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Prokofiev. It had its premier on April 29, 1929.
Puccini. Premiered in Paris on January 19, 1884.
Rossini. Rossini's premiered in 1816, Verdi's in 1887.
Adams. Believe it or not - it's an opera. Premiered in Boston on October 22, 1987. Characters include Nixon, Henry Kissinger and Pat Nixon.
Meyerbeer. Premiered in Paris on November 21, 1831.
Mussorgsky. Premiered in St. Petersburg on February 21, 1886.
Beeson. Premiered in New York City on March 25, 1965.
Delibes. Premeried in Paris on April 14, 1883.
Puccini. Premiered in Rome on January 14, 1900.
Busoni. Busoni's premiered in Zurich on May 11, 1917 while Puccini's premiered in Milan on April 25, 1926 (2 years after Puccini himself died).
Beethoven. Beethoven's only opera was 'Fidelio' which was first performed in Vienna in 1805.
'Abduction of Figaro'. 'Abduction of Figaro' is an opera spoof by the Weird Al of classical music P.D.Q.Bach.
| Which company sponsored the weekly international radio broadcast 'Live at the Met' until the end of thw 2003-2004 season? | The World Of Opera Man
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Shostakovich. If you picked the name that sounded Russian you were right.
John Adams. Wagner was dead long before Richard Nixon was born.
Adam Sandler. This was intended as a freebie for those who don't know much about opera but decided to take the quiz any way.
| Who commissioned and wrote the libretto for Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'? | Opera Trivia
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Purcell. Purcell was a British composer who wrote this opera in English. 'Dido and Aeneas' was created in 1689.
| The father of which famous scientist was a member of the influential intellectual Florentine group called the 'Florentine Camerata' who collaborated together to develop the art of recitativo? | Opera Trivia
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Galileo . Among this group included Jacopo Peri, who wrote the first opera, and composers Giulio Caccini and Emilio de Cavalieri.
| What is another term for jongleurs, in the historical sense of the word? | Opera Trivia
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minstrels. Not strictly an opera question, but the minstrels or jongleurs were part of the evolution into opera in the west.
| Which term refers to a group of individuals hired by a performer or composer to sit amongst the audience and influence the audience's response? | Opera Trivia
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| Who wrote 'you know my greatest desire is to write operas...I envy anyone who is composing one' to his father? | Opera Trivia
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Mozart. Mozart had a mixed relationship with his father, very devoted but also resentful.
| Verdi's opera 'Nabucodonosor' later became abbreviated as what? | Opera Trivia
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| Who created operas out of works by Henry James, Shakespeare and Herman Melville? | Opera Trivia
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Benjamin Britten. 'The Turn of the Screw', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Billy Budd'.
| Which composer of operetta often signed his autograph with a play on words based on his name and his city of birth? | Operantics I
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Jacques Offenbach. Jacques Offenbach, composer of 'Orphee aux enfers', 'La belle Helene', and 'La Perichole', often signed his name 'O. de Cologne.'
| Which Charles Dickens novel did Giacomo Puccini consider using as the basis for his final opera before choosing a libretto based on Carlo Gozzi's fairy tale drama, Turandot? | Operantics I
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Oliver Twist. He also considered subjects as diverse as Victor Hugo's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame', Giovanni Verga's 'La Lupa' (The She-Wolf) and Marie Antoinette as the bases for operatic projects.
| The characters of Armida (Armide), Rinaldo (Renaud), and Argante (Aronte, Astarotte) all figure in the works listed below. Which is NOT based on Torquato Tasso's 'La Gerusalemme liberata'? | Operantics I
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Rinaldo, George Frideric Handel. Gluck, Rossini and Dvorak all based their works on {Tasso;} Handel based his opera on an Italian translation of a libretto by Aaron Hill.
| In addition to Giacomo Puccini's 'Manon Lescaut', Abbe Prevost's 'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut' served as a source for a number of operas in a number of languages. Which composer did NOT set a version of this story? | Operantics I
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Sergei Prokofiev. Prokofiev did not set a version of Prevost's {work;} however, both Auber and Massenet wrote an opera titled 'Manon Lescaut' and Henze wrote a version of the story titled 'Boulevard Solitude'.
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