The Georges Bizet Quiz

How much do you know about this French legend?

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Last updated: April 21, 2021

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Bizet was born in this French city in 1838	Paris
Bizet's mother Aimée played this instrument	Piano
Childhood friend of Bizet, composer of Samson and Delilah	Camille Saint-Saëns
Orientalist opera set on the Sri Lankan coast	The Pearl Fishers
Despite the above's initially lukewarm reception, this composer (author of the Symphonie fantastique) praised it	Hector Berlioz
Bizet's wife, a French salonnière	Geneviève Halévy
The above inspired several characters in this author's novel In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust
Bizet's illegitimate son, press director of Le Temps and an Officer of the Legion of Honour	Jean Reiter
Bizet's only legitimate child, a physician and businessman	Jacques Bizet
Bizet served in the National Guard during this war	Franco-Prussian War
He temporarily left Paris after the establishment of this political entity	Paris Commune
Alphonse Daudet's play to which Bizet wrote incidental music, nowadays often played separately in the form of two suites	L'Arlésienne
One act opéra comique about a slave-girl in Cairo	Djamileh
Country where Bizet's most famous opera, Carmen, is set	Spain
Job of the heroine's final lover	Bullfighter
This composer, Bizet's mentor, accused Bizet of plagiarism after Carmen's premiere	Charles Gounod
This German philosopher claimed to know Carmen by heart	Friedrich Nietzsche
Carmen is said to have anticipated this post-Romantic operatic movement, Italian for "realism"	Verismo
Bizet died of this only three months after Carmen's premiere, convinced of the opera's failure	Heart attack
Bizet's age at death (accepted margin of error 2 years)	36