(left) silhouette caravanserai
for the Prologue of ‘Arabian Delights’

(right) ‘watercolour’ image for
‘Thalia’ ~ the first part of my
listening guide to the story and music of
Carl Nielsen’s magical score for ‘Aladdin’.

(The first evening of the 1919 production of
Adam Oehlenschlager's drama 'Aladdin ~ or
the Wonderful Lamp', for which Nielsen wrote
the music, was named after ‘Thalia’ the muse
of comedy in classical mythology)

© Neale Osborne, 2025