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1. What do Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata", and Mimi in Puccini's "La Bohème", have in common?
2. What links Cherubino in "The Marriage of Figaro" with Oktavian in "Der Rosenkavalier"?
3. What does Canio in Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" have in common with Verdi's Otello?
4. What is the common fate of Manrico in Verdi's "Il Trovatore" and Jokanaan (John the Baptist) in Richard Strauss's "Salome"?
5. What does Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust" have in common with Santuzza in Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana"?
6. What deceptions do Malatesta's nephew Carlo in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" and Despina in Mozart's "Così fan tutte" both practise?
7. What links Valentin in Gounod's "Faust" with the Commendatore in Mozart's "Don Giovanni"?
8. What does Bizet's Carmen have in common with the King of Sweden (or Governor of Boston) in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera"?
9. What stratagem appears in Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" and also in his "Don Giovanni"
10. The choruses "Gloire immortelle de nos aïeux" in Gounod's "Faust" and "Squilli, echeggi la tromba guerriera" in Verdi's "Il Trovatore" are sung by members of which profession?
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