Name Dropping #18: Opera Composers

Each hint is the beginning of the name of a major opera composer. Match it to their surname by selecting from among the choices given. The Additional Hint displays the composer’s birth year and (if deceased) death year; and the title of one of their best-known operas. Use the Additional Hint to distinguish between composers with the same first name or with similar first names, or just to jog your memory.

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Emmanuel
1841–1894. L'étoile (The Star)
Antonio
1750–1825. Les Danaïdes
Jules
1842–1912. Werther
Gian Carlo
1911–2007. Amahl and the Night Visitors
Arthur
1842–1900. The Pirates of Penzance
Carl Maria
1786–1826. Der Freischütz (The Marksman)
Antonín
1841–1904. Rusalka
Modest
1839–1881. Борис Годунов (Boris Godunov)
Luigi
1760–1842. Médée (Medea)
Gioachino
1792–1868. Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
Pyotr Ilyich
1840–1893. Евгений Онегин (Eugene Onegin)
Samuel
1910–1981. Vanessa
Benjamin
1913–1976. Peter Grimes
Hans Werner
1926–2012. Die Bassariden (The Bassarids)
Nikolai
1844–1908. Царская невеста (The Tsar’s Bride)
Leoš
1854–1928. Jenůfa
Gaspare
1774–1851. La vestale (The Vestal Virgin)
Peter Maxwell
1934–2016. The Martyrdom of St Magnus
Dmitri
1906–1975. Леди Макбет Мценского уезда (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District)
Heinrich
1795–1861. Hans Heiling
Philip
1937–. Einstein on the Beach
Daniel
1782–1871. Fra Diavolo
Michael
1905–1998. The Midsummer Marriage
Giacomo
1791–1864. Les Huguenots
Ludwig
c. 1770–1827. Fidelio
Auber
Barber
Britten
Chabrier
Cherubini
Davies
Dvořák
Glass
Henze
Janáček
Marschner
Massenet
Menotti
Meyerbeer
Mussorgsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
Rossini
Salieri
Shostakovich
Spontini
Sullivan
Tchaikovsky
Tippett
van Beethoven
von Weber
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