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