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1. Who commissioned and wrote the libretto for Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'?
2. What was Gounod's most famous sacred song?
3. Who wrote the opera called 'Dido and Aeneas'?
4. Which of the following did not collaborate at some time or another with Jean-Baptiste Lully?
5. 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?
6. What is another term for jongleurs, in the historical sense of the word?
7. 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?
8. Who wrote 'you know my greatest desire is to write operas...I envy anyone who is composing one' to his father?
9. Verdi's opera 'Nabucodonosor' later became abbreviated as what?
10. Who created operas out of works by Henry James, Shakespeare and Herman Melville?
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