Q41: Castafiore-Rastapopoulos connections

- In The Red Sea Sharks, Castafiore & Rastapopoulos are put together aboard the Sheherazade
- both Bianca & Roberto are Italian first names
- in The Emerald, Bianca says she was engaged to di Gorgonzola (i.e. Rastapopoulos) by the newspapers.
- in Gounod's Faust* opera, their avatars 'Margarita' (see her dress & her song) and 'Mephistopheles' (see his disguise) are also put together.

Where else is the diva connected with the marquis?

The clue is some external* data are required to answer the question, as well as internal data of course.

Might be time to give the answer now?
Gorgonzola -the place of which Rastapopoulos is the marquis- lies some miles East from Milan -the city with the famous 'Scala', in which the Milanese 'Nightingale' sings, by the end of 'The Castafiore Emerald'.

see http://www.viamichelin.fr/viamichelin/fra/tpl/hme/MaHomePage.htm

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Ed