Chapter 44. Multimedia Hits: Verdi and Italian Romantic Opera

Drag the correct character to the form of "Bella figlia" from the Quartet in Act III of Verdi's Rigoletto.

A: DUKE B: GILDA, MADDALENA,DUKE,RIGOLETTO C: ALL CHARACTERS D: ALL CHARACTERS

False (it faded)

After her husband's composing career began to flourish, Giuseppina Strepponi enjoyed continued success as an opera singer into her last years.

buffa, bel-canto

In nineteenth-century Italy, audiences favored both the opera seria and opera - styles and the use of - singing.

voice and guitar arrangements, four-hand piano arrangements, wind band medleys

In the nineteenth century, opera excerpts were marketed to domestic consumers via which?

Match the term to its correct description.

Italian serious Correct label:opera seria beautiful singing CA: bel canto Italian comic opera Correct label:opera buffa

singer

Lind was a famous opera ______, not composer.

Match each character with their description as seen in Verdi's Rigoletto.

Maddalena = Sparafucile's sister Sparafucile = assassin Gilda = Rigoletto's daughter Rigoletto = court jester

China

Musical theater has been a form of entertainment in _____ for centuries.

True

Musical theater in China suffered greatly during Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution.

France, Singers

Romantic opera developed distinct national styles in Italy, Germany, and -, and women - excelled in all styles.

true

The bel canto style of singing is characterized by florid melodic lines.

strophic

The form of the aria "La donna è mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto is

Rossini, melodic

The operas of - marked the high point of the bel canto singing style, which is characterized by florid - lines.

Aida

Which Verdi opera is set in Egypt?

erhu, pipa, yang qin

Which of the following are traditional Chinese instruments?

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville, 1816) & Guillaume Tell (William Tell, 1829).

Which of these operas marked the high point of the singing style known as bel canto?

P. T. Barnum

Who managed the American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind?

Verdi

____was viewed as an Italian Nationalist Composer

What is the literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto?

a play by Victor Hugo

What is the historical setting of Rigoletto?

an Italian court during the Renaissance era

How was Verdi's music considered a national soundtrack for a new Italian spirit?

combination of appealing melodies and intense drama his operatic stories were read as calls for liberation

Jenny Lind was a famous nineteenth-century composer of opera.

false

Put the following events of Verdi's Rigoletto in their narrative order.

the duke and his jester, Rigoletto, are cursed by a nobleman. Rigoletto's daughter, Gilda is carried off by the duke and his conspirators. Maddelena lures the duke to a tavern where Gilda watches. Gilda sacrifices herself for the duke.

Giuseppe Verdi was viewed as an Italian nationalist composer.

true