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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This title character is sent to fetch Isolde, his uncle King Mark’s intended bride

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Tristan

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| She’s a slave to Amneris, an Egyptian princess

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Aida

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Alban Berg’s 1937 opera is a real doozy, or a real this, the double-talk name of its title character

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Lulu

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Gingerbread figures turn back into boys & girls when the witch’s spell is broken in this opera

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Hansel and Gretel

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$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

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Prospero

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The “Hexenritt”, or “Witches’ Ride”, is sung in Act III of this 1893 fairy tale opera

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Hansel and Gretel

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” ends with the marriage of Henry VIII (aka Enrico) to this woman

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Jane Seymour

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “La boheme” the poet Rodolfo falls in love with this seamstress who suffers from tuberculosis

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Mimi

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Carl Maria von Weber’s 1826 opera about this king of the fairies was subtitled “or, the Elf King’s Oath”

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Oberon

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1961, as Venus in “Tannhauser”, Grace Bumbry became the first black diva to sing at this Wagner festival

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Bayreuth

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Twilight of the Gods” is the last part of this composer’s “Ring” cycle

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Wagner

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$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

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Cinderella

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Coppelius & Dr. Miracle appear in “The Tales of” him

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Hoffmann

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Beethoven opera was based on a play called “Leonore”

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Fidelio

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Bellini title gal who’s high priestess of a Druid temple in Gaul

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Norma

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$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title character of this opera addresses his son in the aria “Sois immobile” (“hold yourself still”)

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William Tell

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$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| The aria “Pour mon ame” by Donizetti includes 9 of these; a few tenors have earned the nickname “King of” them

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high Cs

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Maid of Pskov”, this notorious 16th c. czar destroys the city of Novgorod

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Ivan (the Terrible)

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “Maria Stuarda”, this queen signs Mary Stuart’s death warrant after being called a bastard

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Queen Elizabeth I

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| On Feb. 26, 1776 a fire destroyed Milan’s Royal Ducal Theatre; this replaced it

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La Scala di Milano

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Gian Carlo Menotti TV opera features a crippled boy, his mother & 3 kings: Kaspar, Melchior & Balthazar

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Amahl and the Night Visitors

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Johann Strauss opera has appeared in several English versions, including “Night Birds” & “Rosalinda”

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Die Fledermaus

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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Rossini opera this Swiss patriot is forced to shoot an apple placed on his son Jemmy’s head

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William Tell

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This opera ends with the title madam committing hara-kiri

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Madame Butterfly

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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Don Jose is bewitched by this title gypsy girl

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Carmen

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This title slave & Pharaoh’s daughter Amneris are both in love with Radames

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Aida

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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Count Almaviva attempts to thwart this opera’s title marriage

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The Marriage of Figaro

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Canterbury Pilgrims”, an 1884 opera, is based on a work by him

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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$4000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Several operas based on “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” are named for this Gypsy girl

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Esméralda

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a fairy tale Rossini opera, Angelina is called this

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Cinderella (La Cenerentola)

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Pagliacci” is almost always performed with this 1-act Mascagni opera, “Cav” for short

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Cavalleria rusticana

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$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

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The Rake’s Progress

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Mefistofele” is based on this 1808 literary work

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Faust

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The Duke of Mantua’s “La donna e mobile” is from this opera

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Rigoletto

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 2008 opera is based partly on a 1986 David Cronenberg film

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The Fly

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Beethoven opera, Leonore disguises herself as this boy

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Fidelio

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Eva will wed the contest winner in “Die” this “von Nurnberg”

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Meistersinger

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In an 1816 opera, he’s the Barber of Seville

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Figaro

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Donizetti’s operas include “Anna Bolena” & “Lucrezia” this

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Borgia

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Around the same time, Leoncavallo & this man both wrote operas based on the novel “Scenes de la vie de boheme”

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(Giacomo) Puccini

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Salome”, this composer’s first successful opera, was banned in Boston in 1923

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Richard Strauss

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$3000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A Norwegian sea captain is a character in this 1843 opera

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The Flying Dutchman

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| It’s the capital city where “Carmen” composer Georges Bizet was born in 1838

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Paris

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A flop when it debuted in 1904, this Puccini opera set in Nagasaki later became one of the best-loved operas

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Madame Butterfly

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$3000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| George Gershwin personally asked Howard University voice professor Todd Duncan to originate this title role

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Porgy

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Inspired by his love for a friend’s wife, Wagner composed this opera about a pair of medieval lovers

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Tristan and Isolde

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer of “Cavalleria Rusticana” wrote “Il Piccolo Marat”, a sadly neglected opera about the Reign of Terror

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Mascagni

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Rodolfo burns his poems to keep the stove going in act I of this Puccini work

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La Boheme

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Handel’s “Berenice, Queen of Egypt” took a hiatus from the stage from the first part of this century to 1985

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the 18th century

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Poignant, given Pagliaccio’s profession, the line “Ridi Pagliaccio” means do this, Pagliaccio

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laugh

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Paisiello opera about a Spaniard was “snipped” out of the repertoire by Rossini’s more popular version

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The Barber of Seville

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| It’s the “mirthful” opera house that premiered “Carmen”, or the French term for the type of opera “Carmen” is

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Opera comique

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Susanna the maid is the bride in this Mozart opera

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The Marriage of Figaro

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The name of this Verdi opera means “The Fallen Woman”

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La Traviata

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Puccini’s last opera, it’s set in Peking

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Turandot

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$4000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 1892 Leoncavallo work has a play within the opera

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Pagliacci

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “La Bisbetica Dominata” was based on this Shakespeare play

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The Taming of the Shrew

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “Cavalleria Rusticana”, an ear gets bitten when Alfio challenges Turiddu to their fateful one of these

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a duel

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Gian Carlo Menotti’s 1963 opera “Labyrinth” was written for this medium

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television

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Rigoletto” prompted Rossini to say that at last he recognized this compser’s genius

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Verdi

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Count Bitowski leads the company in praise of the waltz in “The Viennese Spirit” by this composer

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Strauss (the Younger)

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “precious” first opera in the “Ring” cycle runs about 90 minutes shorter than any of the other 3

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Das Rheingold

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title libertine of this 1787 Mozart opera seduces women in 17th century Seville

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Don Giovanni

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title of this Puccini opera deals with a painter (Marcello), a poet (Rodolfo) & a philosopher (Colline)

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La bohème

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The Franco-Prussian war delayed this Verdi opera’s premiere: scenery couldn’t leave besieged Paris for Cairo

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Aida

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Verdi title character is an Ethiopian slave to Pharaoh’s daughter

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Aida

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| His opera “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg” was inspired by Hans Sachs, who wrote more than 4,200 Meisterlieder

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Wagner

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Heard <a>here</a> in a Gluck opera, this mythological character is lamenting the loss of his beloved

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Orpheus

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In operas by Massenet & Puccini, it’s the given name of Mlle. Lescaut

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Manon

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In opera, that “dum-dee-dee-dee-dum” every time the merry carpenter shows up is called one of these

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a leitmotif (a motif accepted)

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Tenor Leo Slezak covered a staging mistake in “Lohengrin” by ad-libbing, “What time is the next” this graceful bird

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swan

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| His new “Tosca” was the toasta Roma in 1900

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Puccini

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Verdi’s first comic opera was a flop; it was 50 years before he wrote his second, about this Shakespeare character

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Falstaff

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Mozart opera opens with the title character on the prowl for Donna Anna

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Don Giovanni

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Fragments of the “Ode to Joy” appear in the libretto of this 1805 opera, the composer’s only one

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Fidelio

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Puccini included a passage from “The Star-Spangled Banner” in one of Pinkerton’s numbers in this opera

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Madame Butterfly

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$3000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A highlight of this tragic opera set in Palestine is the “Dance of the Seven Veils”

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Salome

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He’s Verdi’s title hunchbacked court jester

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Rigoletto

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Act I of “La boheme”, this poet keeps a fire burning in the chilly attic by sacrificing his manuscript

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Rodolfo

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Richard Strauss opera title, the name of this daughter of Minos precedes “auf Naxos”

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Ariadne

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this “airborne” Wagner work includes a tenor aria about a sailor returning to his sweetheart

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The Flying Dutchman

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1782 Mozart married Constanze & made Constanze the harem-bound heroine of “The Abduction from” here

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the Seraglio

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Richard Strauss opera, the princess sends one of these to her cavalier–hence the title

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a rose

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Cleopatra (soprano) & Curio (bass) appear in Handel’s opera about this man (contralto) in Egypt

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Julius Caesar

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote the ragtime opera “A Guest of Honor”

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(Scott) Joplin

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Verdi opera was first performed on Dec. 24, 1871, in Cairo

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Aida

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Puccini opera, he marries then abandons Cio-Cio-San

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Pinkerton

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Wagner opera, this title knight tells Elsa he’ll marry her so long as she never asks his identity

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Lohengrin

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 1893 opera based on a children’s tale is set partly in the woods of Ilsenstein

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Hansel and Gretel

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A 1913 opera about this queen of Ithaca is based on an episode from “The Odyssey”

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Penelope

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Eva has to marry the winner of a singing contest in Nuremberg in this comic opera by Wagner

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Die Meistersinger (von Nürnburg)

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 2004 the Royal Opera dropped soprano Deborah Voigt from “Ariadne Auf Naxos” for this reason

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she was too heavy

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The name of this comic opera by Mozart is sometimes translated as “So Do They All”

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Cosi Fan Tutte

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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title role in “Boris Godunov” is for a singer in this vocal range

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bass

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Peter Cornelius’ opera “The Barber of Baghdad” was based on a tale in this collection

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Arabian Nights

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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Sir Arthur Sullivan’s “Ivanhoe”, “Ho, Jolly Jenkin” is an aria for this Friar

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Friar Tuck

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Wagner didn’t want “Parsifal” performed outside of this city that now holds Wagner festivals

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Bayreuth

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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| His “Elecktra” in 1908 may have been electric, but it was his “Salome” 3 years earlier that was scandalous

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Richard Strauss

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$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| The libretto for “William Tell” was in this language, the native tongue of neither the composer, Rossini, nor the subject

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French

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| For the gift of youth, this philosopher & alchemist pledges his soul to Mephistopheles

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Faust

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$1800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this opera opens at Pinkerton’s house in Nagasaki

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Madame Butterfly

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Beethoven opera was originally titled “Leonore”

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Fidelio

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Jacques Offenbach died on Oct. 5, 1880, 4 months before his “Tales of” this poet was first produced

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Hoffmann

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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Richard Wagner opera, this knight in shining armor arrives on a boat drawn by a swan

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Lohengrin

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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera

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Carmen

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Like many of his works, this composer’s “Tannhauser” is based on Germanic legends

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(Richard) Wagner

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$2500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Mozart opera in which the count tries to thwart & postpone his valet’s wedding

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The Marriage of Figaro

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108
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Musetta has her very own waltz in Act II of this Puccini opera

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La boheme

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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| At 35 he decided for the first time to sit right down & write himself an opera; he produced “Fidelio”

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(Ludwig van) Beethoven

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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Figaro is the title character of this 1816 Rossini opera

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The Barber of Seville

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Mimi in “La boheme” suffers & dies from this disease

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consumption

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112
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This title character performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for Herod in an opera by Richard Strauss

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Salome

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Esmeralda”, an 1840s opera, is based on a work by this “Miserable” author

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Victor Hugo

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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Russian composer’s “The Love for Three Oranges” is an opera within an opera about a melancholy prince

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Sergei Prokofiev

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Wagner’s “Die Walkure”, she was Wotan’s favorite of the Valkyrie warriors

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Brunhilde

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Menotti opera debuted on the New York stage on April 9, 1952, 4 months after it was televised

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Amahl and the Night Visitors

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The first of Verdi’s trilogy of romantic operas, it was followed by “Il Trovatore” & “La Traviata”

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Rigoletto

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118
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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Carmen” is set in this city around 1820

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Seville

119
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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Puccini title heroine’s first name is Floria

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Tosca

120
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Marriage of” this servant of Count Almaviva was once banned in France lest it incite the lower classes to revolt

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Figaro

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Much of this Puccini opera takes place in a cafe in Paris’ Latin Quarter

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La boheme

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$1200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1928 he & Bertolt Brecht “jazzed” up “The Beggar’s Opera” to create “The Threepenny Opera”

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Kurt Weill

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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Humperdinck opera developed from verses written by his sister which were based on a Grimm fairy tale

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Hansel and Gretel

124
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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Johann Strauss operetta has appeared in an English version titled “Night Birds”

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Die Fledermaus

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$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

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Metropolitan Opera House

126
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$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”

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Aida

127
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$4000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Mozart opera about an insatiable lover is also known as “The Reprobate Punished”

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Don Giovanni

128
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$1600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A highlight of Enrico Caruso’s career was his rendition of the aria “Vesti la Giubba” in this Leoncavallo opera

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Pagliacci

129
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$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “La boheme”, the sickly Mimi dies in the arms of her lover, this poet

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Rodolfo

130
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Henry Purcell wrote operas about “The Faery” one & “The Indian” one

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Queen

131
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1829, after his move to Paris, this Italian composer wrote “William Tell”

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Gioachino Rossini

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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Lorenzo Da Ponte supplied composers with over 40 librettos, including “Cosi fan tutte” for this man

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W.A. Mozart

133
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He was in his 70s when he composed “Otello” in 1887 & “Falstaff” in 1893

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Giuseppe Verdi

134
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$1500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| After his 1711 opera “Rinaldo” made his name, he immediately moved from Hanover to England

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G.F. Handel

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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Characters in this Bizet opera include a toreador, a gypsy girl & cigarette factory girls

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Carmen

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Austrian composer didn’t complete his operas “Adrast” & “Sakuntala”; he left a symphony “unfinished”, too

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Franz Schubert

137
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Offenbach’s “Orphee aux Enfers”, Orpheus goes to Hades to retrieve this woman, his cheatin’ wife

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Eurydice

138
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Verdi’s “Falstaff” is based on Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” plays & this Shakespeare comedy

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

139
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A comic opera by Strauss based on an incident from his marriage, or a short orchestral piece played between scenes

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Intermezzo

140
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Its 1871 premiere in Cairo was delayed due to the Franco-Prussian War

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“Aida”

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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This city on the Adriatic is the setting for “La Gioconda”

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Venice

142
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| 1850 Wagner opera in which you’d hear “Farewell, farewell, my beloved swan”

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“Lohengrin”

143
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Puccini opera, this prima donna is pursued by the evil Scarpia, chief of the Roman police

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“Tosca”

144
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The name of this short Pietro Mascagni opera translates to “Rustic Chivalry”

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“Cavalleria rusticana”

145
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$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| A 1920s discovery proved that some of the instruments used in this 1871 opera were historically accurate

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"Aida"

146
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$100 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Master Peter’s Puppet Show” – a puppet opera (?!) – is based on a passage from this Cervantes work

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“Don Quixote”

147
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The composition of this German’s “Ring” cycle spanned over 20 years

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Richard Wagner

148
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$300 ||| Category: OPERA ||| An Ethiopian slave girl is torn between love & patriotism in the Egypt of the Pharaohs in this Verdi opera

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“Aida”

149
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Operas by this composer include “Cosi Fan Tutte” & “The Magic Flute”

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W.A. Mozart

150
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$500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| It’s the English title of the opera “I Pagliacci” & the name of a ballet that juxtaposes terror & buffoonery

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“The Clowns”

151
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Consumed with guilt over her affair with Boris, the heroine of “Katya Kabanova” drowns herself in this Russian river

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Volga

152
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Ferenc Erkel’s 1844 work “Hunyady Laszlo” is one of this country’s most famous operas

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Hungary

153
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Minnie runs a saloon in a California mining camp in this Italian composer’s opera “The Girl of the Golden West”

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Giacomo Puccini

154
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Die Harmonie der Welt” explores the life of this astronomer & his musical theories of planetary motion

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Johannes Kepler

155
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The heroine of this Czech composer’s 1881 opera “Libuse” is the queen of Bohemia

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Bedrich Smetana

156
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Rossini’s “William Tell” Overture was used as the theme for this classic TV western

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The Lone Ranger

157
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In this opera based on a Grimm fairy tale, the witch lures 2 kids into her gingerbread house

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Hansel and Gretel

158
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” takes place in the early 1900s in this country

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Japan

159
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Ambroise Thomas’ opera about this man differs from Shakespeare’s play; in the opera, he becomes king of Denmark

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Hamlet

160
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer’s “Rigoletto” is based on Victor Hugo’s play “Le Roi S’Amuse” (“The King Amuses Himself”)

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Giuseppe Verdi

161
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE): This 1865 opera named for 2 legendary lovers contains the passage heard here

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Tristan And Isolde

162
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Concepcion’s lovers hide inside clocks in her husband’s shop in “L’Heure Espagnole” by this “Bolero” composer

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Maurice Ravel

163
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Milan opera house has a secondary theater for chamber music

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La Scala

164
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The text of this 1893 Engelbert Humperdinck opera was written by his sister, Adelheid Wette

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Hansel And Gretel

165
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Mozart opera is set in part in the temple of Isis in Egypt

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The Magic Flute

166
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Offenbach grand opera which premiered after his death in 1881 contains the popular “Barcarolle”

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The Tales Of Hoffmann

167
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1956 this black contralto published her autobiography, “My Lord, What A Morning”

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Marian Anderson

168
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| 19th century female star Giuditta Grisi created this role in “I Capuleti E I Montecchi”; surprise!

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Romeo

169
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Act II of this Bizet opera, Escamillo sings the “Toreador’s Song”

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“Carmen”

170
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$3500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Composer who turned Victor Hugo’s play “Le Roi S’Amuse” into “Rigoletto”

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Giuseppe Verdi

171
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Euridice is a soprano role in Monteverdi’s “The Fable Of” this man who went to hell & back for her

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Orpheus

172
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The 1983 premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s “St. Francis of Assisi” was led by this Japanese conductor

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Seiji Ozawa

173
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The role of Scrooge is sung by a baritone in this Thea Musgrave opera

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“A Christmas Carol”

174
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Richard Strauss comic opera is named for Octavian, a young cavalier

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“Der Rosenkavalier”

175
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Mussorgsky opera was first performed at the Met in 1913 with Adamo Didur as Boris

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“Boris Godunov”

176
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots” deals with the events around this massacre

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The St. Bartholemew’s Day Massacre

177
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$1400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote both text & music for his 3-act opera “Tristan And Isolde”

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Richard Wagner

178
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Traditionally, a female singer plays the role of Hansel in this Humperdinck opera

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“Hansel and Gretel”

179
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Jules Massenet composed an opera based on this famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes

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“Don Quixote”

180
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This hefty superstar tenor from Modena, Italy is often compared to Caruso

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Luciano Pavarotti

181
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Originally, this composer’s opera “Rigoletto” was titled “La Maledizione” (“The Curse”)

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Giuseppe Verdi

182
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Originally, this Czech composer’s opera “The Bartered Bride” contained some spoken dialogue

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Bedrich Smetana

183
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “Messiah” composer’s 1735 opera “Alcina” was based on the epic poem “Orlando Furioso”

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G.F. Handel

184
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Pietro Mascagni wrote his 1935 opera “Nerone” to glorify this dictator

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Benito Mussolini

185
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this composer’s “Don Giovanni” features the famous “Champagne Aria”

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W.A. Mozart

186
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Leoncavallo opera ends with the words “La commedia e finita” – “The comedy is ended”

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Pagliacci

187
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Like “Carmen”, Prokofiev’s opera “The Duenna” takes place in this Spanish city

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Seville

188
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| After his quarrel with W.S. Gilbert, he wrote the 1891 opera “Ivanhoe” without him

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Arthur Sullivan

189
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer’s reputation rests on his first & last full-length operas, “The Pearl Fishers” & “Carmen”

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Georges Bizet

190
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| His “Il Trovatore” contains the “Anvil Chorus”, a favorite of male choirs the world over

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Giuseppe Verdi

191
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1876 he opened an opera house in the Franconian town of Bayreuth

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Richard Wagner

192
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This New Zealand soprano appeared as Donna Elvira in Joseph Losey’s film of “Don Giovanni”

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Kiri Te Kanawa

193
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In a Verdi opera, Odabella saves this famous Hun from being poisoned so she can kill him herself

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Attila

194
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Austrian was just 14 when he composed his 1770 opera “Mitridate, Re Di Ponto”

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W.A. Mozart

195
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A buzzard flies overhead & inspires the cast of this Gershwin opera to sing “The Buzzard Song”

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Porgy and Bess

196
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Witches”, the 1st opera by this composer of “Madama Butterfly”, may be based on the ballet “Giselle”

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Giacomo Puccini

197
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer of the “New World Symphony” wrote the operas “The Cunning Peasant” & “The Pigheaded Peasants”

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Antonin Dvorak

198
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Djamileh” is a comic opera by this composer of “Carmen”

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Georges Bizet

199
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Douglas Moore’s 1951 opera “Giants In” this is an adaptation of the novel by Ole E. Rolvaag

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The Earth

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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This oratorio composer’s 1735 opera “Ariodante” is based on “Orlando Furioso”

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George Frideric Handel

201
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Der Rosenkavalier” takes place in Vienna during the reign of this archduchess

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Maria Theresa

202
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “Turandot” composer’s opera “Sister Angelica” is set in a convent & has an all-female cast

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Giacomo Puccini

203
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| As a teen Gian Carlo Menotti turned this undersea H.C. Andersen fairy tale into an opera

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“The Little Mermaid”

204
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In this Puccini work, Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, is sung by a baritone

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“Madame Butterfly”

205
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Richard Strauss opera is a “Wilde” tale set around 30 A.D. in Galilee

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“Salome”

206
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “Billy The Kid” composer wrote 2 operas: “The Second Hurricane” & “The Tender Land”

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Aaron Copland

207
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Tales of Hoffmann” was his last & greatest work

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Jacques Offenbach

208
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Austrian composer’s 1790 opera “Cosi Fan Tutte” is set in 18th c. Naples

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W.A. Mozart

209
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Donizetti’s opera about this female Borgia is based on a play by Victor Hugo

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Lucrezia Borgia

210
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The first scene of this composer’s “Das Rheingold” takes place at the bottom of the Rhine

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Richard Wagner

211
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Bellini’s 1831 opera “Norma” had its world premiere at this Milan opera house

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La Scala

212
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Maria Callas was noted for her passionate performance in this composer’s “Tosca”

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Giacomo Puccini

213
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The “marriage” of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva’s chateau

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Figaro

214
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This opera’s best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San’s “Un Bel Di Vedremo”

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Madame Butterfly

215
Q

$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory

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“Carmen”

216
Q

$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title character in this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked jester

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“Rigoletto”

217
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Beethoven wrote 4 overtures for this opera

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“Fidelio”

218
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| After his death in 1958, Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto’s opera “Juha” premiered on radio in this capital

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Helsinki

219
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 1791 Mozart opera is the greatest example of Zauberoper, or “Magic Opera”

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“The Magic Flute”

220
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Darius Milhaud wrote a 1932 opera about this Hapsburg emperor of Mexico

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Maximilian

221
Q

$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Norwegian completed only 3 scenes of “Olav Trygvason”, his sole attempt at opera

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(Edvard) Grieg

222
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Name shared by a Handel opera, a general in Verdi’s “Atilla” & Mr. Pinza of the Met

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Ezio

223
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Placido Domingo starred in a 1992 TV version of “Tosca”, taped in its actual settings in this capital city

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Rome

224
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Robert Guilliaume appeared in a 1965 production of this Gershwin work at the Vienna Volksoper

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Porgy and Bess

225
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Title shared by the Puccini and Leoncavallo operas about Mimi, a poor seamstress

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La bohème

226
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This “Lohengrin” composer’s first opera, “Die Fein”, wasn’t performed until 1888, five years after his death

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Richard Wagner

227
Q

$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Savitre”, by this composer of “The Planets”, is based on an episode in “The Mahabarata”

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Holst

228
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Hedwig Lachmann translated an Oscar Wilde play into German for this Richard Strauss opera

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Salome

229
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$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| One-word title of the Verdi opera set in Windsor, England in the 15th century

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"Falstaff"

230
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$None ||| Category: OPERA ||| This 20th century opera was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s painting “The Adoration of the Magi”

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Amahl and the Night Visitors

231
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1910 “The Pipe of Desire” became the first opera by an American produced at this NYC opera house

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the Met

232
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “The Tales of Hoffman”, Hoffman falls in love with Olympia, a mechanical one of these

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a doll

233
Q

$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| It’s how Tosca kills Scarpia & Don Jose kills Carmen

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stabbing

234
Q

$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This genius of Salzburg never finished his comic opera “The Goose of Cairo”

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(Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart

235
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “Madama Butterfly”, this leading male character is a Naval lieutenant, not a detective

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Lieutenant Pinkerton

236
Q

$100 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Giulio Rospigliosi, who held this office as Clement IX, wrote the libretto for the first comic opera

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The Pope/Papacy

237
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Both Stravinsky’s “The Nightingale” & Puccini’s “Turandot” are set in this country

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China

238
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$300 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This nation opened its first opera house on the banks of the Amstel River in 1986

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The Netherlands/Holland

239
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Verdi jester is considered one of the most challenging baritone roles ever written

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Rigoletto

240
Q

$500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Boris Godunov” is the only opera completed by this composer

A

Modest Mussorgsky

241
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| A “monster” opera based on this Mary Shelley novel premiered in 1990

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Frankenstein

242
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In 1872 this composer conducted his “Aida” at La Scala in Milan

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Verdi

243
Q

$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Part of this Rossini opera takes place on the shores of Lake Lucerne

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William Tell

244
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Act I of this opera ends with a love duet between Roddolfo & Mimi

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La bohème

245
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This Wagner opera concludes with a ship sinking & its captain & Senta ascending to heaven

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The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer)

246
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This heroine’s Japanese name is Cio-Cio-San

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Madame Butterfly

247
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Guinness says the longest commonly performed opera is his “Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg”

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Wagner

248
Q

$2000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title of this Leoncavallo opera can be translated as “Clowns”

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Pagliacci (I Pagliacci accepted)

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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The earliest opera that survives, Peri’s 1600 “Euridice” tells of Euridice & this husband

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Orpheus

250
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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots” revolves around this 1572 massacre of the Huguenots

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the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

251
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This opera set in Nagasaki was first performed in Italian in Milan in 1904

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Madama Butterfly

252
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Common translation of the Wagner title “Der Fliegende Hollander”

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The Flying Dutchman

253
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$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “La Boheme” Rodolfo lights her fire; they meet when she asks him to light her candle

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Mimi

254
Q

$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote the libretto for Dessau’s “The Trial of Lucullus” & Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera”

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Bertolt Brecht

255
Q

$1500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Mother Of Us All”, by Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein, is about this American feminist

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Susan B. Anthony

256
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In “Siegfried” Fafner the giant is turned into one of these mythical beasts before Siegfried slays him

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a dragon

257
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| 1st name shared by Rigoletto’s daughter, a “Saturday Night Live” star & a R. Hayworth character

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Gilda

258
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$3000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Marie, the heroine of this Donizetti opera, was adopted as an infant by French soldiers

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The Daughter of the Regiment

259
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| English composer whose 1947 opera “Albert Herring” is about a young man, not a young fish

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Benjamin Britten

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$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Drops of blood from the ceiling reveal where an outlaw is hiding in this Puccini opera

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The Girl of the Golden West

261
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$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| By the end of “Salome” this character has lost his head

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John the Baptist

262
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$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| She marries King Mark, but Tristan is her consuming passion

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Isolde

263
Q

$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In English the title of this Richard Strauss opera is “The Knight of the Rose”

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Der Rosenkavalier

264
Q

$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Berlioz’s opera about “The Damnation Of” this man features the “Dance of the Sylphs”

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Faust

265
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In the last scene of “The Maid Of Orleans”, a fire is lit in this city

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Rouen

266
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The title of Donizetti’s opera “La Fille Du Regiment” translates to this

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“The Daughter of the Regiment”

267
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “Lakme” is set in this country, where Lakme is the daughter of a Brahman priest

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India

268
Q

$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Of a baritone, a bass or a tenor, what Caruso was

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Tenor

269
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$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Pietro Mascagni said, “It is a pity I wrote” this opera “first. I was crowned before I became king.”

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Cavalleria rusticana

270
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Verdi’s opera “Don Carlos”, Don Carlos is the son of this 16th century Spanish king

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King Philip II

271
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Spontini’s opera about this adventurer’s conquest of Mexico premiered in 1809

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Hernando Cortez

272
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Operas based on this Norwegian’s plays include “The Feast at Solhaug” & “Peer Gynt”

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Henrik Ibsen

273
Q

$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This composer of “The Mikado” wrote only 1 grand opera, “Ivanhoe”

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Sir Arthur Sullivan

274
Q

$100 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He composed a 1-act jazz opera called “Blue Monday” 13 years before “Porgy & Bess”

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George Gershwin

275
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera about Mozart’s rivalry with this man, who allegedly poisoned him

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Antonio Salieri

276
Q

$500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote his 1st opera, “The Death of Pierrot”, at age 11; the one about Amahl came much later

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Gian Carlo Menotti

277
Q

$100 ||| Category: OPERA ||| This queen is a leading character in the epic 20th century opera “Christophe Colomb”

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Queen Isabella

278
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| “The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountain” is an opera based on this John Bunyan work

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The Pilgrim’s Progress

279
Q

$300 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Both of these opera companies are based at Lincoln Center

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Metropolitan & New York City Opera

280
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In English, the name of this Verdi opera means “The Troubadour”

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Il trovatore

281
Q

$500 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Birgit Nilsson is best known for her heroic roles in this composer’s operas

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Richard Wagner

282
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung”, she dies by riding her horse onto Siegfried’s funeral pyre

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Brunhilde

283
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Naval rank of Pinkerton in “Madame Butterfly”

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lieutenant

284
Q

$600 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Of “Benvenuto Cellini”, “Boris Godunov”, and “Eugene Onegin”, the two who were historic figures

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Cellini and Godunov

285
Q

$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In Germany, this opera is sometimes called “Margarethe” to separate it from the Goethe drama

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Faust

286
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| In this operetta, Prince Orlovsky calls champagne “the king of all wines”

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Die Fleidermaus

287
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Verdi fans always want “moor” of this Shakespearean hero

A

Othello

288
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| He wrote Brunhilde’s immolation, opera’s longest aria of nearly 15 minutes

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Wagner

289
Q

$200 ||| Category: OPERA ||| The Lone Ranger’s theme is the opera’s overture

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(The) William Tell (Overture)

290
Q

$400 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Profession of Rossini’s Figaro

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a barber

291
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| <a>This</a> aria from “Pagliacci” gave him the first million-selling record ever

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Enrico Caruso

292
Q

$800 ||| Category: OPERA ||| Lt. Pinkerton’s girlfriend Cio-Cio-San

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Madame Butterfly

293
Q

$1000 ||| Category: OPERA ||| 1976 was also the bicentennial of this famed Milan opera house

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Teatro alla Scala

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