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Opera Trivia
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1. Which opera does NOT have a principal character named Elvira?
I puritani
La favorita
Don Giovanni
Ernani
2. What is the name of Cio-Cio-San’s maid in Madama Butterfly?
Yamaha
Kawasaki
Harley
Suzuki
3. Which is an opera composed by Gioacchino Rossini?
Le nozze di Figaro
La mère coupable
Assedio di Firenze
Il barbiere di Siviglia
4. Where does the opera Norma take place?
The outskirts of the city of Rome
Gaul
An unspecified location in Scandinavia
Anglo-Saxon England
5. Which character sings «Nessun dorma» in the final act of Turandot?
Calaf
Rinuccio
Rodolfo
Cavaradossi
6. Which Valkyrie role did Wagner write for a contralto?
Roßweiße
Waltraute
Ortlinde
Schwertleite
7. Which of the following did NOT compose an operatic retelling of the Faust legend?
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust; Busoni: Doktor Faust; Gounod: Faust.
Charles Gounod
Ferruccio Busoni
Hector Berlioz
Robert Schumann
8. John Adams (1947- ) composed which opera?
Samuel Barber composed an opera (arguably better known) of the same name.
Maria Golovin
The Prodigal Son
Antony and Cleopatra
The Ice Break
9. Which musical number can you hear in a standard performance of Carmen?
Escamillo sings «Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre» (The Toreador Song) in Act II.
The Flower Duet
The Toreador Song
The Macarena
The Bell Song
10. In an 1831 Bellini opera, one of the principal characters sings an aria cantabile while she is …
Amina, the main protagonist in La sonnambula is sleepwalking when she sings «Ah, non credea mirarti». Luckily, she wakes up in time to sing the cabaletta «Ah, non giunge».
Asleep
Offstage
Dying
Drunk
11. Carlisle Floyd’s opera Susannah takes place in which U.S. state?
North Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
Oklahoma
12. The Kitchen Boy in Dvořák’s Rusalka is usually performed by …
A treble
A non-speaking actor
A mezzo-soprano
A lyric tenor
13. Which of the following is NOT known to have composed an opera based on one of Shakespeare’s plays?
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Thomas: Hamlet; Verdi: Macbeth, Otello, Falstaff.
Ambroise Thomas
Ottorino Respighi
Giuseppe Verdi
Benjamin Britten
14. In this one-act opera, a troubled woman discloses (during a telephone conversation) her recent suicide attempt.
La voix humaine (Francis Poulenc)
The Telephone (Gian Carlo Menotti)
Night (Lorenzo Ferrero)
Sancta Susanna (Paul Hindemith)
15. Richard Wagner had a son who was also an opera composer. What was the son’s name?
Tristan Wagner
Siegfried Wagner
Sigmund Wagner
Walther Wagner
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