Possible Clues:

• Romeo and Oscar in bath with a gloomy singer
• Tabour smashed by churlish minstrel
• Love poet of old
• Stardom regularly attracts university graduate, gloomy old singer
• A medieval singer-songwriter
• In the translated title of a Verdi opera, Manrico is the ____
• Wandering minstrel
• Minstrel excited about entertaining king, sullen
• Mediaeval poet who wrote and sang verse about courtly love
• Poet-singer