Statistics for Operas: A very hard quiz (mostly)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
She makes cigarettes and flirts (Bizet)	Carmen	91%
Four friends who live in a Paris garret, one dies of tuberculosis (Puccini)	La Boheme	79%
Beethoven's only opera, he changed the name and wrote four overtures (Beethoven)	Fidelio	78%
A french courtesan who is asked to leave her lover by her father. She dies of tuberculosis (Verdi)	La Traviata	75%
Commissioned for the opening of the Suez Canal (Verdi)	Aida	74%
The Faust Legend (Gounod)	Faust	71%
Summertime is the best known tune (Gershwin)	Porgy and Bess	70%
She does a racy dance for her father, then has them bring her the head of John the Baptist. Her father thanks her by having her crushed to death. (Strauss)	Salome	66%
Premiered in Prague, written in a week, with the overture finished the day before the premiere (Mozart)	Don Giovanni	64%
A girl playing a boy dresses as a girl to avoid being sent to the army (Mozart)	Le nozze di Figaro	62%
A politician makes a remarkable trip to normalise relations (Adams)	Nixon in China	61%
He can only be saved from sailing the seas by a woman who shows true love (Wagner)	Der fliegende Holländer	59%
The second opera, about the same hapless couple (Monteverdi)	L'Orfeo	59%
Ask my name and I'm outta here! Oh look there's the 1:30 swan to Brabant (Wagner)	Lohengrin	54%
He goes mad after seeing the ghost of the prince he murdered (Musorgsky)	Boris Godunov	38%
Takes place in a Turkish Harem with an irritable drunken guard (Mozart)	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	38%
The Faust Legend (Berlioz)	La Damnation de Faust	36%
He came riding into Europe and pillaged (Verdi)	Attila	33%
A midsummer night's dream (Brtten)	A Midsummer Night's Dream	31%
Opera about a European who travels to North Africa to meet Papatacci (Rossini)	L'italiana in Algeri	28%
Wild Boars and Witches in the Wolf's Glenn on Walpurgisnacht (Weber)	Der Freischütz	27%
The first opera, about a doomed husband and wife (Peri)	Euridice	27%
A midsummer night's dream (Weber)	Oberon	26%
Farcical love in the 19th Century (Donizetti)	Don Pasquale	21%
A midsummer night's dream (Purcell)	The Fairy Queen	21%
The Faust Legend (Boito)	Mefistofile	18%
Not Faust, but son of the devil who dances with dead nuns (Meyerbeer)	Robert le Diable	16%
Farcical love in the 18th century (Cimarosa)	Il Matrimonio Segreto	11%
The first science fiction performed on stage (Haydn)	Il Mondo della Luna	10%
His only opera is about medieval knights in Belgium, like Lohengrin without the swan (Schumann)	Genoveva	8%
Charlton Heston starred in the non-musical remake (Massenet)	Le Cid	8%
Comedy Singspiel about marriage into a medical family (von Dittersdorf)	Doktor und Apotheker	1%