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