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