A) France B) Germany C) Spain D) Italy
A) Jazz B) Country C) Opera D) Hip hop
A) The Marriage of Figaro B) The Magic Flute C) La Traviata D) Carmen
A) Rome B) Greece C) China D) Egypt
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) William Shakespeare C) Victor Hugo D) Leo Tolstoy
A) Otello B) La Traviata C) Rigoletto D) Aida
A) Nabucco B) Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio C) Falstaff D) Il trovatore
A) Italy B) France C) Germany D) Spain
A) Macbeth B) Othello C) Romeo and Juliet D) Hamlet
A) Milan B) Paris C) Vienna D) Rome
A) Rigoletto B) La Traviata C) Aida D) Falstaff
A) Anton Chekhov B) Molière C) William Shakespeare D) Henrik Ibsen
A) Otello B) Don Carlos C) La Traviata D) Nabucco
A) Catherine Gallagher B) Maria Callas C) Margherita Barezzi D) Guiseppeina Strepponi
A) Genoa B) Rome C) Venice D) Milan
A) Friedrich Schiller B) Heinrich von Kleist C) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe D) Thomas Mann
A) Attila the Hun B) Julius Caesar C) Alexander the Great D) Joan of Arc
A) Lord Byron B) Jane Austen C) Charles Dickens D) Edgar Allan Poe
A) Johann Sebastian Bach B) Ludwig van Beethoven C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart D) Richard Wagner
A) Renaissance B) Enlightenment C) Risorgimento D) Inquisition
A) Un ballo in maschera B) Falstaff C) Rigoletto D) La Traviata
A) Giovanni B) Luciano C) Giuseppe D) Antonio
A) Nabucco B) Rigoletto C) Aida D) Macbeth
A) 1832 B) 1876 C) 1901 D) 1915
A) Petrarch B) Alessandro Manzoni C) Dante Alighieri D) Giacomo Leopardi
A) Il Corsaro B) Otello C) Attila D) Macbeth
A) Otello B) Il trovatore C) La Traviata D) Don Carlos
A) Brindisi B) Va, pensiero C) Libiamo ne' lieti calici D) Inno di Mameli
A) 1875 B) 1863 C) 1842 D) 1851
A) Writing symphonies B) Painting portraits C) Composing operas D) Sculpting statues
A) Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti B) Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms C) Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Schubert D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven
A) 1865 B) 1893 C) 1887 D) 1871
A) Il trovatore B) Rigoletto C) La traviata D) Requiem
A) Innkeeper B) Teacher C) Grocer D) Organist
A) Ferdinando Provesi B) Gioachino Rossini C) Antonio Barezzi D) Vincenzo Lavigna
A) Rocester B) Rigoletto C) Nabucco D) Oberto
A) Enrico Caruso B) Nellie Melba C) Maria Malibran D) Luciano Pavarotti
A) Composer B) Wholesale grocer and distiller C) Opera singer D) Music teacher
A) 1835 B) 1836 C) 1834 D) 1837
A) Lavigna's B) Merelli's C) Barezzi's D) Massini's
A) Count di Luna B) The hunchbacked jester C) The Duke of Mantua D) Gilda
A) Jérusalem B) Macbeth C) I due Foscari D) Luisa Miller
A) She was portrayed as one of the characters. B) She helped write the libretto. C) It focuses on a mother, possibly related to her death. D) Verdi dedicated it to her memory.
A) Cammarano B) Piave C) Somma D) Dumas fils
A) Tuberculosis B) Cholera C) Encephalitis D) Pneumonia
A) Forty B) Thirty C) Fifty-seven D) Twenty-five
A) eighteen B) ten C) twelve D) sixteen
A) Casting problems B) Political unrest C) Verdi's illness D) Technical difficulties with the stage
A) Lavigna B) Rossini C) No-one taught him orchestration. D) Bellini
A) Thirty times higher than usual B) The same as usual C) Twice as high as usual D) Fifty percent higher than usual
A) Two B) Four C) Three D) One
A) Gustave III B) Simon Boccanegra C) Il trovatore D) Aida
A) Twenty B) Ten C) Fifteen D) Thirty
A) Paris B) Milan C) Vienna D) Rome
A) He declared it a resounding success. B) He rewrote the entire opera on the spot. C) He wrote: 'Was the fault mine or the singers'? Time will tell.' D) He decided to retire immediately after.
A) 30 B) 57 C) 40 D) 20
A) Riccardo Muti B) Arturo Toscanini C) Daniel Barenboim D) Giuseppe Sinopoli
A) Francesco Maria Piave B) Emanuele Muzio C) Solera D) Salvadore Cammarano
A) A duet between two main characters B) The hymn 'Immenso Jehova' C) 'Va, pensiero' chorus D) An aria by the lead tenor
A) 60,000 francs B) 200,000 francs C) 150,000 francs D) 100,000 francs
A) 1000 singers B) 500 singers C) 300 singers D) 820 singers
A) This is not what I had in mind. B) I will need more time to consider this. C) Please revise the entire libretto. D) Benissimo! Benissimo!... No one could have done better than you.
A) Victor Emmanuel II B) Garibaldi C) Cavour D) Mazzini
A) Financial disputes over Sant'Agata. B) Disagreements about Verdi's musical career. C) Verdi's decision to retire. D) Verdi's relationship with Giuseppina Strepponi
A) Bartolomeo Merelli B) Giovanni Canti C) Otto Nicolai D) Temistocle Solera
A) 'Simon Boccanegra' B) 'La traviata' C) 'I vespri siciliani' D) 'Un ballo in maschera'
A) Lavigna B) Massini C) Giovanni Canti D) Merelli
A) Giacomo Meyerbeer's L'Africaine B) Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos C) Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth D) Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser
A) Early 1835 B) Early 1837 C) Mid-1834 D) Late 1836
A) Paris B) Naples C) Venice D) Rome
A) Un giorno di regno B) Nabucodonosor C) Oberto D) La Scala
A) The autocratic rentier-cum-estate owner B) His deep integrity C) His ability to keep himself to himself D) His assurance and authority
A) Rome B) Milan C) Busseto D) Paris
A) Otto Nicolai B) Temistocle Solera C) Giovanni Canti D) Bartolomeo Merelli
A) Auguste Mariette B) Giacomo Meyerbeer C) Antonio Ghislanzoni D) Camille du Locle
A) 13 B) 20 C) 7 D) 5
A) At the Grand Hotel B) While visiting Rome C) In his home in Milan D) During a performance at La Scala
A) In Busseto B) In Rome C) At the Grand Hotel de Milan D) Milan's Cimitero Monumentale
A) moderately well-received B) critically acclaimed C) immediately successful D) 'a fiasco'
A) Tinta B) Stretto C) Cabaletta D) Finale
A) Venice B) Collonges-sous-Salève C) Sant'Agata D) Paris
A) Giuseppe Mazzini B) Richard Wagner C) Abramo Basevi D) Gioachino Rossini
A) La forza del destino B) Macbeth C) Don Carlos D) Otello
A) An invitation to join him in Paris. B) A critique of his libretto. C) A patriotic letter urging unity. D) A request for financial support.
A) Filomena Maria Verdi B) Teresa Stolz C) Giuseppina Strepponi D) Antonietta Barezzi
A) Ernani B) Macbeth C) Attila D) I Lombardi alla prima crociata
A) Milan B) Naples C) Rome D) Turin
A) Naples B) Rome C) Venice D) Piacenza
A) Isaiah Berlin B) Immanuel Kant C) Friedrich Nietzsche D) Arthur Schopenhauer
A) Hamlet B) Othello C) Macbeth D) King Lear
A) Franco Faccio B) Antonio Ghislanzoni C) Arrigo Boito D) Giuseppe Verdi
A) 9 March 1842 B) Mid-1834 C) November 1839 D) Early 1835
A) 26 March 1837 B) 22 October 1839 C) 12 August 1838 D) 11 July 1838
A) Il trovatore B) Rigoletto C) Stiffelio D) La traviata
A) 1874 B) 1861 C) 1880 D) 1859
A) Les vêpres siciliennes B) La traviata C) Rigoletto D) Il trovatore
A) Victorian B) Medieval C) Contemporary D) Renaissance
A) Massini B) Lavigna C) Merelli D) Temistocle Solera
A) 1848 B) 1861 C) 1859 D) 1874
A) Nobel Prize for Music B) Knight of the Order of Merit C) Order of St. Michael D) Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. |