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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?

Date: 2013-01-02 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.
Edited Date: 2013-01-02 11:45 pm (UTC)

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