wiki-illiam #108: q3

[dubdobdee]

3. In what work:

1: does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?
2: is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?
3: does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk?
4: does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate?
5: does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy?
6: does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity?
7: does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived 'affair', followed by uxoricide and then suicide?
8: is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?
9: is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen?
10: does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?

Comments

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Definitely Verdi operas.

1 would probably be Rigoletto as that's the one with the sad clown.
2 looks like Falstaff.
3 is The Force of Destiny. I seem to remember that the Peruvian chap kills someone in a firearms accident at the end of act 1, and it's all downhill from there.
7 is Otello.
8 is A Masked Ball, which is a fictionalised account of the murder of Gustav III of Sweden, transplanted to a Ruritanian setting and lacking the possible gay angle of the real thing.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

A friend observed that 6 somewhat recalls the Exodus narrative; is it therefore Israel in Egitto?

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

...but I now realise that it is more likely to be Aida. Or Nabucco, as that's the one with the famous Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.