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