Opera

Question 1

Who wrote the opera Norma?

Answer 1

Bellini

Question 2

Which opera by Bellini tells the story of a Druidic priestess with a secret lover?

Answer 2

Norma

Question 3

Which opera by Berg was based on a play by Georg Buchner?

Answer 3

Wozzeck

Question 4

The opera Wozzeck is by which composer?

Answer 4

Berg

Question 5

Which Berlioz opera is a musical retelling of The Aeneid?

Answer 5

Les Troyens

Question 6

The central character of Bizet’s Carmen works in a factory producing what?

Answer 6

Cigarettes

Question 7

The Flower Song, the Toreador Somg and Habanera all come from which opera by Bizet?

Answer 7

Carmen

Question 8

Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande is known as what sort of tragedy?

Answer 8

Symbolist

Question 9

The Flower Duet comes from which opera by Delibes?

Answer 9

Lakme

Question 10

The Flower Duet in Delibes’ Lakme is a duet between Lakme and which other character?

Answer 10

Mallika

Question 11

The Elixir of Love is an opera by which composer?

Answer 11

Donizetti

Question 12

Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love concerns a quack doctor named what?

Answer 12

Dulcamara

Question 13

Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti is based on the novels of which writer?

Answer 13

Walter Scott

Question 14

Who composed the opera that became known as the French Orphee?

Answer 14

Gluck

Question 15

Which singer became closely associated with J’ai Perdu, Mon Eurydice in Gluck’s French Orphee?

Answer 15

Maria Callas

Question 16

Which song in Gluck’s French Orphee became associated with Maria Callas?

Answer 16

Jai Perdu, Mon Eurydice

Question 17

Which opera by Handel shares a name with a play by Shakespeare?

Answer 17

Julius Caesar

Question 18

Which opera by Janacek is about an unwanted baby being drowned?

Answer 18

Jenufa

Question 19

The opera Jenufa is by which Czech composer?

Answer 19

Janacek

Question 20

Hanna Glawari is the title character of which opera by Lehar?

Answer 20

The Merry Widow

Question 21

Which title character of an opera by Leoncavallo is named in The Tears of a Clown by Smokey Robinson?

Answer 21

Pagliacci

Question 22

Pagliacci is the only still regularly performed opera by which composer?

Answer 22

Leoncavallo

Question 23

What song from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci is popular with tenors?

Answer 23

Put on the Motley

Question 24

Which opera by Ligeti is set upon the brink of apocalypse?

Answer 24

Le Grand Macabre

Question 25

Le Grande Macabre by Ligeti begins with what sound?

Answer 25

Four car horns

Question 26

What opera by Massenet is based on a novel by Abbé Prevost?

Answer 26

Manon

Question 27

Which story from Greek myth has been turned into operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Glass and Offenbach?

Answer 27

Orpheus and Eurydice?

Question 28

Which composer is considered one of the founding fathers of the operatic form? They are known for works including L’Orfeo

Answer 28

Montiverdi

Question 29

Which of Mozart’s operas concerns the King of Crete being forced to sacrifice his own son?

Answer 29

Idemeneo

Question 30

The opera Idemeneo is by which composer?

Answer 30

Mozart

Question 31

The comic song the Love for Three Oranges is from which opera by Prokofiev?

Answer 31

War and Peace

Question 32

The title character of which opera by Puccini is a seamstress called Mimi?

Answer 32

La Boheme

Question 33

Scarpia and Cavadarossi are characters in which opera by Puccini, alongside the opera singer title character?

Answer 33

Tosca

Question 34

Vissi d’arte is the key song from which opera by Puccini?

Answer 34

Tosca

Question 35

Who is the title character of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly?

Answer 35

Cio Cio San

Question 36

One Fine Day and The Humming Chorus appear in which opera by Puccini?

Answer 36

Madame Butterfly

Question 37

Which of Puccini’s operas is based on a play by David Belasco?

Answer 37

Madame Butterfly

Question 38

Which of Puccini’s operas was completed after his death?

Answer 38

Turandot

Question 39

Which of Puccini’s operas is set in China?

Answer 39

Turandot

Question 40

Which song, made famous by Pavarotti, comes from Puccini’s Turandot?

Answer 40

Nessun Dorma