What's in a name?

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Which composer was famously nicknamed 'Il Prete Rosso' (The Red Priest)?

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	Monteverdi
	Feedback: It was Vivaldi, because he had red hair
	Vivaldi
	Rossini

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What is the actual name of the female character who assumes the alter ego 'Fidelio' in Beethoven's opera?

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	Marzelline
	Leonore
	Feedback: Correct! She disguises herself as a prison guard called 'Fidelio' to rescue her husband, Florestan.
	Florestan

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Which conductor earned himself the nickname of The Screaming Skull?

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	Sir John Barbirolli
	Feedback: It was Sir Georg Solti. His fiery Hungarian temperament earned him the nickname, though as the critic Michael Scott Rohan wrote in the November 2012 issue of BBC Music Magazine, 'his character definitely mellowed with age'.
	Sir Malcolm Sargent
	Sir Georg Solti

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Which leading opera singer was known as La Stupenda?

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	Joan Sutherland
	Feedback: Correct! She was given the nickname, which means 'The stunning one', by the Italian press
	Beverly Sills
	Maria Callas

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Which orchestra founder changed his first name on moving to Britain in 1848 to make himself sound less German?

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	Charles Hallé
	Sir Georg Solti
	Feedback: It was Charles Hallé. He changed his name from Karl Halle
	Sir Thomas Beecham

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Which of Mozart's symphonies is known by the nickname Jupiter?

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	39
	40
	41
	Feedback: Correct! The symphony was Mozart's last and was written in the summer of 1788

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Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the subtitle of 'The Peer and the Peri'?

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	The Mikado
	Feedback: It's 'Iolanthe'. The comic opera tells the story of a band of fairies who stumble upon the world of the House of Lords
	Iolanthe
	HMS Pinafore

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Which opera singer's name, when translated into English, means 'Laid-back Sunday'?

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	Juan Diego Flórez
	Rolando Villazón
	Plácido Domingo
	Feedback: Correct!

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Which of Elgar's friends did the composer refer to as 'Nimrod' in his Enigma Variations?

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	Augustus J Jaeger
	Arthur Troyte Griffith
	Feedback: It was Augustus J Jaeger. He was a music editor with Novello & Co. and Elgar gave him the nickname 'Nimrod' because 'Jaeger' means hunter in German and Nimrod was an Old Testament patriarch described as 'a mighty hunter before the Lord'.
	Richard Penrose Arnold

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He may have been one of Germany's great composers, but his name reveals to us that he came from a family of Belgian farmers. And he is…

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	Robert Schumann
	Richard Wagner
	Ludwig van Beethoven
	Feedback: Correct! His surname roughly translates as 'from the beet fields'