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Oops the Destroyer - not actually evil just very clumsy Posted Nov 10, 2008
does he turn out to be a cross dressing female ?
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 10, 2008
No it isn't name the opera - the opera IS Prince Igor.
B - 
I have every faith in you.
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 10, 2008
It is not a person or an animal ~ You're going to need some musical knowledge to get this one
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minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! Posted Nov 10, 2008
How is Prince Igor better known ?
Prince Igor IS the Oprea.
So we are looking for an alternate name for the opera, no?
mini
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 10, 2008
Not for the opera - but for the music
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 10, 2008
Nope. (He said sharply and cuttingly)
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Nov 10, 2008
unfinished
as in unfinished symphony etc.
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Yarreau Posted Nov 10, 2008
Eugen Onegin? But that's a different opera, right?
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Milla, h2g2 Operations Posted Nov 10, 2008
Sissel Kyrkjebö did a piece with a rapper some years ago, where she did the theme from Prince Igor as a background to the male rapper. There was a space environment, she wasn't in a space suit, but I think the rapper was....
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Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... Posted Nov 10, 2008
I believe Rimsky-Korsakov called his "bit" Polovetsian Dances - does that have anything to do with it?
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Oops the Destroyer - not actually evil just very clumsy Posted Nov 10, 2008
Did Emmerson Lake and Palmer nick any of it?
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 15, 2008
well I'll give Feisor 3 points there.
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 15, 2008
with regard to nicking it, the thieves were Robert Wright and George Forrest.
Fate you might say.
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McKay The Disorganised Posted Nov 23, 2008
OK - Prince Igor is better known as "Stranger in Paradise" The music for Kismet is lifted wholesale from Prince Igor.
I'll sort out the points.
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- 46: minichessemouse - Ahoy there me barnacle! (Nov 10, 2008)
- 47: McKay The Disorganised (Nov 10, 2008)
- 48: Taff Agent of kaos (Nov 10, 2008)
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- 50: Taff Agent of kaos (Nov 10, 2008)
- 51: McKay The Disorganised (Nov 10, 2008)
- 52: Yarreau (Nov 10, 2008)
- 53: Milla, h2g2 Operations (Nov 10, 2008)
- 54: Yarreau (Nov 10, 2008)
- 55: Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ... (Nov 10, 2008)
- 56: Taff Agent of kaos (Nov 10, 2008)
- 57: Oops the Destroyer - not actually evil just very clumsy (Nov 10, 2008)
- 58: McKay The Disorganised (Nov 15, 2008)
- 59: McKay The Disorganised (Nov 15, 2008)
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