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
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Don Jose is bewitched by this title gypsy girl
Carmen
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This title slave & Pharaoh’s daughter Amneris are both in love with Radames
Aida
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Count Almaviva attempts to thwart this opera’s title marriage
The Marriage of Figaro
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Canterbury Pilgrims”, an 1884 opera, is based on a work by him
Geoffrey Chaucer
$4000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Several operas based on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” are named for this Gypsy girl
Esméralda
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a fairy tale Rossini opera, Angelina is called this
Cinderella (La Cenerentola)
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Pagliacci” is almost always performed with this 1-act Mascagni opera, “Cav” for short
Cavalleria rusticana
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Tom Rakewell is lured into a life of vice in this 1951 opera based on a series of engravings by William Hogarth
The Rake’s Progress
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Mefistofele” is based on this 1808 literary work
Faust
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The Duke of Mantua’s “La donna e mobile” is from this opera
Rigoletto
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 2008 opera is based partly on a 1986 David Cronenberg film
The Fly
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Beethoven opera, Leonore disguises herself as this boy
Fidelio
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Eva will wed the contest winner in “Die” this “von Nurnberg”
Meistersinger
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In an 1816 opera, he’s the Barber of Seville
Figaro
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Donizetti’s operas include “Anna Bolena” & “Lucrezia” this
Borgia
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Around the same time, Leoncavallo & this man both wrote operas based on the novel “Scenes de la vie de boheme”
(Giacomo) Puccini
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Salome”, this composer’s first successful opera, was banned in Boston in 1923
Richard Strauss
$3000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A Norwegian sea captain is a character in this 1843 opera
The Flying Dutchman
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| It’s the capital city where “Carmen” composer Georges Bizet was born in 1838
Paris
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A flop when it debuted in 1904, this Puccini opera set in Nagasaki later became one of the best-loved operas
Madame Butterfly
$3000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| George Gershwin personally asked Howard University voice professor Todd Duncan to originate this title role
Porgy
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Inspired by his love for a friend’s wife, Wagner composed this opera about a pair of medieval lovers
Tristan and Isolde
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer of “Cavalleria Rusticana” wrote “Il Piccolo Marat”, a sadly neglected opera about the Reign of Terror
Mascagni
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Rodolfo burns his poems to keep the stove going in act I of this Puccini work
La Boheme
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Handel’s “Berenice, Queen of Egypt” took a hiatus from the stage from the first part of this century to 1985
the 18th century
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Poignant, given Pagliaccio’s profession, the line “Ridi Pagliaccio” means do this, Pagliaccio
laugh
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Paisiello opera about a Spaniard was “snipped” out of the repertoire by Rossini’s more popular version
The Barber of Seville
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| It’s the “mirthful” opera house that premiered “Carmen”, or the French term for the type of opera “Carmen” is
Opera comique
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Susanna the maid is the bride in this Mozart opera
The Marriage of Figaro
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The name of this Verdi opera means “The Fallen Woman”
La Traviata
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Puccini’s last opera, it’s set in Peking
Turandot
$4000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 1892 Leoncavallo work has a play within the opera
Pagliacci
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “La Bisbetica Dominata” was based on this Shakespeare play
The Taming of the Shrew
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “Cavalleria Rusticana”, an ear gets bitten when Alfio challenges Turiddu to their fateful one of these
a duel
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Gian Carlo Menotti’s 1963 opera “Labyrinth” was written for this medium
television
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Rigoletto” prompted Rossini to say that at last he recognized this compser’s genius
Verdi
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Count Bitowski leads the company in praise of the waltz in “The Viennese Spirit” by this composer
Strauss (the Younger)
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “precious” first opera in the “Ring” cycle runs about 90 minutes shorter than any of the other 3
Das Rheingold
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title libertine of this 1787 Mozart opera seduces women in 17th century Seville
Don Giovanni
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title of this Puccini opera deals with a painter (Marcello), a poet (Rodolfo) & a philosopher (Colline)
La bohème
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The Franco-Prussian war delayed this Verdi opera’s premiere: scenery couldn’t leave besieged Paris for Cairo
Aida
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Verdi title character is an Ethiopian slave to Pharaoh’s daughter
Aida
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| His opera “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” was inspired by Hans Sachs, who wrote more than 4,200 Meisterlieder
Wagner
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Heard <a>here</a> in a Gluck opera, this mythological character is lamenting the loss of his beloved
Orpheus
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In operas by Massenet & Puccini, it’s the given name of Mlle. Lescaut
Manon
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In opera, that “dum-dee-dee-dee-dum” every time the merry carpenter shows up is called one of these
a leitmotif (a motif accepted)
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Tenor Leo Slezak covered a staging mistake in “Lohengrin” by ad-libbing, “What time is the next” this graceful bird
swan
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| His new “Tosca” was the toasta Roma in 1900
Puccini
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Verdi’s first comic opera was a flop; it was 50 years before he wrote his second, about this Shakespeare character
Falstaff
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Mozart opera opens with the title character on the prowl for Donna Anna
Don Giovanni
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Fragments of the “Ode to Joy” appear in the libretto of this 1805 opera, the composer’s only one
Fidelio
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Puccini included a passage from “The Star-Spangled Banner” in one of Pinkerton’s numbers in this opera
Madame Butterfly
$3000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A highlight of this tragic opera set in Palestine is the “Dance of the Seven Veils”
Salome
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He’s Verdi’s title hunchbacked court jester
Rigoletto
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Act I of “La boheme”, this poet keeps a fire burning in the chilly attic by sacrificing his manuscript
Rodolfo
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Richard Strauss opera title, the name of this daughter of Minos precedes “auf Naxos”
Ariadne
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this “airborne” Wagner work includes a tenor aria about a sailor returning to his sweetheart
The Flying Dutchman
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1782 Mozart married Constanze & made Constanze the harem-bound heroine of “The Abduction from” here
the Seraglio
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Richard Strauss opera, the princess sends one of these to her cavalier–hence the title
a rose
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Cleopatra (soprano) & Curio (bass) appear in Handel’s opera about this man (contralto) in Egypt
Julius Caesar
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote the ragtime opera “A Guest of Honor”
(Scott) Joplin
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Verdi opera was first performed on Dec. 24, 1871, in Cairo
Aida
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Puccini opera, he marries then abandons Cio-Cio-San
Pinkerton
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Wagner opera, this title knight tells Elsa he’ll marry her so long as she never asks his identity
Lohengrin
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 1893 opera based on a children’s tale is set partly in the woods of Ilsenstein
Hansel and Gretel
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A 1913 opera about this queen of Ithaca is based on an episode from “The Odyssey”
Penelope
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Eva has to marry the winner of a singing contest in Nuremberg in this comic opera by Wagner
Die Meistersinger (von Nürnburg)
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 2004 the Royal Opera dropped soprano Deborah Voigt from “Ariadne Auf Naxos” for this reason
she was too heavy
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The name of this comic opera by Mozart is sometimes translated as “So Do They All”
Cosi Fan Tutte
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title role in “Boris Godunov” is for a singer in this vocal range
bass
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Peter Cornelius’ opera “The Barber of Baghdad” was based on a tale in this collection
Arabian Nights
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Sir Arthur Sullivan’s “Ivanhoe”, “Ho, Jolly Jenkin” is an aria for this Friar
Friar Tuck
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Wagner didn’t want “Parsifal” performed outside of this city that now holds Wagner festivals
Bayreuth
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| His “Elecktra” in 1908 may have been electric, but it was his “Salome” 3 years earlier that was scandalous
Richard Strauss
$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| The libretto for “William Tell” was in this language, the native tongue of neither the composer, Rossini, nor the subject
French
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| For the gift of youth, this philosopher & alchemist pledges his soul to Mephistopheles
Faust
$1800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this opera opens at Pinkerton’s house in Nagasaki
Madame Butterfly
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Beethoven opera was originally titled “Leonore”
Fidelio
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Jacques Offenbach died on Oct. 5, 1880, 4 months before his “Tales of” this poet was first produced
Hoffmann
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Richard Wagner opera, this knight in shining armor arrives on a boat drawn by a swan
Lohengrin
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera
Carmen
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Like many of his works, this composer’s “Tannhauser” is based on Germanic legends
(Richard) Wagner
$2500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Mozart opera in which the count tries to thwart & postpone his valet’s wedding
The Marriage of Figaro
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Musetta has her very own waltz in Act II of this Puccini opera
La boheme
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| At 35 he decided for the first time to sit right down & write himself an opera; he produced “Fidelio”
(Ludwig van) Beethoven
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Figaro is the title character of this 1816 Rossini opera
The Barber of Seville
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Mimi in “La boheme” suffers & dies from this disease
consumption
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This title character performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for Herod in an opera by Richard Strauss
Salome
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Esmeralda”, an 1840s opera, is based on a work by this “Miserable” author
Victor Hugo
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Russian composer’s “The Love for Three Oranges” is an opera within an opera about a melancholy prince
Sergei Prokofiev
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Wagner’s “Die Walkure”, she was Wotan’s favorite of the Valkyrie warriors
Brunhilde
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Menotti opera debuted on the New York stage on April 9, 1952, 4 months after it was televised
Amahl and the Night Visitors
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The first of Verdi’s trilogy of romantic operas, it was followed by “Il Trovatore” & “La Traviata”
Rigoletto
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Carmen” is set in this city around 1820
Seville
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Puccini title heroine’s first name is Floria
Tosca
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Marriage of” this servant of Count Almaviva was once banned in France lest it incite the lower classes to revolt
Figaro
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Much of this Puccini opera takes place in a cafe in Paris’ Latin Quarter
La boheme
$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1928 he & Bertolt Brecht “jazzed” up “The Beggar’s Opera” to create “The Threepenny Opera”
Kurt Weill
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Humperdinck opera developed from verses written by his sister which were based on a Grimm fairy tale
Hansel and Gretel
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Johann Strauss operetta has appeared in an English version titled “Night Birds”
Die Fledermaus
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The world’s 5 largest opera houses are in the U.S., with this one in NYC the largest at a capacity of 4,065
Metropolitan Opera House
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act II, Scene 2 of this opera begins with the song “Gloria All’ Egitto e Ad Iside”, or “Glory to Egypt and to Isis”
Aida
$4000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Mozart opera about an insatiable lover is also known as “The Reprobate Punished”
Don Giovanni
$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A highlight of Enrico Caruso’s career was his rendition of the aria “Vesti la Giubba” in this Leoncavallo opera
Pagliacci
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “La boheme”, the sickly Mimi dies in the arms of her lover, this poet
Rodolfo
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Henry Purcell wrote operas about “The Faery” one & “The Indian” one
Queen
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1829, after his move to Paris, this Italian composer wrote “William Tell”
Gioachino Rossini
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Lorenzo Da Ponte supplied composers with over 40 librettos, including “Cosi fan tutte” for this man
W.A. Mozart
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He was in his 70s when he composed “Otello” in 1887 & “Falstaff” in 1893
Giuseppe Verdi
$1500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| After his 1711 opera “Rinaldo” made his name, he immediately moved from Hanover to England
G.F. Handel
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Characters in this Bizet opera include a toreador, a gypsy girl & cigarette factory girls
Carmen
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Austrian composer didn’t complete his operas “Adrast” & “Sakuntala”; he left a symphony “unfinished”, too
Franz Schubert
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Offenbach’s “Orphee aux Enfers”, Orpheus goes to Hades to retrieve this woman, his cheatin’ wife
Eurydice
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Verdi’s “Falstaff” is based on Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” plays & this Shakespeare comedy
The Merry Wives of Windsor
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A comic opera by Strauss based on an incident from his marriage, or a short orchestral piece played between scenes
Intermezzo
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Its 1871 premiere in Cairo was delayed due to the Franco-Prussian War
“Aida”
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This city on the Adriatic is the setting for “La Gioconda”
Venice
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| 1850 Wagner opera in which you’d hear “Farewell, farewell, my beloved swan”
“Lohengrin”
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Puccini opera, this prima donna is pursued by the evil Scarpia, chief of the Roman police
“Tosca”
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The name of this short Pietro Mascagni opera translates to “Rustic Chivalry”
“Cavalleria rusticana”
$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| A 1920s discovery proved that some of the instruments used in this 1871 opera were historically accurate
"Aida"
$100 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Master Peter’s Puppet Show” – a puppet opera (?!) – is based on a passage from this Cervantes work
“Don Quixote”
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The composition of this German’s “Ring” cycle spanned over 20 years
Richard Wagner
$300 ||| Category: OPERA ||| An Ethiopian slave girl is torn between love & patriotism in the Egypt of the Pharaohs in this Verdi opera
“Aida”
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Operas by this composer include “Cosi Fan Tutte” & “The Magic Flute”
W.A. Mozart
$500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| It’s the English title of the opera “I Pagliacci” & the name of a ballet that juxtaposes terror & buffoonery
“The Clowns”
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Consumed with guilt over her affair with Boris, the heroine of “Katya Kabanova” drowns herself in this Russian river
Volga
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Ferenc Erkel’s 1844 work “Hunyady Laszlo” is one of this country’s most famous operas
Hungary
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Minnie runs a saloon in a California mining camp in this Italian composer’s opera “The Girl of the Golden West”
Giacomo Puccini
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Die Harmonie der Welt” explores the life of this astronomer & his musical theories of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The heroine of this Czech composer’s 1881 opera “Libuse” is the queen of Bohemia
Bedrich Smetana
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Rossini’s “William Tell” Overture was used as the theme for this classic TV western
The Lone Ranger
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In this opera based on a Grimm fairy tale, the witch lures 2 kids into her gingerbread house
Hansel and Gretel
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” takes place in the early 1900s in this country
Japan
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Ambroise Thomas’ opera about this man differs from Shakespeare’s play; in the opera, he becomes king of Denmark
Hamlet
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer’s “Rigoletto” is based on Victor Hugo’s play “Le Roi S’Amuse” (“The King Amuses Himself”)
Giuseppe Verdi
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE): This 1865 opera named for 2 legendary lovers contains the passage heard here
Tristan And Isolde
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Concepcion’s lovers hide inside clocks in her husband’s shop in “L’Heure Espagnole” by this “Bolero” composer
Maurice Ravel
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Milan opera house has a secondary theater for chamber music
La Scala
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The text of this 1893 Engelbert Humperdinck opera was written by his sister, Adelheid Wette
Hansel And Gretel
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Mozart opera is set in part in the temple of Isis in Egypt
The Magic Flute
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Offenbach grand opera which premiered after his death in 1881 contains the popular “Barcarolle”
The Tales Of Hoffmann
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1956 this black contralto published her autobiography, “My Lord, What A Morning”
Marian Anderson
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| 19th century female star Giuditta Grisi created this role in “I Capuleti E I Montecchi”; surprise!
Romeo
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Act II of this Bizet opera, Escamillo sings the “Toreador’s Song”
“Carmen”
$3500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Composer who turned Victor Hugo’s play “Le Roi S’Amuse” into “Rigoletto”
Giuseppe Verdi
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Euridice is a soprano role in Monteverdi’s “The Fable Of” this man who went to hell & back for her
Orpheus
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The 1983 premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s “St. Francis of Assisi” was led by this Japanese conductor
Seiji Ozawa
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The role of Scrooge is sung by a baritone in this Thea Musgrave opera
“A Christmas Carol”
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Richard Strauss comic opera is named for Octavian, a young cavalier
“Der Rosenkavalier”
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Mussorgsky opera was first performed at the Met in 1913 with Adamo Didur as Boris
“Boris Godunov”
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots” deals with the events around this massacre
The St. Bartholemew’s Day Massacre
$1400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote both text & music for his 3-act opera “Tristan And Isolde”
Richard Wagner
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Traditionally, a female singer plays the role of Hansel in this Humperdinck opera
“Hansel and Gretel”
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Jules Massenet composed an opera based on this famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes
“Don Quixote”
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This hefty superstar tenor from Modena, Italy is often compared to Caruso
Luciano Pavarotti
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Originally, this composer’s opera “Rigoletto” was titled “La Maledizione” (“The Curse”)
Giuseppe Verdi
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Originally, this Czech composer’s opera “The Bartered Bride” contained some spoken dialogue
Bedrich Smetana
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “Messiah” composer’s 1735 opera “Alcina” was based on the epic poem “Orlando Furioso”
G.F. Handel
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Pietro Mascagni wrote his 1935 opera “Nerone” to glorify this dictator
Benito Mussolini
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this composer’s “Don Giovanni” features the famous “Champagne Aria”
W.A. Mozart
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Leoncavallo opera ends with the words “La commedia e finita” – “The comedy is ended”
Pagliacci
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Like “Carmen”, Prokofiev’s opera “The Duenna” takes place in this Spanish city
Seville
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| After his quarrel with W.S. Gilbert, he wrote the 1891 opera “Ivanhoe” without him
Arthur Sullivan
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer’s reputation rests on his first & last full-length operas, “The Pearl Fishers” & “Carmen”
Georges Bizet
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| His “Il Trovatore” contains the “Anvil Chorus”, a favorite of male choirs the world over
Giuseppe Verdi
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1876 he opened an opera house in the Franconian town of Bayreuth
Richard Wagner
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This New Zealand soprano appeared as Donna Elvira in Joseph Losey’s film of “Don Giovanni”
Kiri Te Kanawa
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Verdi opera, Odabella saves this famous Hun from being poisoned so she can kill him herself
Attila
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Austrian was just 14 when he composed his 1770 opera “Mitridate, Re Di Ponto”
W.A. Mozart
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A buzzard flies overhead & inspires the cast of this Gershwin opera to sing “The Buzzard Song”
Porgy and Bess
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Witches”, the 1st opera by this composer of “Madama Butterfly”, may be based on the ballet “Giselle”
Giacomo Puccini
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer of the “New World Symphony” wrote the operas “The Cunning Peasant” & “The Pigheaded Peasants”
Antonin Dvorak
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Djamileh” is a comic opera by this composer of “Carmen”
Georges Bizet
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Douglas Moore’s 1951 opera “Giants In” this is an adaptation of the novel by Ole E. Rolvaag
The Earth
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This oratorio composer’s 1735 opera “Ariodante” is based on “Orlando Furioso”
George Frideric Handel
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Der Rosenkavalier” takes place in Vienna during the reign of this archduchess
Maria Theresa
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “Turandot” composer’s opera “Sister Angelica” is set in a convent & has an all-female cast
Giacomo Puccini
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| As a teen Gian Carlo Menotti turned this undersea H.C. Andersen fairy tale into an opera
“The Little Mermaid”
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In this Puccini work, Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, is sung by a baritone
“Madame Butterfly”
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Richard Strauss opera is a “Wilde” tale set around 30 A.D. in Galilee
“Salome”
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “Billy The Kid” composer wrote 2 operas: “The Second Hurricane” & “The Tender Land”
Aaron Copland
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Tales of Hoffmann” was his last & greatest work
Jacques Offenbach
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Austrian composer’s 1790 opera “Cosi Fan Tutte” is set in 18th c. Naples
W.A. Mozart
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Donizetti’s opera about this female Borgia is based on a play by Victor Hugo
Lucrezia Borgia
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The first scene of this composer’s “Das Rheingold” takes place at the bottom of the Rhine
Richard Wagner
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Bellini’s 1831 opera “Norma” had its world premiere at this Milan opera house
La Scala
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Maria Callas was noted for her passionate performance in this composer’s “Tosca”
Giacomo Puccini
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The “marriage” of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva’s chateau
Figaro
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This opera’s best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San’s “Un Bel Di Vedremo”
Madame Butterfly
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory
“Carmen”
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title character in this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked jester
“Rigoletto”
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Beethoven wrote 4 overtures for this opera
“Fidelio”
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| After his death in 1958, Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto’s opera “Juha” premiered on radio in this capital
Helsinki
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 1791 Mozart opera is the greatest example of Zauberoper, or “Magic Opera”
“The Magic Flute”
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Darius Milhaud wrote a 1932 opera about this Hapsburg emperor of Mexico
Maximilian
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Norwegian completed only 3 scenes of “Olav Trygvason”, his sole attempt at opera
(Edvard) Grieg
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Name shared by a Handel opera, a general in Verdi’s “Atilla” & Mr. Pinza of the Met
Ezio
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Placido Domingo starred in a 1992 TV version of “Tosca”, taped in its actual settings in this capital city
Rome
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Robert Guilliaume appeared in a 1965 production of this Gershwin work at the Vienna Volksoper
Porgy and Bess
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Title shared by the Puccini and Leoncavallo operas about Mimi, a poor seamstress
La bohème
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “Lohengrin” composer’s first opera, “Die Fein”, wasn’t performed until 1888, five years after his death
Richard Wagner
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Savitre”, by this composer of “The Planets”, is based on an episode in “The Mahabarata”
Holst
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Hedwig Lachmann translated an Oscar Wilde play into German for this Richard Strauss opera
Salome
$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| One-word title of the Verdi opera set in Windsor, England in the 15th century
"Falstaff"
$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 20th century opera was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s painting “The Adoration of the Magi”
Amahl and the Night Visitors
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1910 “The Pipe of Desire” became the first opera by an American produced at this NYC opera house
the Met
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “The Tales of Hoffman”, Hoffman falls in love with Olympia, a mechanical one of these
a doll
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| It’s how Tosca kills Scarpia & Don Jose kills Carmen
stabbing
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This genius of Salzburg never finished his comic opera “The Goose of Cairo”
(Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “Madama Butterfly”, this leading male character is a Naval lieutenant, not a detective
Lieutenant Pinkerton
$100 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Giulio Rospigliosi, who held this office as Clement IX, wrote the libretto for the first comic opera
The Pope/Papacy
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Both Stravinsky’s “The Nightingale” & Puccini’s “Turandot” are set in this country
China
$300 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This nation opened its first opera house on the banks of the Amstel River in 1986
The Netherlands/Holland
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Verdi jester is considered one of the most challenging baritone roles ever written
Rigoletto
$500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Boris Godunov” is the only opera completed by this composer
Modest Mussorgsky
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A “monster” opera based on this Mary Shelley novel premiered in 1990
Frankenstein
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1872 this composer conducted his “Aida” at La Scala in Milan
Verdi
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Part of this Rossini opera takes place on the shores of Lake Lucerne
William Tell
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this opera ends with a love duet between Roddolfo & Mimi
La bohème
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Wagner opera concludes with a ship sinking & its captain & Senta ascending to heaven
The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer)
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This heroine’s Japanese name is Cio-Cio-San
Madame Butterfly
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Guinness says the longest commonly performed opera is his “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg”
Wagner
$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title of this Leoncavallo opera can be translated as “Clowns”
Pagliacci (I Pagliacci accepted)
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The earliest opera that survives, Peri’s 1600 “Euridice” tells of Euridice & this husband
Orpheus
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots” revolves around this 1572 massacre of the Huguenots
the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This opera set in Nagasaki was first performed in Italian in Milan in 1904
Madama Butterfly
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Common translation of the Wagner title “Der Fliegende Hollander”
The Flying Dutchman
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “La Boheme” Rodolfo lights her fire; they meet when she asks him to light her candle
Mimi
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote the libretto for Dessau’s “The Trial of Lucullus” & Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera”
Bertolt Brecht
$1500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Mother Of Us All”, by Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein, is about this American feminist
Susan B. Anthony
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “Siegfried” Fafner the giant is turned into one of these mythical beasts before Siegfried slays him
a dragon
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| 1st name shared by Rigoletto’s daughter, a “Saturday Night Live” star & a R. Hayworth character
Gilda
$3000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Marie, the heroine of this Donizetti opera, was adopted as an infant by French soldiers
The Daughter of the Regiment
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| English composer whose 1947 opera “Albert Herring” is about a young man, not a young fish
Benjamin Britten
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Drops of blood from the ceiling reveal where an outlaw is hiding in this Puccini opera
The Girl of the Golden West
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| By the end of “Salome” this character has lost his head
John the Baptist
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| She marries King Mark, but Tristan is her consuming passion
Isolde
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In English the title of this Richard Strauss opera is “The Knight of the Rose”
Der Rosenkavalier
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Berlioz’s opera about “The Damnation Of” this man features the “Dance of the Sylphs”
Faust
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In the last scene of “The Maid Of Orleans”, a fire is lit in this city
Rouen
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title of Donizetti’s opera “La Fille Du Regiment” translates to this
“The Daughter of the Regiment”
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Lakme” is set in this country, where Lakme is the daughter of a Brahman priest
India
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Of a baritone, a bass or a tenor, what Caruso was
Tenor
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Pietro Mascagni said, “It is a pity I wrote” this opera “first. I was crowned before I became king.”
Cavalleria rusticana
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Verdi’s opera “Don Carlos”, Don Carlos is the son of this 16th century Spanish king
King Philip II
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Spontini’s opera about this adventurer’s conquest of Mexico premiered in 1809
Hernando Cortez
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Operas based on this Norwegian’s plays include “The Feast at Solhaug” & “Peer Gynt”
Henrik Ibsen
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer of “The Mikado” wrote only 1 grand opera, “Ivanhoe”
Sir Arthur Sullivan
$100 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He composed a 1-act jazz opera called “Blue Monday” 13 years before “Porgy & Bess”
George Gershwin
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera about Mozart’s rivalry with this man, who allegedly poisoned him
Antonio Salieri
$500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote his 1st opera, “The Death of Pierrot”, at age 11; the one about Amahl came much later
Gian Carlo Menotti
$100 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This queen is a leading character in the epic 20th century opera “Christophe Colomb”
Queen Isabella
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountain” is an opera based on this John Bunyan work
The Pilgrim’s Progress
$300 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Both of these opera companies are based at Lincoln Center
Metropolitan & New York City Opera
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In English, the name of this Verdi opera means “The Troubadour”
Il trovatore
$500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Birgit Nilsson is best known for her heroic roles in this composer’s operas
Richard Wagner
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung”, she dies by riding her horse onto Siegfried’s funeral pyre
Brunhilde
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Naval rank of Pinkerton in “Madame Butterfly”
lieutenant
$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Of “Benvenuto Cellini”, “Boris Godunov”, and “Eugene Onegin”, the two who were historic figures
Cellini and Godunov
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Germany, this opera is sometimes called “Margarethe” to separate it from the Goethe drama
Faust
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In this operetta, Prince Orlovsky calls champagne “the king of all wines”
Die Fleidermaus
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Verdi fans always want “moor” of this Shakespearean hero
Othello
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote Brunhilde’s immolation, opera’s longest aria of nearly 15 minutes
Wagner
$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The Lone Ranger’s theme is the opera’s overture
(The) William Tell (Overture)
$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Profession of Rossini’s Figaro
a barber
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| <a>This</a> aria from “Pagliacci” gave him the first million-selling record ever
Enrico Caruso
$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Lt. Pinkerton’s girlfriend Cio-Cio-San
Madame Butterfly
$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| 1976 was also the bicentennial of this famed Milan opera house
Teatro alla Scala
