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Quiz about Opera Characters Behaving Badly

Opera Characters Behaving Badly Quiz

Ten characters from opera who behave less than nobly will describe themselves. You guess who they are.

A multiple-choice quiz by fdgla. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
fdgla

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
104,802

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Easy

Avg Score
8 / 10

Plays
710

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. I'm quite the ladies' man. My servant, Leporello, does a good job in arranging dates for me. There is this new babe named Zerlina who will be the next conquest to put in my catalogue, but my old girlfriends Anna and Elvira keep bugging me! Hint

Count Almaviva

Don Giovanni

Don Ottavio

Osmin

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Question 2 of 10

2. I am another example of a good looking guy whom girls love. Countess Ceprano is getting a little old, but there is this cute little innocent named Gilda who is crazy about me! Hint

The Duke of Mantua

Jack Rance

Don Carlo

Canio

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Question 3 of 10

3. What did I do? Nothing, that's what! I can't help it if I have an amorous nature and sent three identical love letters to Alice Ford, Meg Page and Dame Quickly. I might be a little hefty now, but that just means there's more of me to love. Hint

John Falstaff

Oberon

Peter Grimes

Albert Herring

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Question 4 of 10

4. I pretend to be Otello's friend, but I hate him. He's such an idiot that he thinks I want to help him. He keeps calling me 'honest.' He has no idea I'm out to destroy him. Hint

Iago

Simon Boccanegra

Nabucco

Fidelio

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Question 5 of 10

5. So, Jokanaan thinks he's going to turn me down and get away with it! No way. Before the night's through I'll have his head on a platter. My stepfather, Herod, has a thing for me and my seven veils. He can refuse me nothing. Hint

Elektra

Lakme

Thais

Salome

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Question 6 of 10

6. I married Cio-Cio-San and had a child with her. Then I left Japan and returned to the United States. I always meant to write her and tell her we were through, but I never got around to it. Now I'm returning to Nagasaki with my new wife to bring my kid back to the States. I'm not a bad guy. Really! Hint

Sharpless

Dick Johnson

Lieutenant Pinkerton

Wozzeck

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Question 7 of 10

7. Even though she doesn't like me, I'm going to have Tosca. She's coming over tonight to bribe me with her body to get her boyfriend, Mario, out of jail. I'll have her and kill her boyfriend to boot. So who is going to stop me? Hint

Baron Scarpia

Count Orlovsky

Count di Luna

Baron Ochs

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Question 8 of 10

8. I am so bored here in the country. It is filled with such quaint rustics as Tatania, who wrote this silly letter saying she loved me! Poor child. Now, just because I flirted with my friend Lensky's girlfriend, he wants to have a duel with me. Get me out of here! Hint

Hermann

Andrei Bolkonsky

Pierre Bezukov

Eugene Onegin

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Question 9 of 10

9. I can't believe this guy Jose! Just because I used to be his girlfriend he thinks he owns me. I much prefer Escamillo. He's a bullfighter and he is SO gorgeous. My friends tell me to get out of town because Jose is looking for me. But I'm not running. You can't hide from fate. Hint

Carmen

Rosina

Eboli

Mignon

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Question 10 of 10

10. I was only trying to help! Buoso Donati died and left all his money to the monks. His relatives were frantic. As a favor to them I pretended to be the dying Donati and dictated a new will, leaving everything to myself! Donati's relatives weren't too happy with that either. You just can't please some people! Hint

Gianni Schicchi

Dr. Dulcamara

Dr. Malatesta

Belmonte

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Don Giovanni

The title character from Mozart's "Don Giovanni" is an example of a really rotten guy who is very likable. He gets dragged down to hell at the end for his evil ways.

2. I am another example of a good looking guy whom girls love. Countess Ceprano is getting a little old, but there is this cute little innocent named Gilda who is crazy about me!

Answer: The Duke of Mantua

The Duke of Mantua, from Verdi's "Rigoletto", has an attention span for girlfriends about as long as Don Giovanni. Unlike the Don, the Duke gets off free and clear.

Answer: John Falstaff

Falstaff, from Verdi's opera of the same name, might be a braggart, a cheat and a liar, but you gotta love him. If you don't know the opera, check it out. It's a lot of fun!

4. I pretend to be Otello's friend, but I hate him. He's such an idiot that he thinks I want to help him. He keeps calling me 'honest.' He has no idea I'm out to destroy him.

Answer: Iago

I can't think of a more rotten character in opera than Iago in Verdi's "Otello."

Answer: Salome

Richard Strauss' "Salome" features the title character who, if she were alive today, would be classified as antisocial and be serving time in a juvenile prison. She is so bad that she even disgusts her degenerate stepfather, who has her killed.

Answer: Lieutenant Pinkerton

Pinkerton, from Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", is one of my most disliked operatic characters. You would never guess that Pinkerton was such a rat from listening to his gorgeous music.

Answer: Baron Scarpia

Things don't work out for Scarpia quite as he had planned. Tosca kills him just when Scarpia thinks he has her. Puccini's "Tosca" has been a favorite with singers and audiences alike since its premiere.

Answer: Eugene Onegin

Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" ends not with violence, but with heartbreak. Onegin falls in love with Tatiana many years later, but he is too late since she is now married. Onegin has to win the award as the biggest snob in all of opera.

Answer: Carmen

Bizet's "Carmen" is one of the top three operas in terms of popularity. Carmen is a very challenging role, both vocally and dramatically.

Answer: Gianni Schicchi

Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" is a comic masterpiece. Gianni reveals to the audience at the end that he was condemned to the eighth circle of hell by Dante. That doesn't bother him too much. He just wants your applause.

Source: Author fdgla

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