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Opera Trivia Trivia Quiz

If you love opera this quiz may appeal to you ... if you aren't familiar with opera perhaps this will be an interesting introduction.

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

Author
thejazzkickazz

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
28,604

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
1524

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Who commissioned and wrote the libretto for Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'? Hint

Johann Adolf Hasse

Emperor Joseph

Pietro Metastasio

Emanuel Schikaneder

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Question 2 of 10

2. What was Gounod's most famous sacred song? Hint

Ave Maria

Hallelujah

Le roi de Lahore

Saul og David

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who wrote the opera called 'Dido and Aeneas'? Hint

Handel

Beethoven

Purcell

Schubert

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which of the following did not collaborate at some time or another with Jean-Baptiste Lully? Hint

Robert Cambert

Francois Villon

Jean-Phillippe Quinault

Moliere

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Question 5 of 10

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?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is another term for jongleurs, in the historical sense of the word? Hint

conductors

minstrels

tenors

falsettos

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Question 7 of 10

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?

Answer: (One word....starts with C.)

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who wrote 'you know my greatest desire is to write operas...I envy anyone who is composing one' to his father? Hint

Verdi

Strauss

Mozart

Wagner

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Question 9 of 10

9. Verdi's opera 'Nabucodonosor' later became abbreviated as what?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who created operas out of works by Henry James, Shakespeare and Herman Melville? Hint

Gilbert and Sullivan

Benjamin Britten

Richard Strauss

Ralph Williams

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who commissioned and wrote the libretto for Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'?

Answer: Emanuel Schikaneder

2. What was Gounod's most famous sacred song?

Answer: Ave Maria

3. Who wrote the opera called 'Dido and Aeneas'?

Answer: Purcell

Purcell was a British composer who wrote this opera in English. 'Dido and Aeneas' was created in 1689.

4. Which of the following did not collaborate at some time or another with Jean-Baptiste Lully?

Answer: Francois Villon

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?

Answer: Galileo

Among this group included Jacopo Peri, who wrote the first opera, and composers Giulio Caccini and Emilio de Cavalieri.

6. What is another term for jongleurs, in the historical sense of the word?

Answer: minstrels

Not strictly an opera question, but the minstrels or jongleurs were part of the evolution into opera in the west.

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?

Answer: claque

8. Who wrote 'you know my greatest desire is to write operas...I envy anyone who is composing one' to his father?

Answer: Mozart

Mozart had a mixed relationship with his father, very devoted but also resentful.

9. Verdi's opera 'Nabucodonosor' later became abbreviated as what?

Answer: Nabucco

10. Who created operas out of works by Henry James, Shakespeare and Herman Melville?

Answer: Benjamin Britten

'The Turn of the Screw', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Billy Budd'.

Source: Author thejazzkickazz

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