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