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1.Which opera does NOT have a principal character named Elvira?
I puritani✓
Don Giovanni✓
Ernani✓
La favorita✓
2.What is the name of Cio-Cio-San’s maid in Madama Butterfly?
Yamaha
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Kawasaki
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Harley
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Suzuki
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3.Which is an opera composed by Gioacchino Rossini?
Le nozze di Figaro✓
La mère coupable✓
Il barbiere di Siviglia✓
Assedio di Firenze✓
4.Where does the opera Norma take place?
Anglo-Saxon England
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Gaul
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The outskirts of the city of Rome
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An unspecified location in Scandinavia
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5.Which character sings «Nessun dorma» in the final act of Turandot?
Cavaradossi
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Rinuccio
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Calaf
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Rodolfo
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6.Which Valkyrie role did Wagner write for a contralto?
Schwertleite
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Roßweiße
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Waltraute
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Ortlinde
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7.Which of the following did NOT compose an operatic retelling of the Faust legend?
Hector Berlioz
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Ferruccio Busoni
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Charles Gounod
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Robert Schumann
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust; Busoni: Doktor Faust; Gounod: Faust.
8.John Adams (1947- ) composed which opera?
Antony and Cleopatra✓
The Ice Break✓
The Prodigal Son✓
Maria Golovin✓
Samuel Barber composed an opera (arguably better known) of the same name.
9.Which musical number can you hear in a standard performance of Carmen?
The Macarena
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The Toreador Song
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The Bell Song
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The Flower Duet
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Escamillo sings «Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre» (The Toreador Song) in Act II.
10.In an 1831 Bellini opera, one of the principal characters sings an aria cantabile while she is …
Dying
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Asleep
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Offstage
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Drunk
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Amina, the main protagonist in La sonnambula is sleepwalking when she sings «Ah, non credea mirarti». Luckily, she wakes up in time to sing the cabaletta «Ah, non giunge».
11.Carlisle Floyd’s opera Susannah takes place in which U.S. state?
Oklahoma
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North Carolina
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Tennessee
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Kentucky
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12.The Kitchen Boy in Dvořák’s Rusalka is usually performed by …
A mezzo-soprano
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A lyric tenor
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A non-speaking actor
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A treble
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13.Which of the following is NOT known to have composed an opera based on one of Shakespeare’s plays?
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