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Opera Trivia

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1. Which opera does NOT have a principal character named Elvira?
La favorita ✓
I puritani ✓
Ernani ✓
Don Giovanni ✓
2. What is the name of Cio-Cio-San’s maid in Madama Butterfly?
Harley ✓
Suzuki ✓
Kawasaki ✓
Yamaha ✓
3. Which is an opera composed by Gioacchino Rossini?
Assedio di Firenze ✓
Le nozze di Figaro ✓
Il barbiere di Siviglia ✓
La mère coupable ✓
4. Where does the opera Norma take place?
An unspecified location in Scandinavia ✓
Gaul ✓
The outskirts of the city of Rome ✓
Anglo-Saxon England ✓
5. Which character sings «Nessun dorma» in the final act of Turandot?
Rinuccio ✓
Calaf ✓
Cavaradossi ✓
Rodolfo ✓
6. Which Valkyrie role did Wagner write for a contralto?
Schwertleite ✓
Ortlinde ✓
Waltraute ✓
Roßweiße ✓
7. Which of the following did NOT compose an operatic retelling of the Faust legend?
Hector Berlioz ✓
Charles Gounod ✓
Robert Schumann ✓
Ferruccio Busoni ✓
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust; Busoni: Doktor Faust; Gounod: Faust.
8. John Adams (1947- ) composed which opera?
The Prodigal Son ✓
Maria Golovin ✓
Antony and Cleopatra ✓
The Ice Break ✓
Samuel Barber composed an opera (arguably better known) of the same name.
9. Which musical number can you hear in a standard performance of Carmen?
The Flower Duet ✓
The Macarena ✓
The Toreador Song ✓
The Bell Song ✓
Escamillo sings «Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre» (The Toreador Song) in Act II.
10. In an 1831 Bellini opera, one of the principal characters sings an aria cantabile while she is …
Asleep ✓
Dying ✓
Drunk ✓
Offstage ✓
Amina, the main protagonist in La sonnambula is sleepwalking when she sings «Ah, non credea mirarti». Luckily, she wakes up in time to sing the cabaletta «Ah, non giunge».
11. Carlisle Floyd’s opera Susannah takes place in which U.S. state?
Kentucky ✓
Tennessee ✓
Oklahoma ✓
North Carolina ✓
12. The Kitchen Boy in Dvořák’s Rusalka is usually performed by …
A lyric tenor ✓
A non-speaking actor ✓
A treble ✓
A mezzo-soprano ✓
13. Which of the following is NOT known to have composed an opera based on one of Shakespeare’s plays?
Giuseppe Verdi ✓
Ottorino Respighi ✓
Benjamin Britten ✓
Ambroise Thomas ✓
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Thomas: Hamlet; Verdi: Macbeth, Otello, Falstaff.
14. In this one-act opera, a troubled woman discloses (during a telephone conversation) her recent suicide attempt.
The Telephone (Gian Carlo Menotti) ✓
La voix humaine (Francis Poulenc) ✓
Night (Lorenzo Ferrero) ✓
Sancta Susanna (Paul Hindemith) ✓
15. Richard Wagner had a son who was also an opera composer. What was the son’s name?
Tristan Wagner ✓
Siegfried Wagner ✓
Sigmund Wagner ✓
Walther Wagner ✓
2 Comments
interopia
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Level 85
Sep 20, 2023
Cool first quiz, but hard!!! I only got four right. Also try Famous Operas!
arjaygee
+1
Level 66
Sep 20, 2023
Thank you. I had a lot of fun putting this together, but I thought it had been removed from the site because it had so few takers. Last time I checked, it wasn’t showing up in the search.

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