Il Monasterio Segreto (The Turkish Bedstead) is an an opera written by Giacomo Puccini and based on the early life of Hamish Runcet (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 105).
Inspiration[]
Italian for “the Secret Monastery”[1], and, of course, pure Bellairsian fiction.
Il Matrimonio Segreto is a similarly-named obscure opera by an even more obscure composer, Domenico Cimarosa[2].
Bedstead: the framework that supports a bed[3].
References[]
- ↑ Wiktionary: Monasterio
- ↑ Wikipedia: Il matrimonio segreto
- ↑ Wiktionary: Bedstead