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