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1.
Which opera does NOT have a principal character named Elvira?
I puritani
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Don Giovanni
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La favorita
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Ernani
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2.
What is the name of Cio-Cio-San’s maid in Madama Butterfly?
Suzuki
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Yamaha
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Kawasaki
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Harley
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3.
Which is an opera composed by Gioacchino Rossini?
La mère coupable
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Assedio di Firenze
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Il barbiere di Siviglia
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Le nozze di Figaro
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4.
Where does the opera Norma take place?
Gaul
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The outskirts of the city of Rome
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An unspecified location in Scandinavia
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Anglo-Saxon England
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5.
Which character sings «Nessun dorma» in the final act of Turandot?
Calaf
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Rinuccio
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Rodolfo
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Cavaradossi
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6.
Which Valkyrie role did Wagner write for a contralto?
Schwertleite
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Roßweiße
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Ortlinde
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Waltraute
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7.
Which of the following did NOT compose an operatic retelling of the Faust legend?
Charles Gounod
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Robert Schumann
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Hector Berlioz
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Ferruccio Busoni
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust; Busoni: Doktor Faust; Gounod: Faust.
8.
John Adams (1947- ) composed which opera?
Maria Golovin
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Antony and Cleopatra
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The Prodigal Son
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The Ice Break
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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 Macarena
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The Flower Duet
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The Toreador Song
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The Bell Song
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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
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Dying
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Drunk
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Offstage
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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?
Tennessee
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Kentucky
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North Carolina
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Oklahoma
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12.
The Kitchen Boy in Dvořák’s Rusalka is usually performed by …
A lyric tenor
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A treble
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A mezzo-soprano
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A non-speaking actor
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13.
Which of the following is NOT known to have composed an opera based on one of Shakespeare’s plays?
Ambroise Thomas
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Ottorino Respighi
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Benjamin Britten
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Giuseppe Verdi
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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.
La voix humaine (Francis Poulenc)
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Sancta Susanna (Paul Hindemith)
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Night (Lorenzo Ferrero)
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The Telephone (Gian Carlo Menotti)
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15.
Richard Wagner had a son who was also an opera composer. What was the son’s name?
Walther Wagner
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Sigmund Wagner
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Siegfried Wagner
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Tristan Wagner
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