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