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Question:

Nemorino in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore gets a little tipsy on what he thinks is a love potion. What does he actually drink?

Response:

	Rum
	Wine
	Feedback: Correct! He's drinking wine which he's been sold as a love potion from a visiting quack doctor.
	Whiskey

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Which acclaimed German tenor, who died tragically young in 1966, allegedly used to drink a bottle of beer a day 'to help his voice grow'?

Response:

	Fritz Wunderlich
	Feedback: Correct! He was perhaps best known for his performances of Mozart operatic roles
	Andreas Dippel
	Ludwig Suthaus

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In which 1904 opera is Števa, the father of the eponymous heroine's unborn child, firmly told he may not marry her until he has sobered up for a year?

Response:

	Dvořák's 'The Jacobin'
	Janáček's 'Katya Kabanová'
	Janáček's 'Jenůfa'
	Feedback: Correct! The opera is based on the play 'Její pastorkyňa' by Gabriela Preissová

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Which composer asked us to show him the way to the next whiskey bar in 1927?

Response:

	Kurt Weill
	Benjamin Britten
	George Gershwin
	Feedback: It's Kurt Weill. The line comes from the 'Alabama Song' which appeared in Weill and Bertolt Brecht's opera 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny'

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Which Russian composer after years of alcoholism, was famously painted looking red-nosed and disheveled by Ilya Repin days before his death in 1881?

Response:

	Sergey Rachmaninov
	Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
	Feedback: It was Musorgsky, who along with Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin, was one of the group of Russian composers known as 'The Mighty Handful'
	Modest Musorgsky

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Which composer did his best to ruin Rachmaninov's First Symphony by turning up drunk to conduct the prmiere (or so reckoned Rachmaninov's wife)?

Response:

	Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
	César Cui
	Feedback: It was Glazunov, who was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov
	Alexander Glazunov

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Question:

Whose piano music was likened by Liszt to 'a draught of that wine of Cyprus that gives a more instinctive rapidity to all our gestures, a keener point to all our words, a more subtle flame to all our emotions…'?

Response:

	Chopin (his Polonaise fantasie, Op. 61)
	Feedback: Correct!
	Brahms (his Intermezzos, Op. 117, No. 1)
	Beethoven (his 'Moonlight' Piano Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2)

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Which composer, who was eventually prescribed alcohol by his doctor, said 'When I am standing in front of a grand orchestra and have drunk half a bottle of champagne, then I conduct like a young god'?

Response:

	Gustav Mahler
	Leonard Bernstein
	Feedback: It was the Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius
	Jean Sibelius

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Question:

In which musical drama of 1692 is a drunken poet tormented by being pinched by a group of fairies?

Response:

	Purcell's 'The Fairy Queen'
	Feedback: Correct! He sings 'Fill up the bowl' while the fairies tease him
	Handel's 'Ode for St Cecilia's Day'
	John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'

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Question:

Which of Repighi's Roman Trilogy features a drunken reveller at the end?

Response:

	Fountains of Rome
	Pines of Rome
	Roman Festivals
	Feedback: Correct!