  T connecting

                  Rilke's Life of the Virgin Mary, a bearded lady, (French) good food




                  three works, one performer

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                    A French bearded lady and M'Lud hasn't got it yet - he must be liquid lunching

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                      Originally posted by antongould View Post
                      A French bearded lady
                      not French I think ............... Turkish


                      EDIT - either way operatic

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                        Originally posted by antongould View Post
                        A French bearded lady and M'Lud hasn't got it yet - he must be liquid lunching
                        Wrong and defamatory!!
                        "...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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                          Originally posted by mercia View Post
                          T connecting

                          Rilke's Life of the Virgin Mary
                          Anything to do with Hindemith's song cycle Das Marienleben? (I cannot see the T connection yet)
                          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            One for Anton:

                            http://www.glenngould.com/us/music/h...-soprano-piano
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              Anything to do with Hindemith's song cycle Das Marienleben?

                              everything to do with that song cycle, in its revised version

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                                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                                a bearded lady
                                any progress with this, raked or otherwise ?

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