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1.
  Carmen    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
For everyone that loves the opera 'Carmen'. A few basic questions on the background and the plot.
Easier, 10 Qns, kissaki, Nov 15 21
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kissaki
Nov 15 21
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  'Carmen': from Book to Opera    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
About the origin of one of the world's great operas.
Average, 15 Qns, tjoebigham, Nov 15 21
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tjoebigham
Nov 15 21
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trivia question Quick Question
In a 40's film version of the Merimee original (no arias!) who played Carmen?

From Quiz "'Carmen': from Book to Opera"




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Georges Bizet Trivia Questions
1. Who was the original author of the novella that the opera "Carmen" was based upon?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Prosper Merimee

Today Merimee is barely remembered, and if so, only through his connection with the opera.

2. Who wrote the wonderful opera 'Carmen'?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: Bizet

It was French composer Georges Bizet.

3. Who wrote the story 'Carmen' is based on?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: Prosper Merimee

4. What is Carmen's nationality?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Spanish

She's a Spanish Gypsy, actually. The Gypsies were thought to have come from Egypt, hence the name, but they originated from India. They have settled in practically all lands.

5. In what country does Carmen take place?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: Spain

6. Where does Don Jose come from?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Navarre

Jose was a soldier born in Navarre, a northern province of Spain.

7. What people does Carmen belong to?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: Gypsies

She is a gypsy woman.

8. Where did Carmen work?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: cigarette factory

Remember the first act song of the cigarette girls as they smoked and seduced the men on their break? Heady stuff for those times!

9. Who sings the habanera ('L'amour est un oiseau rebelle')?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: Carmen

A lovely song, maybe the most well known. Carmen sings it when she and the other girls come out of the factory.

10. Why was Carmen arrested?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: fighting with another girl

Carmen got into an exchange of insults with a co-worker and slashed the latter's cheeks with a knife.

11. From whom does Micaela bring a letter to Don Jose?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: His mother

It is a letter from his poor sick mother.

12. Who is Jose's former fiancee, whom he throws over for Carmen?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Michaela

The rather boringly virtuous Michaela stands no chance against the gypsy siren.

13. What does Carmen do for a living?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: Works in a cigarette factory

She works in a cigarette factory where only women work. All the men stand outside to look at them when they come out from the factory.

14. Who was the Captain that Jose fought with over Carmen?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Zuniga

When Carmen seemed to show interest in Jose's superior, the jealous soldier fought the Captain, but her gypsy comrades overpowered Zuniga and drove him off with pistols.

15. Who does Carmen leave Don Jose for?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: Escamillo

She leaves him for Escamillo - the matador.

16. Who were the opera's librettists?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Meilhac and Halevy & Halevy and Meilhac

Opera composers rarely wrote their own librettos.

17. What happens to Carmen in the end?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: Don Jose kills her

Don Jose stabs her outside the bullfighting arena.

18. When did the opera debut?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: 1875

'Carmen' failed dismally because audiences were unaccustomed to its {realism;} today it is a mainstay of the operatic repertoire.

19. When was "Carmen" first performed?

From Quiz Carmen

Answer: 1875

Carmen debuted in Paris' Opera Comique March third, 1875.

20. What Cuban dance did Bizet borrow for Carmen's first aria?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Habanera

Who can forget Carmen singing that Habanera?

21. Where does Jose jealously kill Carmen?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: outside the bullring

Enraged that Carmen has dumped him for bullfighter Escamillo, Don Jose stabs the gypsy to death while Escamillo is cheered in triumph.

22. How many other operas did Bizet compose?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: four

They are 'The Pearl Fishers', 'Don Rodrigue', 'Djamileh' and 'The Fair Maid of Perth', none being performed as much as 'Carmen'.

23. In a 40's film version of the Merimee original (no arias!) who played Carmen?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Rita Hayworth

Best known for playing Gilda, Hayworth was really Margarita Cansino, of Spanish descent and a dancer since childhood, so Carmen was tailor-made for her.

24. What was the musical adaptation of the opera that later became a movie?

From Quiz 'Carmen': from Book to Opera

Answer: Carmen Jones

Adapted by Oscar Hammerstein II in the WWII era, Otto Preminger brought it to the screen in the 50's...and had an affair with its leading lady Dorothy Dandridge (Halle Berry played her on HBO). Harry Belafonte co-starred.

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