Opera and Classical

Question 1

Giuseppe Verdi* 5

Answer 1

Italian

• -Aida (Opera)
• -La Traviata (Opera) – based on Dumas’ (La dame aux Camélias)
• -Rigoletto (Opera)
• -Il Travatore (Opera)
• -The Anvil Chorus

Question 2

Puccini (*4)

Answer 2

Italian

Madam Butterfly (Opera)
Tosca (Opera)
La Boheme
Turandot (Unfinished Opera)

Question 3

Wagner *7

Answer 3

German

Tannhauser (Opera)
Parsifal (Opera)
Tristan and Isolde (Opera)
Lohengrin (Opera)
The Ring of Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle Opera)
The Flying Dutchman
Ride of the Valkyries

Question 4

Mozart*8

Answer 4

Austrian - Wife Constanze Weber

The Magic Flute (Opera)
Symphony #40 in G Minor
Jupiter Symphony #41
Elvira Madigan
The Marriage of Figaro (Opera)
Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera)
Don Giovanni (Opera)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A little night music)

Question 5

Ring Cycle Operas

Answer 5

Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold)
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
Siegfried
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)

Question 6

Rossini *2

Answer 6

Italian

Barber of Seville, William Tell

Question 7

Bizet

Answer 7

French

Carmen

Question 8

Berlioz

Answer 8

French

Les Troyens

Question 9

Gounod

Answer 9

French

Faust

Question 10

Smetana

Answer 10

Czech

The Bartered Bride

Question 11

Richard Strauss

Answer 11

German
German

Salome, Der rosenkavalier, Elektra

Question 12

Beethoven

Answer 12

German

Fidelio

Question 13

Engelbert Humperdink

Answer 13

German

Hansel and Gretel

Question 14

Norway

Answer 14

Edvard Grieg

Peer Gynt

Question 15

Finland

Answer 15

Jean “Finlandia” Sibelius

Question 16

Poland

Answer 16

Frederic “Lover of George Sand” Chopin

Question 17

Czechoslovakia

Answer 17

Antonin “new world Symphony” Dvorak

Question 18

Hungary (19th Century)

Answer 18

Franze “Wagner’s Father In Law” Liszt

Question 19

Hungary (20th Century)

Answer 19

Bela “Magya Folk Music” Bartok

Question 20

Armenia

Answer 20

Aram Khachaturian

Question 21

German Baroque Master

Answer 21

Bach

Question 22

Austrian Child Prodigy

Answer 22

Mozart

Question 23

Deaf Romantic Master

Answer 23

Beethoven

Question 24

3rd “eroica” symphony

Answer 24

Beethoven

Question 25

6th "Pastoral Symphony"

Answer 25

Beethoven

Question 26

9th "Choral Symphony"

Answer 26

Beethoven -- Ode to Joy

Question 27

Lullaby

Answer 27

Brahms - German

Question 28

Wedding March

Answer 28

Felix Mendelssohn - German

Question 29

Messiah

Answer 29

Handel (German/English)

Question 30

Water Music

Answer 30

Handel (German/English)

Question 31

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Answer 31

Richard Strauss - German

Question 32

Carmina Burana

Answer 32

Carl Orff - German

Question 33

Canon in D

Answer 33

Johann Pachelbel - German

Question 34

Waltzes in general and Blue Danube Waltz in Particular

Answer 34

Johann Strauss 2 (Austrian)

Question 35

Lieder Composer and Unfinished symphony

Answer 35

Schubert (Austrian)

Question 36

The planets

Answer 36

Gustave Holst (UK)

Question 37

Pomp and Circumstance

Answer 37

Edward Elgar (UK)

Question 38

Ave Maria

Answer 38

Gounod (france -- also Opera Faust)

Question 39

Symphonie Fantastique

Answer 39

Berlioz (france)

Question 40

The carnival of animals and danse macabre

Answer 40

Camille Saint-Saens (French)

Question 41

Bolero

Answer 41

Maurice Ravel (French)

Question 42

Prelude to the afternoon of a faun, La Mer, and Clair de Lune

Answer 42

Claude Debussy (French)

Question 43

The concept of Atonalism

Answer 43

Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian)

Question 44

Symphony of a Thousand, Husband of Alma Shindler

Answer 44

Gustav Mahler (Austrian)

Question 45

Nickname "Papa" - "Surprise Symphony"

Answer 45

Joseph Haydn (Austrian)

Question 46

Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris

Answer 46

George Gershwin (USA)

Question 47

The Four Seasons

Answer 47

Antonio Vivaldi (Italian)

Question 48

References to the notion of piano virtuosity

Answer 48

Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian)

Question 49

Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, and Fanfare for the Common Man

Answer 49

Aaron Copeland (USA)

Question 50

Grand Canyon Suite

Answer 50

Ferde Grofe (USA)

Question 51

4'33" of Silence | American Avant-Garde

Answer 51

John Cage (USA)

Question 52

1812 Overture

Answer 52

Tchaikovsky (Russian)

Question 53

Flight of the Bumblebee

Answer 53

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian)

Question 54

Night on Bald Mountain

Answer 54

Modest Mussorgsky (Russian)

Question 55

Peter and the Wolf

Answer 55

Sergie Prokofiev (Russian)

Question 56

Leningrad Symphony

Answer 56

Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian)

Question 57

References to the Notion of Violin Virtuosity

Answer 57

Niccolo Paganini

Question 58

Russian Ballet Composers

Answer 58

Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty) Stravinsky (Firebird, Rite of Spring, Petrushka) Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade)

Question 59

The Dying Swan

Answer 59

Anna Pavlova (Russian) (1881-1931)

Question 60

Baryshnikov

Answer 60

Defected to Canada in 1974, "The Turning Point" "Sex and the City"

Question 61

Accidental Automotive scarf-related death

Answer 61

Isadora Duncan

Question 62

Modern Dance American Ballet Choreographer

Answer 62

Martha Graham

Question 63

"Fancy Free" Choreographer and "West Side Story"

Answer 63

Jerome Robbins

Question 64

"Osage (Oklahoma) Heritage and Married ot George Balanchine and Sister Marjorie

Answer 64

Maria Tallchief

Question 65

"All That Jazz" and "Cabaret"

Answer 65

Bob Fosse

Question 66

"Rodeo" Choreographer and Niece of Cecil B. De Mille

Answer 66

Agnes de Mille

Question 67

Operetta

Answer 67

Librettist -- William S Gilbert Composer - Arthur Sullivan Savoy Theater -- HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, the Mikado, The Yeoman of the Guard, the Gondoliers, and Thespis (First Collaboration)

Question 68

Operetta from Waltz King

Answer 68

De Fledermaus (the bat) -- Johann Strauss