Opera

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Question:

In which old English county is Britten's Albert Herring set?

Response:

	Wiltshire
	Lincolnshire
	Suffolk
	Feedback: Correct! The opera is set in the town of Loxford, Suffolk

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In which opera was the final exit of lead soprano Eva Turner at the Lyric Opera in Chicago infamously given extra bounce by a trampoline?

Response:

	Verdi’s 'Aida'
	Puccini's 'Tosca'
	Feedback: Correct! In the final scene the title character throws herself off the battlements of the Castel Sant'Angelo.
	Massenet's 'Thaïs'

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Name the 1985 opera, based on a book by Maurice Sendak, whose heroine is a Sealyham Terrier called Jenny.

Response:

	Oliver Knussen’s 'Higgledy Pigglety Pop!'
	Alexander Raskatov’s 'A Dog’s Heart'
	Feedback: It was Oliver Knussen's 'Higgledy Pigglety Pop!'
	Jules Henri de Saint George’s Jenny

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Which great 20th-century opera singer is commemorated by a statue within a stone’s throw of Oslo Opera House?

Response:

	Luciano Pavarotti
	Kirsten Flagstad
	Maria Callas
	Feedback: It was Kirsten Flagstad, the Norwegian dramatic soprano who died in 1962

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‘God touched me with His little finger and said “write for the theatre, only for the theatre”.’ Which composer said this?

Response:

	Richard Strauss
	Feedback: It was Giacomo Puccini, whose operas include 'La bohème', 'Tosca' and 'Turandot'
	Charles Gounod
	Giacomo Puccini

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Which actress and comedienne made her Royal Opera House debut as the Duchesse de Crackentorp in Donizetti’s La Fille di Régiment in January 2007?

Response:

	Nikki Blonsky
	Dawn French
	Feedback: Correct!
	Whoopi Goldberg

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Which 1859 opera involving an assassination had, for reasons of political sensitivity, to be set in Boston, Massachusetts rather than 18th-century Sweden as originally planned?

Response:

	Daniel Auber's 'Gustave III'
	Verdi's 'Un Ballo in Maschera'
	Schumann's 'Genoveva'
	Feedback: It was Verdi's 'Un Ballo in Maschera' which is based on the play 'Gustave III', by French playwright Eugène Scribe about the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden

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What links the openings of Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Dvořák’s Rusalka and Julia Snapper’s You who will emerge from the flood?

Response:

	They all begin under water
	They all feature a magic ring
	Feedback: All of the operas begin under water
	They were all premiered in the same place

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Question:

'She’s sweet on Wagner. I think she’d die for Beethoven. She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune, and Verdi’s always creeping from her room’. Which British group sang these lyrics in their single Rockaria in 1977?

Response:

	Slade
	Mr Big
	The Electric Light Orchestra
	Feedback: Correct!