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Operas: A very hard quiz (mostly) - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 589 times
539 since last reset
- The average score is 14 of 32
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| She makes cigarettes and flirts (Bizet) | Carmen | 92%
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| Four friends who live in a Paris garret, one dies of tuberculosis (Puccini) | La Boheme | 79%
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| Beethoven's only opera, he changed the name and wrote four overtures (Beethoven) | Fidelio | 77%
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| A french courtesan who is asked to leave her lover by her father. She dies of tuberculosis (Verdi) | La Traviata | 75%
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| Commissioned for the opening of the Suez Canal (Verdi) | Aida | 74%
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| The Faust Legend (Gounod) | Faust | 70%
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| Summertime is the best known tune (Gershwin) | Porgy and Bess | 70%
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| She does a racy dance for her father, then has them bring her the head of John the Baptist. Her father thanks her by having her crushed to death. (Strauss) | Salome | 66%
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| Premiered in Prague, written in a week, with the overture finished the day before the premiere (Mozart) | Don Giovanni | 64%
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| A politician makes a remarkable trip to normalise relations (Adams) | Nixon in China | 61%
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| A girl playing a boy dresses as a girl to avoid being sent to the army (Mozart) | Le nozze di Figaro | 60%
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| The second opera, about the same hapless couple (Monteverdi) | L'Orfeo | 60%
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| He can only be saved from sailing the seas by a woman who shows true love (Wagner) | Der fliegende Holländer | 57%
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| Ask my name and I'm outta here! Oh look there's the 1:30 swan to Brabant (Wagner) | Lohengrin | 53%
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| He goes mad after seeing the ghost of the prince he murdered (Musorgsky) | Boris Godunov | 38%
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| Takes place in a Turkish Harem with an irritable drunken guard (Mozart) | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 37%
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| The Faust Legend (Berlioz) | La Damnation de Faust | 36%
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| He came riding into Europe and pillaged (Verdi) | Attila | 32%
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| A midsummer night's dream (Brtten) | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 31%
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| Opera about a European who travels to North Africa to meet Papatacci (Rossini) | L'italiana in Algeri | 29%
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| Wild Boars and Witches in the Wolf's Glenn on Walpurgisnacht (Weber) | Der Freischütz | 27%
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| The first opera, about a doomed husband and wife (Peri) | Euridice | 26%
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| A midsummer night's dream (Weber) | Oberon | 26%
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| Farcical love in the 19th Century (Donizetti) | Don Pasquale | 21%
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| A midsummer night's dream (Purcell) | The Fairy Queen | 20%
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| The Faust Legend (Boito) | Mefistofile | 19%
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| Not Faust, but son of the devil who dances with dead nuns (Meyerbeer) | Robert le Diable | 16%
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| Farcical love in the 18th century (Cimarosa) | Il Matrimonio Segreto | 12%
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| The first science fiction performed on stage (Haydn) | Il Mondo della Luna | 10%
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| His only opera is about medieval knights in Belgium, like Lohengrin without the swan (Schumann) | Genoveva | 9%
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| Charlton Heston starred in the non-musical remake (Massenet) | Le Cid | 8%
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| Comedy Singspiel about marriage into a medical family (von Dittersdorf) | Doktor und Apotheker | 2%
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