Opera Flashcards
Who wrote the opera Norma?
Bellini
Which opera by Bellini tells the story of a Druidic priestess with a secret lover?
Norma
Which opera by Berg was based on a play by Georg Buchner?
Wozzeck
The opera Wozzeck is by which composer?
Berg
Which Berlioz opera is a musical retelling of The Aeneid?
Les Troyens
The central character of Bizet’s Carmen works in a factory producing what?
Cigarettes
The Flower Song, the Toreador Somg and Habanera all come from which opera by Bizet?
Carmen
Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande is known as what sort of tragedy?
Symbolist
The Flower Duet comes from which opera by Delibes?
Lakme
The Flower Duet in Delibes’ Lakme is a duet between Lakme and which other character?
Mallika
The Elixir of Love is an opera by which composer?
Donizetti
Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love concerns a quack doctor named what?
Dulcamara
Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti is based on the novels of which writer?
Walter Scott
Who composed the opera that became known as the French Orphee?
Gluck
Which singer became closely associated with J’ai Perdu, Mon Eurydice in Gluck’s French Orphee?
Maria Callas
Which song in Gluck’s French Orphee became associated with Maria Callas?
Jai Perdu, Mon Eurydice
Which opera by Handel shares a name with a play by Shakespeare?
Julius Caesar
Which opera by Janacek is about an unwanted baby being drowned?
Jenufa
The opera Jenufa is by which Czech composer?
Janacek
Hanna Glawari is the title character of which opera by Lehar?
The Merry Widow
Which title character of an opera by Leoncavallo is named in The Tears of a Clown by Smokey Robinson?
Pagliacci
Pagliacci is the only still regularly performed opera by which composer?
Leoncavallo
What song from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci is popular with tenors?
Put on the Motley
Which opera by Ligeti is set upon the brink of apocalypse?
Le Grand Macabre
Le Grande Macabre by Ligeti begins with what sound?
Four car horns
What opera by Massenet is based on a novel by Abbé Prevost?
Manon
Which story from Greek myth has been turned into operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Glass and Offenbach?
Orpheus and Eurydice?
Which composer is considered one of the founding fathers of the operatic form? They are known for works including L’Orfeo
Montiverdi
Which of Mozart’s operas concerns the King of Crete being forced to sacrifice his own son?
Idemeneo
The opera Idemeneo is by which composer?
Mozart
The comic song the Love for Three Oranges is from which opera by Prokofiev?
War and Peace
The title character of which opera by Puccini is a seamstress called Mimi?
La Boheme
Scarpia and Cavadarossi are characters in which opera by Puccini, alongside the opera singer title character?
Tosca
Vissi d’arte is the key song from which opera by Puccini?
Tosca
Who is the title character of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly?
Cio Cio San
One Fine Day and The Humming Chorus appear in which opera by Puccini?
Madame Butterfly
Which of Puccini’s operas is based on a play by David Belasco?
Madame Butterfly
Which of Puccini’s operas was completed after his death?
Turandot
Which of Puccini’s operas is set in China?
Turandot
Which song, made famous by Pavarotti, comes from Puccini’s Turandot?
Nessun Dorma
