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Re: What a performance!
By: JCFC Date: December 31, 2025, 2:01 pm
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Thanks for the salute, but all that I am currently getting off
the top of my head is dandruff.
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Re: What a performance!
By: jad Date: December 31, 2025, 3:15 pm
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6. La Boheme (and yes I am)
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Re: What a performance!
By: Whistleblower Date: December 31, 2025, 3:19 pm
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[quote author=jad link=topic=2083.msg99422#msg99422
date=1767215746]
6. La Boheme (and yes I am)
[/quote]
Well done. This is an outrageous pun. I don't think I would have
got it had I sat and thought until New Year's Eve 2026
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Re: What a performance!
By: Whistleblower Date: December 31, 2025, 3:20 pm
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It keeps my unseen from JCFC's original List at two
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Re: What a performance!
By: Whistleblower Date: January 2, 2026, 9:48 am
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JCFC, perhaps a further clue
2 They have a reputation of being very strait laced
4 Adam and Eve were expelled from it but in this opera the
"Shakespearean" lovers walk to it
5 They lost their heads rather
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Re: What a performance!
By: JCFC Date: January 2, 2026, 12:37 pm
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Thank you for the much-needed hints, though I am not sure they
will help me sufficiently
I am offering I Puritani for 2. I couldn't get beyond Les
Misérables before.
For 4 I have heard the term Walk to the Paradise Garden
(Delius??) Is it an opera?
Still none the wiser on 5.
With luck jad might come to the rescue again.
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Re: What a performance!
By: Whistleblower Date: January 2, 2026, 1:35 pm
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Well done, I Puritani is correct.
The Walk to the Paradise Garden is from the Delius opera A
Village Romeo and Juliet, a most beautiful and heart breaking
work.
For Question 5. I can think of two operas when nuns feature
prominently. One is the very amusing Le Comte Ory by Rossini
where pretty much everyone on stage ends up dressed as a nun.
The other, the answer, is a much darker piece with no laughs at
all. Written in the middle of the twentieth century by a
Frenchman.
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Re: What a performance!
By: JCFC Date: January 2, 2026, 2:36 pm
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The final sentence above took me to Poulenc, and resorting to
Google led to his Dialogues des Carmélites - of which I had
never heard, and would probably have no wish to become
acquainted with it.
Thank you, though, for extending my education.
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Re: What a performance!
By: Whistleblower Date: January 2, 2026, 3:57 pm
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[quote author=JCFC link=topic=2083.msg99494#msg99494
date=1767386199]
The final sentence above took me to Poulenc, and resorting to
Google led to his Dialogues des Carmélites - of which I had
never heard, and would probably have no wish to become
acquainted with it.
Thank you, though, for extending my education.
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Spot on. It is rather a grim story. There's a 'mad' scene where
a senior nun starts screaming and doubting the existence of God
and at the end the entire Order is guillotined. I have seen it
once. At the end the holy nuns disappeared behind a screen from
where the audience kept seeing the blade drop. Not the most
cheerful of ways in which to spend an evening.
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Re: What a performance!
By: TheThingFromLewes Date: January 2, 2026, 4:41 pm
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[quote author=JCFC link=topic=2083.msg99421#msg99421
date=1767211281]
Thanks for the salute, but all that I am currently getting off
the top of my head is dandruff.
[/quote]
“Head and shoulders” above us all in answering these clues!
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