Giuseppe Verdi - Test
A) France B) Germany C) Spain D) Italy
A) Opera B) Country C) Jazz D) Hip hop
A) The Magic Flute B) Carmen C) La Traviata D) The Marriage of Figaro
A) China B) Greece C) Rome D) Egypt
A) Victor Hugo B) Leo Tolstoy C) Fyodor Dostoevsky D) William Shakespeare
A) Aida B) Rigoletto C) La Traviata D) Otello
A) Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio B) Il trovatore C) Falstaff D) Nabucco
A) France B) Germany C) Spain D) Italy
A) Hamlet B) Macbeth C) Othello D) Romeo and Juliet
A) Paris B) Vienna C) Milan D) Rome
A) Rigoletto B) La Traviata C) Falstaff D) Aida
A) Molière B) Anton Chekhov C) William Shakespeare D) Henrik Ibsen
A) La Traviata B) Don Carlos C) Otello D) Nabucco
A) Maria Callas B) Margherita Barezzi C) Guiseppeina Strepponi D) Catherine Gallagher
A) Rome B) Genoa C) Venice D) Milan
A) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe B) Thomas Mann C) Heinrich von Kleist D) Friedrich Schiller
A) Attila the Hun B) Joan of Arc C) Julius Caesar D) Alexander the Great
A) Charles Dickens B) Lord Byron C) Edgar Allan Poe D) Jane Austen
A) Richard Wagner B) Ludwig van Beethoven C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart D) Johann Sebastian Bach
A) Risorgimento B) Enlightenment C) Renaissance D) Inquisition
A) Un ballo in maschera B) La Traviata C) Falstaff D) Rigoletto
A) Antonio B) Giuseppe C) Giovanni D) Luciano
A) Nabucco B) Aida C) Rigoletto D) Macbeth
A) 1901 B) 1832 C) 1876 D) 1915
A) Dante Alighieri B) Petrarch C) Giacomo Leopardi D) Alessandro Manzoni
A) Attila B) Otello C) Macbeth D) Il Corsaro
A) Otello B) Il trovatore C) La Traviata D) Don Carlos
A) Va, pensiero B) Brindisi C) Libiamo ne' lieti calici D) Inno di Mameli
A) 1851 B) 1863 C) 1842 D) 1875
A) Painting portraits B) Writing symphonies C) Sculpting statues D) Composing operas
A) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven B) Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms C) Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti D) Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Schubert
A) 1871 B) 1893 C) 1887 D) 1865
A) Rigoletto B) Il trovatore C) Requiem D) La traviata
A) Teacher B) Grocer C) Innkeeper D) Organist
A) Vincenzo Lavigna B) Ferdinando Provesi C) Antonio Barezzi D) Gioachino Rossini
A) Rocester B) Nabucco C) Rigoletto D) Oberto
A) Luciano Pavarotti B) Enrico Caruso C) Maria Malibran D) Nellie Melba
A) Music teacher B) Wholesale grocer and distiller C) Opera singer D) Composer
A) 1835 B) 1836 C) 1837 D) 1834
A) Lavigna's B) Massini's C) Merelli's D) Barezzi's
A) Gilda B) Count di Luna C) The Duke of Mantua D) The hunchbacked jester
A) Luisa Miller B) I due Foscari C) Macbeth D) Jérusalem
A) It focuses on a mother, possibly related to her death. B) Verdi dedicated it to her memory. C) She was portrayed as one of the characters. D) She helped write the libretto.
A) Piave B) Cammarano C) Dumas fils D) Somma
A) Tuberculosis B) Cholera C) Pneumonia D) Encephalitis
A) Forty B) Thirty C) Fifty-seven D) Twenty-five
A) sixteen B) eighteen C) twelve D) ten
A) Technical difficulties with the stage B) Verdi's illness C) Political unrest D) Casting problems
A) No-one taught him orchestration. B) Bellini C) Rossini D) Lavigna
A) Twice as high as usual B) Fifty percent higher than usual C) The same as usual D) Thirty times higher than usual
A) One B) Two C) Three D) Four
A) Gustave III B) Simon Boccanegra C) Il trovatore D) Aida
A) Thirty B) Fifteen C) Twenty D) Ten
A) Rome B) Vienna C) Milan D) Paris
A) He declared it a resounding success. B) He decided to retire immediately after. C) He wrote: 'Was the fault mine or the singers'? Time will tell.' D) He rewrote the entire opera on the spot.
A) 57 B) 20 C) 30 D) 40
A) Giuseppe Sinopoli B) Daniel Barenboim C) Riccardo Muti D) Arturo Toscanini
A) Emanuele Muzio B) Solera C) Salvadore Cammarano D) Francesco Maria Piave
A) A duet between two main characters B) 'Va, pensiero' chorus C) An aria by the lead tenor D) The hymn 'Immenso Jehova'
A) 100,000 francs B) 200,000 francs C) 150,000 francs D) 60,000 francs
A) 820 singers B) 300 singers C) 500 singers D) 1000 singers
A) Please revise the entire libretto. B) This is not what I had in mind. C) Benissimo! Benissimo!... No one could have done better than you. D) I will need more time to consider this.
A) Cavour B) Garibaldi C) Victor Emmanuel II D) Mazzini
A) Verdi's decision to retire. B) Verdi's relationship with Giuseppina Strepponi C) Disagreements about Verdi's musical career. D) Financial disputes over Sant'Agata.
A) Otto Nicolai B) Giovanni Canti C) Bartolomeo Merelli D) Temistocle Solera
A) 'I vespri siciliani' B) 'Un ballo in maschera' C) 'La traviata' D) 'Simon Boccanegra'
A) Massini B) Lavigna C) Merelli D) Giovanni Canti
A) Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth B) Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos C) Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine D) Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser
A) Mid-1834 B) Late 1836 C) Early 1835 D) Early 1837
A) Naples B) Rome C) Venice D) Paris
A) Un giorno di regno B) Oberto C) Nabucodonosor D) La Scala
A) His ability to keep himself to himself B) His deep integrity C) His assurance and authority D) The autocratic rentier-cum-estate owner
A) Milan B) Rome C) Paris D) Busseto
A) Bartolomeo Merelli B) Giovanni Canti C) Otto Nicolai D) Temistocle Solera
A) Camille du Locle B) Giacomo Meyerbeer C) Auguste Mariette D) Antonio Ghislanzoni
A) 20 B) 13 C) 7 D) 5
A) In his home in Milan B) While visiting Rome C) At the Grand Hotel D) During a performance at La Scala
A) Milan's Cimitero Monumentale B) In Rome C) At the Grand Hotel de Milan D) In Busseto
A) immediately successful B) moderately well-received C) 'a fiasco' D) critically acclaimed
A) Stretto B) Tinta C) Finale D) Cabaletta
A) Paris B) Sant'Agata C) Collonges-sous-Salève D) Venice
A) Abramo Basevi B) Giuseppe Mazzini C) Gioachino Rossini D) Richard Wagner
A) Macbeth B) Otello C) La forza del destino D) Don Carlos
A) A patriotic letter urging unity. B) A request for financial support. C) A critique of his libretto. D) An invitation to join him in Paris.
A) Giuseppina Strepponi B) Teresa Stolz C) Antonietta Barezzi D) Filomena Maria Verdi
A) Attila B) Ernani C) Macbeth D) I Lombardi alla prima crociata
A) Turin B) Naples C) Rome D) Milan
A) Naples B) Venice C) Piacenza D) Rome
A) Arthur Schopenhauer B) Isaiah Berlin C) Immanuel Kant D) Friedrich Nietzsche
A) Othello B) Hamlet C) Macbeth D) King Lear
A) Giuseppe Verdi B) Franco Faccio C) Arrigo Boito D) Antonio Ghislanzoni
A) Mid-1834 B) 9 March 1842 C) Early 1835 D) November 1839
A) 26 March 1837 B) 22 October 1839 C) 11 July 1838 D) 12 August 1838
A) Il trovatore B) Rigoletto C) La traviata D) Stiffelio
A) 1874 B) 1859 C) 1861 D) 1880
A) La traviata B) Il trovatore C) Les vêpres siciliennes D) Rigoletto
A) Victorian B) Contemporary C) Medieval D) Renaissance
A) Massini B) Temistocle Solera C) Lavigna D) Merelli
A) 1859 B) 1861 C) 1874 D) 1848
A) Nobel Prize for Music B) Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. C) Knight of the Order of Merit D) Order of St. Michael |
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