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Idea nicked from [livejournal.com profile] glitterboy1

Opera lyrics. Guess the opera. Simple really.

1. "With tushes far exceeding those that Venus' huntsman slew"

2. "Malo, malo, in an apple tree"

3. "Wait! Don't touch her yet"

4. "His exercise is not with men but killing boys"

5. "Let us devise torments! He killed his mother"

6. "The world is poor and man's a shit"

7. "There are black birds in the world so why not black men too?"

8. "Show us the way to the next whisky bar"

9. " Tender, lovely leaves of my beloved plane"

10. "Hear me! Hear a tender husband's bitter lament"

Date: 2005-08-23 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bopeepsheep.livejournal.com
8. Oh, don't ask why... Threepenny Opera, innit. (Bowie and the Doors make it too easy.)

Date: 2005-08-23 07:48 pm (UTC)
owlfish: (Default)
From: [personal profile] owlfish
7. is probably Otello, not that I've seen it.
3. isn't Rigoletto, is it? Probably not.
8. sounds so familiar, and makes me think of La Traviata, but I thought I'd remember if they used the word "whiskey" in that.

This exercise makes me realize how few recordings I know of operas in English translation. Although I love the half-done translation of 2.

Off the top of my head...

Date: 2005-08-23 08:02 pm (UTC)
ext_6283: Brush the wandering hedgehog by the fire (Default)
From: [identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com
1 is Dido and Aeneas, 7 is The Magic Flute

Date: 2005-08-23 09:42 pm (UTC)
coughingbear: im in ur shipz debauchin ur slothz (Default)
From: [personal profile] coughingbear
2 is Turn of the Screw, Benjamin Britten.

Date: 2005-08-23 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnimmel.livejournal.com
Of those no-one's got yet:
4 is Britten, Peter Grimes.
[livejournal.com profile] purplepiano suggests 3 might be La Boheme.

Date: 2005-08-23 11:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com
Yikes! Sorry, I've only just seen this - I've been faffing with my own one most of the evening.

Of the ones that no one's got yet, #9 is Serse.

Date: 2005-08-24 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damiel.livejournal.com
I only correctly identified 1, 2 and 8 (and should've guessed 4), but this is no fair: you should've posted them in the original language (as well).

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