bobeche

Know also as a bobeche.

Each arm terminates in a glass bobeche with a circle of pendent crystal prisms.

Finding a match for a broken prism, globe or bobeche, a disk on a candleholder, can be a challenge.

Dr. Joyce Brothers, a regular customer, needed a bobeche, a rim around a candle that catches wax and prevents it from melting on the candle holder.

It is this cast that sang on Sunday night, with Mr. Enders as Bobeche, two other soloists in smaller roles and 13 of the original chorus members from 1963.

"Blaubart," with its cringing courtiers and its crazed King Bobeche inspired by Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator, was widely seen as a none-too-subtle comment on the East German Government.

Still, the famous set pieces, including Bluebeard and Boulotte riding off on their fake horses to Bobeche's castle and Bluebeard's wives marching up from their crypt to freedom, have an irresistible charm.

Meanwhile, Fleurette, a high-spirited flower seller, learns that she is in fact the daughter of the king, Bobeche, which is convenient, since Saphir, the handsome shepherd she adores, turns out to be a prince in disguise.