Opera Flashcards
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This title character is sent to fetch Isolde, his uncle King Mark’s intended bride
Tristan
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| She’s a slave to Amneris, an Egyptian princess
Aida
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Alban Berg’s 1937 opera is a real doozy, or a real this, the double-talk name of its title character
Lulu
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Gingerbread figures turn back into boys & girls when the witch’s spell is broken in this opera
Hansel and Gretel
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| (<a>Alex gives the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.</a>) The Met’s production “Enchanted Island” is a version of “The Tempest”, & the costume I’m wearing belongs to this magician, who rules the island
Prospero
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The “Hexenritt”, or “Witches’ Ride”, is sung in Act III of this 1893 fairy tale opera
Hansel and Gretel
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” ends with the marriage of Henry VIII (aka Enrico) to this woman
Jane Seymour
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “La boheme” the poet Rodolfo falls in love with this seamstress who suffers from tuberculosis
Mimi
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Carl Maria von Weber’s 1826 opera about this king of the fairies was subtitled “or, the Elf King’s Oath”
Oberon
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1961, as Venus in “Tannhauser”, Grace Bumbry became the first black diva to sing at this Wagner festival
Bayreuth
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Twilight of the Gods” is the last part of this composer’s “Ring” cycle
Wagner
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In an opera based on a fairy tale, this title girl gives the prince one of a pair of bracelets before leaving the ball
Cinderella
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Coppelius & Dr. Miracle appear in “The Tales of” him
Hoffmann
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Beethoven opera was based on a play called “Leonore”
Fidelio
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Bellini title gal who’s high priestess of a Druid temple in Gaul
Norma
$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title character of this opera addresses his son in the aria “Sois immobile” (“hold yourself still”)
William Tell
$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| The aria “Pour mon ame” by Donizetti includes 9 of these; a few tenors have earned the nickname “King of” them
high Cs
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Maid of Pskov”, this notorious 16th c. czar destroys the city of Novgorod
Ivan (the Terrible)
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “Maria Stuarda”, this queen signs Mary Stuart’s death warrant after being called a bastard
Queen Elizabeth I
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| On Feb. 26, 1776 a fire destroyed Milan’s Royal Ducal Theatre; this replaced it
La Scala di Milano
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Gian Carlo Menotti TV opera features a crippled boy, his mother & 3 kings: Kaspar, Melchior & Balthazar
Amahl and the Night Visitors
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Johann Strauss opera has appeared in several English versions, including “Night Birds” & “Rosalinda”
Die Fledermaus
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Rossini opera this Swiss patriot is forced to shoot an apple placed on his son Jemmy’s head
William Tell
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This opera ends with the title madam committing hara-kiri
Madame Butterfly