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