Opera

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Lorenzo Da Ponte supplied composers with over 40 librettos, including "Cosi fan tutte" for this man

W.A. Mozart

Operas by this composer include "Cosi Fan Tutte" & "The Magic Flute"

W.A. Mozart

This Austrian composer's 1790 opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" is set in 18th c. Naples

W.A. Mozart

This Austrian was just 14 when he composed his 1770 opera "Mitridate, Re Di Ponto"

W.A. Mozart

This poet whose initials stood for Wystan Hugh co-authored the libretto for Henze's opera "The Bassarids"

W.H. Auden

"Twilight of the Gods" is the last part of this composer's "Ring" cycle

Wagner

Guinness says the longest commonly performed opera is his "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg"

Wagner

He wrote Brunhilde's immolation, opera's longest aria of nearly 15 minutes

Wagner

His opera "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" was inspired by Hans Sachs, who wrote more than 4,200 Meisterlieder

Wagner

The Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany was built as a place for this composer to stage his operas

Wagner

This composer of the opera "Siegfried" named his only son Siegfried

Wagner

Puccini: "The Girl of the Golden ____"

West

This term for the principal female singer of an opera company is Italian for "first lady"

prima donna

We're not stringing you along: "El Retablo de Maese Pedro" is meant to be peformed by these toys

puppets

In "The English Cat", a cat is a president of the R.S.P.R.--The Royal Society for Protection of these rodents

rats

Tenor Leo Slezak covered a staging mistake in "Lohengrin" by ad-libbing, "What time is the next" this graceful bird

swan

Gian Carlo Menotti's 1963 opera "Labyrinth" was written for this medium

television

Handel's "Berenice, Queen of Egypt" took a hiatus from the stage from the first part of this century to 1985

the 18th century

In "Johnny Strikes Up", a violin performance at the North Pole inspires the whole world to do this 1920s dance

the Charleston

The Catholic Marguerite de Valois is a pivotal character in the 1836 opera named for these French Protestants

the Huguenots

Act IV of the opera "Moses in Egypt" features the miraculous parting of this sea

the Red Sea

The first part of Wagner's "Ring" cycle takes place on this river

the Rhine

The seductive Queen of Shemakha sings a "Hymn to" this heavenly body in "Le Coq d'Or"

the Sun

Bennelong Point, the site of this opera house, was home to several Aboriginal clans when Europeans arrived

the Sydney Opera House

In 1973 the Australian opera's production of Prokofiev's "War and Peace" was the first performance at this landmark

the Sydney Opera House

In a comic opera by Menotti, Lucy is addicted to talking on this invention--does that ring a "bell"?

the telephone

"Masculine Singular Ablative in Latin for Faithful or True"

Fidelio

Fragments of the "Ode to Joy" appear in the libretto of this 1805 opera, the composer's only one

Fidelio

In a Beethoven opera, Leonore disguises herself as this boy

Fidelio

In this Beethoven opera, Leonore gives the weak, imprisoned Florestan some bread

Fidelio

This Beethoven opera features the wonderful quartet "Mir ist so wunderbar"

Fidelio

This Beethoven opera was based on a play called "Leonore"

Fidelio

This Beethoven opera was originally titled "Leonore"

Fidelio

"The Marriage of" this servant of Count Almaviva was once banned in France lest it incite the lower classes to revolt

Figaro

He was "The Barber of Seville" prior to becoming Count Almaviva's valet

Figaro

He's the local barber & general busybody in an 1816 Rossini opera

Figaro

In an 1816 opera, he's the Barber of Seville

Figaro

The "marriage" of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva's chateau

Figaro

She wrote the libretto for "The Mother of Us All"; maybe that's why it features a character named "Gertrude S."

Gertrude Stein

"Il Trittico" -- "The Triptych" -- is a trilogy of one-act operas by this composer of "Tosca"

Giacomo Puccini

"The Witches", the 1st opera by this composer of "Madama Butterfly", may be based on the ballet "Giselle"

Giacomo Puccini

Maria Callas was noted for her passionate performance in this composer's "Tosca"

Giacomo Puccini

Minnie runs a saloon in a California mining camp in this Italian composer's opera "The Girl of the Golden West"

Giacomo Puccini

This "Turandot" composer's opera "Sister Angelica" is set in a convent & has an all-female cast

Giacomo Puccini

"Pineapple Poll" is a ballet with music from works by this "Pinafore" pair

Gilbert & Sullivan

"Princess Ida" is "A respectful operatic per-version of Tennyson's 'Princess' " by this duo

Gilbert & Sullivan

In 1829, after his move to Paris, this Italian composer wrote "William Tell"

Gioachino Rossini

Be on the alert: "Alerta! Alerta!", one of his longest bass arias, appears in his opera "Il Trovatore"

Giuseppe Verdi

Composer who turned Victor Hugo's play "Le Roi S'Amuse" into "Rigoletto"

Giuseppe Verdi

He was in his 70s when he composed "Otello" in 1887 & "Falstaff" in 1893

Giuseppe Verdi

His "Il Trovatore" contains the "Anvil Chorus", a favorite of male choirs the world over

Giuseppe Verdi

Originally, this composer's opera "Rigoletto" was titled "La Maledizione" ("The Curse")

Giuseppe Verdi

This composer's "Rigoletto" is based on Victor Hugo's play "Le Roi S'Amuse" ("The King Amuses Himself")

Giuseppe Verdi

Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister wrote a 1967 opera based on this author's "Madame Bovary"

Gustave Flaubert

Dick Deadeye, a sailor; Admiral Sir Joseph Porter; Captain Corcoran

H.M.S. Pinafore

In "Die Tote Stadt", Marietta has more than a brush with death: she's strangled with this from a dead woman

Hair

"Amleto"

Hamlet

Ambroise Thomas' opera about this man differs from Shakespeare's play; in the opera, he becomes king of Denmark

Hamlet

"Ib and Little Christina" & "The Emperor's New Clothes" are operas based on his fairy tales

Hans Christian Andersen

As a student, film composer Nino Rota based an opera on this Dane's fairy tale "The Prince And The Swineherd"

Hans Christian Andersen

It's no fairy tale: Elvis Costello wrote & starred in a 2005 opera about this Danish fairy tale author

Hans Christian Andersen

Numerous operas, including "The Little Match Girl", have been based on this Dane's fairy tales

Hans Christian Andersen

Angels guard this duo while they sleep in the forest in an 1893 opera

Hansel & Gretel

At the beginning of an 1893 opera, these little tykes are sent into the woods to pick strawberries

Hansel & Gretel

In an 1893 opera, Peter is the father of these gingerbread-gorgers

Hansel & Gretel

In an 1893 opera, the Sandman puts this young title duo to sleep & the Dew Fairy wakes them up

Hansel & Gretel

The witch in this 1893 Humperdinck opera is sometimes played by a man

Hansel & Gretel

They were the son & daughter of Peter, a poor broom maker & his wife, Gertrude

Hansel & Gretel

The text of this 1893 Engelbert Humperdinck opera was written by his sister, Adelheid Wette

Hansel And Gretel

Adelheid Wette, Engelbert Humperdinck's sister, wrote the libretto for this 1893 opera of a fairy tale pair

Hansel and Gretel

Gingerbread figures prominently in this 1893 Humperdinck opera

Hansel and Gretel

Gingerbread figures turn back into boys & girls when the witch's spell is broken in this opera

Hansel and Gretel

In a famous fairy tale opera, these 2 children turn the witch into a giant cookie -- serves her right

Hansel and Gretel

In this opera based on a Grimm fairy tale, the witch lures 2 kids into her gingerbread house

Hansel and Gretel

Of all the operas we know, this 1893 work based on a Grimm role has the most gingerbread in it

Hansel and Gretel

The "Hexenritt", or "Witches' Ride", is sung in Act III of this 1893 fairy tale opera

Hansel and Gretel

This 1893 opera based on a children's tale is set partly in the woods of Ilsenstein

Hansel and Gretel

This Humperdinck opera developed from verses written by his sister which were based on a Grimm fairy tale

Hansel and Gretel

Thea Musgrave's opera about her, "Harriet, a Woman Called Moses", has 2 acts: "From Bondage" & "To Freedom"

Harriet Tubman

"Les Troyens A Carthage" was the only part of his long opera "Les Troyens" performed during his lifetime

Hector Berlioz

This woman of Troy shows up in several operas, including "Mefistofele"

Helen

After his death in 1958, Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto's opera "Juha" premiered on radio in this capital

Helsinki

Operas based on this Norwegian's plays include "The Feast at Solhaug" & "Peer Gynt"

Henrik Ibsen

Composer Douglas Moore took flight with "The Wings of the Dove", based on a 1902 novel by this author

Henry James

Casting call for "Anna Bolena"! You'll need to sing bass (& gain 200 pounds) to play this hefty English king

Henry VIII

Cavalli's 17th century opera "Ercole Amante" tells the story of this mythological laborer in love

Hercules

Spontini's opera about this adventurer's conquest of Mexico premiered in 1809

Hernando Cortez

Coppelius & Dr. Miracle appear in "The Tales of" him

Hoffmann

Jacques Offenbach died on Oct. 5, 1880, 4 months before his "Tales of" this poet was first produced

Hoffmann

"Hunyadi Laszlo" is one of this country's best-loved operas

Hungary

Ferenc Erkel's 1844 work "Hunyady Laszlo" is one of this country's most famous operas

Hungary

Vassily disguises himself as a woman but is seen shaving in this "Firebird" composer's opera "Mavra"

Igor Stravinsky

"Lakme" is set in this country, where Lakme is the daughter of a Brahman priest

India

A flop when it debuted in 1904, this Puccini opera set in Nagasaki later became one of the best-loved operas

Madame Butterfly

Act I of this opera opens at Pinkerton's house in Nagasaki

Madame Butterfly

Cio Cio San, a young Japanese woman

Madame Butterfly

Cio-Cio-San's better-known name

Madame Butterfly

Cio-Cio-San, a Japanese woman; Lieutenant Pinkerton, USN; Suzuki, a servant

Madame Butterfly

Her uncle The Bonze curses her for renouncing her religion to marry Lt. B.F. Pinkerton

Madame Butterfly

If this heroine had married Prince Yamadori, there might not be that nasty suicide in Act III

Madame Butterfly

Lt. Pinkerton's girlfriend Cio-Cio-San

Madame Butterfly

Nagasaki is the scene of this tragic 1904 opera

Madame Butterfly

Puccini included a passage from "The Star-Spangled Banner" in one of Pinkerton's numbers in this opera

Madame Butterfly

The title figure of this Puccini opera is Cio-Cio San

Madame Butterfly

This heroine's Japanese name is Cio-Cio-San

Madame Butterfly

This opera ends with the title madam committing hara-kiri

Madame Butterfly

This opera's best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San's "Un Bel Di Vedremo"

Madame Butterfly

This explorer turns up as a character in "A Night at the Chinese Opera"

Marco Polo

Ari liked the arias of this Greek diva who was nicknamed "La Divina"

Maria Callas

You're such a diva that folks compare you to this Greek soprano who was born in NYC in 1923

Maria Callas

"Der Rosenkavalier" takes place in Vienna during the reign of this archduchess

Maria Theresa

In 1956 this black contralto published her autobiography, "My Lord, What A Morning"

Marian Anderson

The title character of "Maria Stuarda" is better known in English by this name

Mary Stuart

A singing sofa & a chorus of frogs are featured in "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" by this "Bolero" composer

Maurice Ravel

Concepcion's lovers hide inside clocks in her husband's shop in "L'Heure Espagnole" by this "Bolero" composer

Maurice Ravel

If you like singing furniture--& who doesn't?--you'll love "L'enfant et les sortileges" by this "Bolero" composer

Maurice Ravel

This "Bolero" composer's opera "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" features a singing squirrel

Maurice Ravel

His children's books "Higglety Pigglety Pop!" & "Where the Wild Things Are" have been turned into operas

Maurice Sendak

Darius Milhaud wrote a 1932 opera about this Hapsburg emperor of Mexico

Maximilian

Satan, using this name, appears to Faust & agrees to give him youth in return for his soul

Mephistopheles

Spontini's 1809 opera "Fernand Cortez" is also called "The Conquest Of" this country

Mexico

"The Jesters' Supper" was first performed in this city where you'll find Da Vinci's "Last Supper"

Milan

In "La Boheme" Rodolfo lights her fire; they meet when she asks him to light her candle

Mimi

In "La boheme" the poet Rodolfo falls in love with this seamstress who suffers from tuberculosis

Mimi

A one-act opera based on an episode in "Great Expectations" is called this woman's "Wedding night"

Miss Havisham

1892: Tonio & Beppe, a couple of clowns

Pagliacci

A highlight of Enrico Caruso's career was his rendition of the aria "Vesti la Giubba" in this Leoncavallo opera

Pagliacci

The title clowns of this Leoncavallo work arrive in a parade led by a donkey, not in a tiny car

Pagliacci

This 1892 Leoncavallo work has a play within the opera

Pagliacci

This Leoncavallo opera ends with the words "La commedia e finita" -- "The comedy is ended"

Pagliacci

It's the capital city where "Carmen" composer Georges Bizet was born in 1838

Paris

Meyerbeer's opera "Les Huguenots" takes place in 1572 in Touraine & in this capital city

Paris

(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Germany) Paintings in the singers' hall at Neuschwanstein depict this knight who sought the Holy Grail & inspired an opera

Parsifal

Klingsor, a sorcerer; Amfortas, keeper of the grail; Gurnemanz, a knight

Parsifal

Tannheuser & Lohengrin are knights; this title character of another Wagner opera is a "pure fool"

Parsifal

The first & second Knights of the Grail are roles in this 1882 Wagner opera

Parsifal

The knights in this Wagner opera eat bread & drink wine consecrated by the Holy Grail

Parsifal

Anthony Davis' opera "Tania" is a surreal depiction of the 1974 abduction of this young woman

Patty Hearst

A not very realistic Ceylon is the setting for Bizet's work about "fishers" for these gems

Pearls

A 1913 opera about this queen of Ithaca is based on an episode from "The Odyssey"

Penelope

This alliterative '60s soap about a New England town shot Ryan O'Neal to stardom & came to DVD in 2009

Peyton Place

In a Puccini opera, he marries then abandons Cio-Cio-San

Pinkerton

Last name of the gossip in Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief", it's the same as a Puccini lieutenant

Pinkerton

The opera "Monna Vanna" (which isn't about Vanna White) takes place in this "Leaning Tower" city

Pisa

George Gershwin personally asked Howard University voice professor Todd Duncan to originate this title role

Porgy

"I got plenty o' nuttin'"--I'm not complaining, I'm quoting a song from this American opera

Porgy and Bess

1935 American opera whose final scene features the following

Porgy and Bess

A buzzard flies overhead & inspires the cast of this Gershwin opera to sing "The Buzzard Song"

Porgy and Bess

Robert Guilliaume appeared in a 1965 production of this Gershwin work at the Vienna Volksoper

Porgy and Bess

From dealing with Betsy, I know why this 2-word Italian term can mean a diva or a real pain

Prima donna

His new "Tosca" was the toasta Roma in 1900

Puccini

Henry Purcell wrote operas about "The Faery" one & "The Indian" one

Queen

In Flotow's opera "Martha", Lady Harriet is a lady-in-waiting to this last Stuart queen of England

Queen Anne

In "Maria Stuarda", this woman signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary Queen of Scots

Queen Elizabeth

In "Maria Stuarda", this queen orders Mary Stuart's execution after Mary calls her a "bastarda"

Queen Elizabeth I

In "Maria Stuarda", this queen signs Mary Stuart's death warrant after being called a bastard

Queen Elizabeth I

This queen is a leading character in the epic 20th century opera "Christophe Colomb"

Queen Isabella

This queen reigned in several operas, including "L'Atlantida" & "Christophe Colomb"

Queen Isabella

In a Goldmark opera, King Solomon's favorite courtier falls for this Biblical queen

Queen of Sheba

Stravinsky: "The ____'s Progress"

Rake

Concepcion's lovers hid inside clocks in this "Bolero" composer's opera "L'heure espangnole"

Ravel

"Salome", this composer's first successful opera, was banned in Boston in 1923

Richard Strauss

His "Elecktra" in 1908 may have been electric, but it was his "Salome" 3 years earlier that was scandalous

Richard Strauss

"Das Rheingold", a one-act opera, serves as the prologue to this composer's "Ring" cycle

Richard Wagner

Birgit Nilsson is best known for her heroic roles in this composer's operas

Richard Wagner

Flosshilde is a Rhinemaiden in this composer's "Das Rheingold"

Richard Wagner

He wrote both text & music for his 3-act opera "Tristan And Isolde"

Richard Wagner

In 1876 he opened an opera house in the Franconian town of Bayreuth

Richard Wagner

Klingsor's magic garden is filled with flower maidens in this German composer's 1882 opera "Parsifal"

Richard Wagner

The Seattle Opera is famous for its back-to-back productions of this composer's "Ring" cycle, in German & English

Richard Wagner

The composition of this German's "Ring" cycle spanned over 20 years

Richard Wagner

The first scene of this composer's "Das Rheingold" takes place at the bottom of the Rhine

Richard Wagner

This "Lohengrin" composer's first opera, "Die Fein", wasn't performed until 1888, five years after his death

Richard Wagner

This composer's adopted niece, Johanna, created the role of Elisabeth in his opera "Tannhauser"

Richard Wagner

Andre Gretry, "the Moliere of music", composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king

Richard the Lionhearted

Gilda, the daughter of this hunchback, falls in love with the licentious Duke of Mantua, with dire consequences

Rigoletto

He's Verdi's title hunchbacked court jester

Rigoletto

He's the hunchback jester to the Duke of Mantua in a Verdi opera

Rigoletto

The "woman is fickle" in this opera

Rigoletto

The Duke of Mantua's "La donna e mobile" is from this opera

Rigoletto

The Duke of Mantua, Gilda, Count Monterone

Rigoletto

The first of Verdi's trilogy of romantic operas, it was followed by "Il Trovatore" & "La Traviata"

Rigoletto

The title character of this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked court jester

Rigoletto

This Verdi jester is considered one of the most challenging baritone roles ever written

Rigoletto

This widower & hunchback is the court jester to the Duke of Mantua

Rigoletto

Placido Domingo starred in a 1992 TV version of "Tosca", taped in its actual settings in this capital city

Rome

19th century female star Giuditta Grisi created this role in "I Capuleti E I Montecchi"; surprise!

Romeo

The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers

Romeo & Juliet

Count Almaviva is a character in this Italian's "Barber of Seville", first performed in Rome on Feb. 20, 1816

Rossini

The murdered King Nino returns as a ghost in "Semiramide" by this "William Tell" composer

Rossini

In the last scene of "The Maid Of Orleans", a fire is lit in this city

Rouen

Yuri Shaporin's 1925 opera "The Decembrists" was set in this country 100 years earlier

Russia

In 1926 the Chicago Opera Co. presented Charles Cadman's "The Witch Of" this Massachusetts town

Salem

"Herodias' Daughter Who Was Trying to Get a Head"

Salome

1905: Herod & Jokanaan (aka John the Baptist)

Salome

A highlight of this tragic opera set in Palestine is the "Dance of the Seven Veils"

Salome

Hedwig Lachmann translated an Oscar Wilde play into German for this Richard Strauss opera

Salome

Narraboth, Herodias, John the Baptist

Salome

Some dance to remember; she dances for the head of John the Baptist after he resists her advances

Salome

This title character performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for Herod in an opera by Richard Strauss

Salome

To play Sportin' Life in "Porgy and Bess", study the performance of this Rat Packer who played him in the 1959 film

Sammy Davis, Jr.

An evil opium dealer is strangled with his own pigtail in "L'Oracolo", set in this California city's Chinatown

San Francisco

This "Ragtime" composer wrote the libretto for his own opera, "Trimonisha", and choreographed it too

Scott Joplin

A town called Roulettenburg is the setting for "The Gambler" by this "Peter and the Wolf" composer

Sergei Prokofiev

This Russian composer's "The Love for Three Oranges" is an opera within an opera about a melancholy prince

Sergei Prokofiev

"Carmen" is set in this city around 1820

Seville

Figaro is the famous "Barber of" this Spanish city

Seville

Like "Carmen", Prokofiev's opera "The Duenna" takes place in this Spanish city

Seville

This composer of the enchanting ballet "Swan Lake" wrote an opera called "The Enchantress"

Tchaikovsky

Of a baritone, a bass or a tenor, what Caruso was

Tenor

"A Hairstylist in an Andalusian City in Spain"

The Barber of Seville

Count Almaviva; Figaro; Rosina

The Barber of Seville

Crusty old Dr. Bartolo keeps Rosina under lock & key in this Spanish-set opera

The Barber of Seville

Figaro is the title character of this 1816 Rossini opera

The Barber of Seville

This Paisiello opera about a Spaniard was "snipped" out of the repertoire by Rossini's more popular version

The Barber of Seville

This Rossini opera was first performed under an Italian title meaning "Almaviva, the useless precaution"

The Barber of Seville

When I need a haircut, I think of this comic opera whose Italian title is "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"

The Barber of Seville

London's Royal Opera House traces its history back to a 1728 performance of this John Gay "Opera"

The Beggar's Opera

The bewitching opera based on this Arthur Miller play is set in Salem

The Crucible

You'll need a contralto or a mezzo to play Tituba in the 1961 opera based on this Arthur Miller play

The Crucible

Douglas Moore's 1951 opera "Giants In" this is an adaptation of the novel by Ole E. Rolvaag

The Earth

This 2008 opera is based partly on a 1986 David Cronenberg film

The Fly

A Norwegian sea captain is a character in this 1843 opera

The Flying Dutchman

Act I of this "airborne" Wagner work includes a tenor aria about a sailor returning to his sweetheart

The Flying Dutchman

Common translation of the Wagner title "Der Fliegende Hollander"

The Flying Dutchman

Daland, a captain of the high seas who meets a mysterious stranger

The Flying Dutchman

The Joad family sings up a storm (make that a dust storm) in the opera adapted from this Steinbeck novel

The Grapes of Wrath

Critics were carried away when Dwayne Croft played Nick Carraway in the 1999 opera based on this novel

The Great Gatsby

It inspired 2 operas named "Esmeralda" & one called "Quasimodo"

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco went "Wilde" & turned this Oscar Wilde play into a 1962 opera

The Importance of Being Earnest

This 1819 Rossini opera is based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott

The Lady of the Lake

Rossini's "William Tell" Overture was used as the theme for this classic TV western

The Lone Ranger

"One Enchanted Recorder"

The Magic Flute

Mozart's Queen of the Night, a sorceress

The Magic Flute

Scholars think that a panpipe found by Captain Cook in what is now Vanuatu inspired this 18th century opera

The Magic Flute

This 1791 work is considered the greatest example in music history of the Zauberoper, or "magic opera"

The Magic Flute

This Mozart opera is set in part in the temple of Isis in Egypt

The Magic Flute

Count Almaviva attempts to thwart this opera's title marriage

The Marriage of Figaro

Fun abounds as a valet prepares for his own wedding in this 1786 Mozart opera

The Marriage of Figaro

Mozart opera in which the count tries to thwart & postpone his valet's wedding

The Marriage of Figaro

Susanna the maid is the bride in this Mozart opera

The Marriage of Figaro

"Il Mercante Di Venezia"

The Merchant of Venice

"Le Marchand de Venise" is a 1935 opera based on this play

The Merchant of Venice

It's the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn's opera "Le Marchand de Venise"

The Merchant of Venice

Shifting the title's focus: "Jessika"

The Merchant of Venice

Verdi's "Falstaff" is based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays & this Shakespeare comedy

The Merry Wives of Windsor

What a farce: "Sir John in Love" & several called "Falstaff"

The Merry Wives of Windsor

His son, Nanki-Poo, poses as a minstrel & later weds Yum-Yum

The Mikado

Yum-Yum, who is due to marry Ko-Ko, falls in love with the minstrel Nanki-Poo in this operetta

The Mikado

This nation opened its first opera house on the banks of the Amstel River in 1986

The Netherlands/Holland

"The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountain" is an opera based on this John Bunyan work

The Pilgrim's Progress

Tom Rakewell is lured into a life of vice in this 1951 opera based on a series of engravings by William Hogarth

The Rake's Progress

It was truly a red-letter day when an opera based on this Hawthorne novel premiered in Boston in 1896

The Scarlet Letter

"La Bisbetica Dominata" was based on this Shakespeare play

The Taming of the Shrew

"Der Sturm"

The Tempest

It's full of magic: "Stormen" & several called "Der Sturm"

The Tempest

You'll need some long-winded singers to star in "Stormen", a Swedish opera based on this play

The Tempest

A governess fears that her charges are communicating with ghosts in an opera based on this Henry James novella

The Turn of the Screw

Tom Selleck was Jed Andrews on this Genoa City-set CBS soap where Victor & Nikki found romance

The Young and the Restless

Dallapiccola's opera "Ulisse" concerns Ulysses' return to Ithaca after this war

Trojan War

Ilia, the daughter of King Priam, is a captive princess in "Idomeneo", set just after this war

Trojan War

Busoni's opera about this cruel Chinese princess isn't nearly as famous as Puccini's

Turandot

Puccini's last opera, it's set in Peking

Turandot

Smetana's "Viola", with just 365 bars of music, is based on this play

Twelfth Night

A story by Edgar Allan Poe inspired Philip Glass' opera "The Fall of the House of" this

Usher

In an opera based on a Polidori story, Lord Ruthven is really one of these bloodsuckers

Vampire

This Portuguese explorer falls in love with an African captive in Meyerbeer's opera, "L'Africaine"

Vasco da Gama

This city on the Adriatic is the setting for "La Gioconda"

Venice

Appropriately, this Roman goddess oversees the love life of her grandson in Mozart's opera "Ascanio in Alba"

Venus

"Rigoletto" prompted Rossini to say that at last he recognized this compser's genius

Verdi

In 1872 this composer conducted his "Aida" at La Scala in Milan

Verdi

The ghosts of Louis XVI & his court return to one of their favorite haunts in "The Ghosts of" this French palace

Versailles

"Esmeralda", an 1840s opera, is based on a work by this "Miserable" author

Victor Hugo

The premiere of this Quasimodo creator's play "Hernani" caused a riot; Verdi based an opera on it anyway

Victor Hugo

Consumed with guilt over her affair with Boris, the heroine of "Katya Kabanova" drowns herself in this Russian river

Volga

Act I of this composer's "Don Giovanni" features the famous "Champagne Aria"

W.A. Mozart

Bellini's 1831 opera "Norma" had its world premiere at this Milan opera house

La Scala

In Handel's opera "Rinaldo", a sorceress rides in a chariot drawn by these fire-breathing monsters

dragons

Poignant, given Pagliaccio's profession, the line "Ridi Pagliaccio" means do this, Pagliaccio

laugh

Naval rank of Pinkerton in "Madame Butterfly"

lieutenant

In the 1830s Verdi studied with Vincenzo Lavigna, formerly maestro al cembalo at this Milan opera house

La Scala

This Milan opera house has a secondary theater for chamber music

La Scala

This Milan opera house was built by Maria Theresa of Austria to replace the Royal Ducal Theatre

La Scala

The name of this Verdi opera means "The Fallen Woman"

La Traviata

When 1st produced, this Verdi opera known as "the strayed one" was a failure, due in part to contemporary costumes

La Traviata

Marcello, a painter; Mimi, a flower girl; Rodolfo, a poet

La boheme

Around the same time, Leoncavallo & this man both wrote operas based on the novel "Scenes de la vie de boheme"

(Giacomo) Puccini

He began writing "Die Meistersinger" in 1845 as a companion piece to "Tannhauser", but didn't finish it until 1867

(Richard) Wagner

He coined the term "gesamtkunst, werk" to describe a "total art work" in which all the art forms combine to the same end

(Richard) Wagner

Like many of his works, this composer's "Tannhauser" is based on Germanic legends

(Richard) Wagner

Of 14, 24 or 34, Mozart's age when he commissioned his first opera, "Mitridate Re di Ponto", premiered in 1770

14

Even Ebenezer would enjoy "Mr. Scrooge", an opera inspired by this famous story

A Christmas Carol

An enchanting work: "The Faery Queen"

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Of adapting this Southern play, Andre Previn said it's "always been an opera. It's just that the music was missing"

A Streetcar Named Desire

A high school graduation party leads to romance in "The Tender Land" by this "Appalachian Spring" composer

Aaron Copland

Much of this Puccini opera takes place in a cafe in Paris' Latin Quarter

La boheme

Musetta has her very own waltz in Act II of this Puccini opera

La boheme

Act I of this opera ends with a love duet between Roddolfo & Mimi

La bohème

Marcello fetches a doctor, but Mimi still dies, leaving Rodolfo heartbroken at the end of this opera

La bohème

Puccini: "Oh Be Lame"

La bohème

Sung by Rodolfo to Mimi, "Che Gelida Manina", "Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen", is a beloved aria in this opera

La bohème

The title of this Puccini opera deals with a painter (Marcello), a poet (Rodolfo) & a philosopher (Colline)

La bohème

Title shared by the Puccini and Leoncavallo operas about Mimi, a poor seamstress

La bohème

In this Verdi opera Violetta Valery is a fallen woman who has a touch of consumption

La traviata

Verdi wrote an aria called "La Luce Langue"--The Light Fails--for this bloothirsty villainess

Lady Macbeth

4 sisters cavort in the March family attic in Act I of the opera based on this 1868 novel

Little Women

In a Richard Wagner opera, this knight in shining armor arrives on a boat drawn by a swan

Lohengrin

In a Wagner opera, this title knight tells Elsa he'll marry her so long as she never asks his identity

Lohengrin

The swan that pulls this title character's boat is actually Elsa's enchanted brother, Gottfried

Lohengrin

This lord never finished his poem "Don Juan", but Zdenìk Fibich based an opera on it anyway

Lord Byron

Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras & this Italian called; they're doing a "Four Tenors" tour, & you're number four!!!!

Luciano Pavarotti

This hefty ebullient tenor once taught elementary school in Modena, Italy, his birthplace

Luciano Pavarotti

This hefty superstar tenor from Modena, Italy is often compared to Caruso

Luciano Pavarotti

Donizetti's opera about this female Borgia is based on a play by Victor Hugo

Lucrezia Borgia

Alban Berg's 1937 opera is a real doozy, or a real this, the double-talk name of its title character

Lulu

(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE): This 1847 opera by an Italian composer features singing witches

Macbeth

Swiss composer Ernest Bloch's only completed opera is based on this play; the role of Banquo is sung by a tenor

Macbeth

"How You Might Address an Upper-Class Married Creature of the Order Lepidoptera"

Madame Butterfly

1904: Suzuki, a geisha's servant

Madame Butterfly

Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet

Othello

This "Billy The Kid" composer wrote 2 operas: "The Second Hurricane" & "The Tender Land"

Aaron Copland

Traditionally, a woman plays this mythological "heel" in Handel's opera "Deidamia"

Achilles

Virgil Thomson's 1933 opera "Four Saints In Three" of these actually has 4 of them

Acts

Henry Purcell's 17th century opera about Dido & this Virgil hero may be his masterpiece

Aeneas

"Aida "

Africa

This king & his wife Clytemnestra appear in Gluck's opera "Iphigeneia in Aulis"

Agamemnon

1871: Ramfis, the high priest of Isis

Aida

Act II, Scene 2 of this opera begins with the song "Gloria All' Egitto e Ad Iside", or "Glory to Egypt and to Isis"

Aida

Act III of this Verdi opera unfolds near a temple of Isis

Aida

Amneris, Daughter of Pharaoh, has an Ethiopian slave girl-- her

Aida

Egyptologist Auguste Mariette claimed his scenario was the basis for the libretto of this 1871 opera

Aida

Ramfis is the high priest of Egypt in this Verdi opera

Aida

She's a slave to Amneris, an Egyptian princess

Aida

The Franco-Prussian war delayed this Verdi opera's premiere: scenery couldn't leave besieged Paris for Cairo

Aida

The king of Egypt; Radames, a soldier; Ramfis, the high priest

Aida

This Ethiopian princess was captured by the Egyptians & made a slave to Princess Amneris

Aida

This Verdi opera was first performed on Dec. 24, 1871, in Cairo

Aida

This Verdi title character is an Ethiopian slave to Pharaoh's daughter

Aida

This title character is actually the daughter of King Amonasro of Ethiopia

Aida

This title slave & Pharaoh's daughter Amneris are both in love with Radames

Aida

"Il Re Pastore" dramatizes a legend about this conqueror known in the opera as Alessandro

Alexander the Great

This French novelist, a pere without peer, penned the libretto for Monpou's "Le Piquillo"

Alexandre Dumas

Princess Ninetta is briefly transformed into a rat in "The Love for Three" of these citrus fruits

Oranges

Euridice is a soprano role in Monteverdi's "The Fable Of" this man who went to hell & back for her

Orpheus

The earliest opera that survives, Peri's 1600 "Euridice" tells of Euridice & this husband

Orpheus

Act IV of this opera begins with Desdemona's "Willow Song"

Otello

The title character of this 1816 opera is in service with the Venetian army

Otello

Rossini's opera about this tragic character is subtitled "Il Moro Di Venezia

Othello

Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery plus 4 other last names is on this soap

All My Children

He was the crippled 12-year-old title character in the first opera written for television

Amahl

In 1989 composer Gian Carlo Menotti directed his own opera about this boy "and the Night Visitors"

Amahl

Menotti: "______ and the Night Visitors"

Amahl

One of the most popular Christmas operas is Menotti's classic about this boy "and the Night Visitors"

Amahl

The title characters of this opera are a poor boy, King Kaspar, King Melchior & King Balthazar

Amahl and the Night Visitors

This 20th century opera was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's painting "The Adoration of the Magi"

Amahl and the Night Visitors

This Gian Carlo Menotti TV opera features a crippled boy, his mother & 3 kings: Kaspar, Melchior & Balthazar

Amahl and the Night Visitors

This Menotti opera debuted on the New York stage on April 9, 1952, 4 months after it was televised

Amahl and the Night Visitors

This "Phantom" & "Cats" composer's mini-opera "Tell Me on a Sunday" premiered on the BBC in 1980

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Jean Cocteau wrote the libretto for an opera about this Sophoclean heroine, Ismene's sister

Antigone

The heroine of this Czech composer's 1901 opera "Rusalka" is a water nymph

Antonin Dvorak

This composer of the "New World Symphony" wrote the operas "The Cunning Peasant" & "The Pigheaded Peasants"

Antonin Dvorak

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera about Mozart's rivalry with this man, who allegedly poisoned him

Antonio Salieri

An arietta is a short, simple one of these operatic songs

Aria

Verdi fans always want "moor" of this Shakespearean hero

Othello

In "The Ring of the Nibelung", Siegfried braved a ring of fire to save this goddess

Brunhilde

In Wagner's "Die Walkure", she was Wotan's favorite of the Valkyrie warriors

Brunhilde

In Wagner's "Gotterdammerung", she dies by riding her horse onto Siegfried's funeral pyre

Brunhilde

The poetry of this English lord inspired a number of operas, including "Lara" & "The Bride of Abydos"

Byron

Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city

Cairo

Lukas Foss' opera "The Jumping Frog of" this county is based on a story by Mark Twain

Calaveras County

1875: Escamillo, a matador

Carmen

Celestine Galli-Marie was the 1st to play this seductress from Seville in Bizet's most famous opera

Carmen

Characters in this Bizet opera include a toreador, a gypsy girl & cigarette factory girls

Carmen

Don Jose is a soldier in love with this Bizet bombshell

Carmen

Don Jose is bewitched by this title gypsy girl

Carmen

Escamillo, a bullfighter; Mercedes, a gypsy girl; Don Jose, a soldier

Carmen

In Bizet's opera, this passionate gypsy works in a cigarette factory, so you could call her a "fumme fatale"

Carmen

Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera

Carmen

This title temptress of an 1875 opera works in a cigarette factory

Carmen

When this Gypsy girl spurns Don Jose's affection, he kills her with a dagger

Carmen

When this opera opens, a cigarette girl tells soldiers she is looking for a corporal named Jose

Carmen

On Nov. 23, 1903 this tenor made his U.S. debut playing the Duke in "Rigoletto" at the Metropolitan Opera

Caruso

This Neapolitan tenor made his last public appearance on Christmas Eve, 1920 in "La Juive"

Caruso

Your performance as Loris in "Fedora" will make everyone forget this great tenor who originated the role in 1898

Caruso

Australian composer Arthur Benjamin's 1953 opera "A Tale of Two Cities" is based on a novel by this author

Charles Dickens

Zandonai's opera "Il Grillo del Focolare" is adapted from this author's "The Cricket on the Hearth"

Charles Dickens

Sir William Walton & Paul Dehn turned this 19th century Russian's play "The Bear" into a one-act opera

Chekhov

In the sex-change opera "The Breasts of Tiresias", the husband bears 40,000 of these in a single day

Children

Both Stravinsky's "The Nightingale" & Puccini's "Turandot" are set in this country

China

Choreographer Frederick Ashton played one of the ugly stepsisters when this ballet debuted in 1948

Cinderella

In an opera based on a fairy tale, this title girl gives the prince one of a pair of bracelets before leaving the ball

Cinderella

There's no de"Nile": Masse, Massenet & Mattheson all wrote operas about her

Cleopatra

Nutty about "The Nutcracker"? You've probably seen it during this month (that's the month it was first performed, too)

December

Gaza is the setting for a Biblical opera about Samson and this hussy

Delilah

In a Saint-Saens opera, Samson succumbs to the charms of this Philistine woman & ends up dead

Delilah

There's a hair-raising--oops!--hair-cutting scene in Saint-Saens' opera about Samson & her

Delilah

In various versions of "Othello", she's smothered, strangled or stabbed to death

Desdemona

This Johann Strauss opera has appeared in several English versions, including "Night Birds" & "Rosalinda"

Die Fledermaus

This Johann Strauss operetta has appeared in an English version titled "Night Birds"

Die Fledermaus

Donna Elvira is one of the women seduced by the title character of this Mozart opera

Don Giovanni

The title libertine of this 1787 Mozart opera seduces women in 17th century Seville

Don Giovanni

This Mozart opera about an insatiable lover is also known as "The Reprobate Punished"

Don Giovanni

This Mozart opera opens with the title character on the prowl for Donna Anna

Don Giovanni

In an 1869 Marius Petipa ballet he puts a metal basin on as a helmet & goes seeking adventure

Don Quixote

This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata

Edvard Grieg

Philip Glass: "________ on the Beach"

Einstein

Except for a concert version, Massenet's opera of this 11th c. Castilian hero wasn't staged from 1902 to 1999

El Cid

In a Rossini opera, this queen is incensed to find out the Earl of Leicester is secretly married

Elizabeth I

"J'Accuse" this "Nana" novelist of writing the libretto for Bruneau's opera "Messidor"

Emile Zola

Not to "J'Accuse" Alfred Bruneau, but he got opera stories like "Le Reve" from this author friend

Emile Zola

In this German composer's "The Royal Children", a goose-girl gets poisoned by -- you guessed it! -- a witch!

Engelbert Humperdinck

In 1999 Placido Domingo opened the Met for a record 18th time, breaking this man's record of 17

Enrico Caruso

This great Italian tenor made his official debut in 1894, in Naples, his hometown

Enrico Caruso

In an opera based on a Pushkin poem, Lensky challenges this title character to a duel--big mistake

Eugene Onegin

This Tchaikovsky opera was based on Pushkin's 1833 "Novel in Verse"

Eugene Onegin

"La Boheme"

Europe

In Offenbach's "Orphee aux Enfers", Orpheus goes to Hades to retrieve this woman, his cheatin' wife

Eurydice

"Merry Wives" make mischief in the Verdi opera named for this fat Shakespearean funster

Falstaff

In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket

Falstaff

Some merry wives dress up like fairies in Verdi's 1893 opera named for this Shakespearean character

Falstaff

Verdi's first comic opera was a flop; it was 50 years before he wrote his second, about this Shakespeare character

Falstaff

Verdi's last opera, this comic masterpiece is based in part on Shakespeare's "King Henry IV"

Falstaff

"Mefistofele" is based on this 1808 literary work

Faust

Beniamino Gigli was well known for singing the role of this scholar in "Mefistofele"

Faust

Berlioz's opera about "The Damnation Of" this man features the "Dance of the Sylphs"

Faust

For the gift of youth, this philosopher & alchemist pledges his soul to Mephistopheles

Faust

In Germany this Gounod opera based on a play by Goethe is called "Margarethe", for its heroine

Faust

In Germany, this opera is sometimes called "Margarethe" to separate it from the Goethe drama

Faust

The role of Scrooge is sung by a baritone in this Thea Musgrave opera

"A Christmas Carol"

("Triumph March")

"Aida"

An Ethiopian slave girl is torn between love & patriotism in the Egypt of the Pharaohs in this Verdi opera

"Aida"

In this Verdi opera, the king of Ethiopia is a baritone role while the king of Egypt is a bass

"Aida"

Its 1871 premiere in Cairo was delayed due to the Franco-Prussian War

"Aida"

There's no denial: Act III of this Verdi opera is sometimes called "The Nile Scene"

"Aida"

The 1981 opera based on this Tolstoy novel begins, & ends, at a Moscow railway station

"Anna Karenina"

("Habanera")

"Carmen"

Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory

"Carmen"

Familiar songs in this opera include Don Jose's "Flower Song" & Escamillo's "Toreador Song"

"Carmen"

In Act II of this Bizet opera, Escamillo sings the "Toreador's Song"

"Carmen"

In a jealous rage, a soldier murders the gypsy with whom he's had a passionate affair in this Bizet opera

"Carmen"

The prince looks for a matching bracelet, not a glass slipper, in "La Cenerentola", based on this fairy tale

"Cinderella"

"Master Peter's Puppet Show" -- a puppet opera (?!) -- is based on a passage from this Cervantes work

"Don Quixote"

Jules Massenet composed an opera based on this famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes

"Don Quixote"

In 1999 Dawn Upshaw was Daisy Buchanan in John Harbison's operatic version of this novel

"The Great Gatsby"

Prokofiev spent over 10 years turning this Tolstoy epic into an opera

"War And Peace"

This Norwegian completed only 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason", his sole attempt at opera

(Edvard) Grieg

"Uno Sguardo Dal Ponte" is an Italian Opera version of this U.S. playwright's "A View from the Bridge"

Arthur Miller

American composer Robert Ward based a 1961 opera on this author's famous play "The Crucible"

Arthur Miller

"Turandot"

Asia

In a Verdi opera, Odabella saves this famous Hun from being poisoned so she can kill him herself

Attila

In an 1846 opera, this Hun gets stabbed to death by his honey, Odabella

Attila

Verdi's Nabucco, who's also known by a longer form of his name, is the king of this ancient place

Babylon

Rossini: "The ____ of Seville"

Barber

Though a tenor now, Placido Domingo began singing in this vocal range below tenor

Baritone

We've got basses, we've got tenors, but we can't find one of these like the guy on the CD [audio clip]

Baritone

In 1961, as Venus in "Tannhauser", Grace Bumbry became the first black diva to sing at this Wagner festival

Bayreuth

Wagner didn't want "Parsifal" performed outside of this city that now holds Wagner festivals

Bayreuth

Originally, this Czech composer's opera "The Bartered Bride" contained some spoken dialogue

Bedrich Smetana

The heroine of this Czech composer's 1881 opera "Libuse" is the queen of Bohemia

Bedrich Smetana

This Hungarian composer wrote only one opera, the dramatic 1-act "Duke Bluebeard's Castle"

Bela Bartok

Pietro Mascagni wrote his 1935 opera "Nerone" to glorify this dictator

Benito Mussolini

"The Burning Fiery Furnace" is a Biblical opera by this composer of "Billy Budd"

Benjamin Britten

English composer whose 1947 opera "Albert Herring" is about a young man, not a young fish

Benjamin Britten

Julie Taymor directed the 2006 opera "Grendel", which retold this classic tale from the monster's point of view

Beowulf

He wrote the libretto for Dessau's "The Trial of Lucullus" & Weill's "The Threepenny Opera"

Bertolt Brecht

Perhaps the most "indomitable" of Benjamin Britten's opera, this 1951 work has an all-male cast

Billy Budd

Red Whiskers & Squeak serve aboard ship with this title character, Herman Melville's sailorboy

Billy Budd

The Benjamin Britten opera based on this Herman Melville work climaxes with a hanging

Billy Budd

Darn! Bullwinkle isn't in this opera we're studying today; it's not "Boris Badenov", it's this 1874 Mussorgsky opera

Boris Godunov

We assume Samuel Barber composed his mini-opera about "A Hand of" this game according to Hoyle

Bridge

Fuhgeddaboudit! The Opera Co. of this NYC borough performs in unusual venues, like people's living rooms

Brooklyn

First performed on Helsinki Radio in 1958, Merikanto's "Juha" is one of this country's finest operas

Finland

Don Prudenzio is a doctor in "Il viaggio a Reims", written for the coronation of Charles X of this country

France

A "monster" opera based on this Mary Shelley novel premiered in 1990

Frankenstein

He died before "The Trial" was published, so he never got to see the opera version either

Franz Kafka

This Austrian composer didn't complete his operas "Adrast" & "Sakuntala"; he left a symphony "unfinished", too

Franz Schubert

The ballet "Les Sylphides" is danced to music by this Polish-French composer

Frederic Chopin

The libretto for "William Tell" was in this language, the native tongue of neither the composer, Rossini, nor the subject

French

His ever-popular novel "The Brothers Karamazov" inspired an opera by Otakar Jeremias

Fyodor Dostoevsky

After his 1711 opera "Rinaldo" made his name, he immediately moved from Hanover to England

G.F. Handel

He presented his operas "Alcina", "Ariodante" & "Atalanta" at the Covent Garden Theater, as well as his "Messiah"

G.F. Handel

This "Messiah" composer's 1735 opera "Alcina" was based on the epic poem "Orlando Furioso"

G.F. Handel

John Reilly played Sean Donely, the police commissioner of Port Charles with a shady past, on this ABC show

General Hospital

"The Canterbury Pilgrims", an 1884 opera, is based on a work by him

Geoffrey Chaucer

This oratorio composer's 1735 opera "Ariodante" is based on "Orlando Furioso"

George Frideric Handel

He composed a 1-act jazz opera called "Blue Monday" 13 years before "Porgy & Bess"

George Gershwin

"Djamileh" is a comic opera by this composer of "Carmen"

Georges Bizet

He was only 24 when he composed "The Pearl Fishers", which was rediscovered after the success of his "Carmen"

Georges Bizet

Sadly, most of this "Carmen" composer's opera "Clarissa Harlowe" is lost

Georges Bizet

This composer's reputation rests on his first & last full-length operas, "The Pearl Fishers" & "Carmen"

Georges Bizet

Joe is a gambler in his early opera "Blue Monday"; Sportin' Life is a gambler in his later "Porgy and Bess"

Gershwin

Based on the play "The Colleen Bawn", "The Lily of Killarney" takes place in this country

Ireland

She marries King Mark, but Tristan is her consuming passion

Isolde

The discovery of Tristan's affair with this woman, his uncle's wife, leads to the lovers' deaths

Isolde

Bizet & Rimsky-Korsakov both wrote fine operas about this dreadful czar

Ivan the Terrible

Oops! The daughter of this nasty mean czar is killed by accident in "The Maid of Pskov"

Ivan the Terrible

"Lulu" has a lulu of an ending: the heroine is killed by this notorious London murderer

Jack the Ripper

In Alban Berg's unfinished opera "Lulu", Lulu is slain by this notorious London killer

Jack the Ripper

At the end of Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena", this woman is Henry VIII's new queen

Jane Seymour

Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" ends with the marriage of Henry VIII (aka Enrico) to this woman

Jane Seymour

Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" takes place in the early 1900s in this country

Japan

This Finnish composer's only opera, "The Maiden In The Tower", is rarely performed

Jean Sibelius

In "The Maid of Orleans", this saint has a lot at stake; by the opera's end, she's tied to a stake

Joan of Arc

This famous martyr is the heroine of many operas, including "The Maid of Orleans"

Joan of Arc

"Die Harmonie der Welt" explores the life of this astronomer & his musical theories of planetary motion

Johannes Kepler

The childrens' opera "The Fisherman and His Wife" has a libretto by this author: "Rabbit, Run" to see it

John Updike

By the end of "Salome" this character has lost his head

John the Baptist

Cleopatra (soprano) & Curio (bass) appear in Handel's opera about this man (contralto) in Egypt

Julius Caesar

"Cordelia"

KIng Lear

Not surprisingly, Merlin & Mordred appear in Chausson's opera about this legendary king

King Arthur

Teens go ape over the opera in which this gigantic movie ape falls for Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

King Kong

In 1971 this part-Maori diva had her first Covent Garden triumph in "The Marriage of Figaro"

Kiri Te Kanawa

This New Zealand soprano appeared as Donna Elvira in Joseph Losey's film of "Don Giovanni"

Kiri Te Kanawa

He wrote the music for "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"; Brecht wrote the libretto

Kurt Weill

In 1928 he & Bertolt Brecht "jazzed" up "The Beggar's Opera" to create "The Threepenny Opera"

Kurt Weill

Rodolfo burns his poems to keep the stove going in act I of this Puccini work

La Boheme

"Boris Godunov" is the only opera completed by this composer

Modest Mussorgsky

This heroine of a 1915 Schillings opera shares her name with a lady painted by Leonardo

Mona Lisa

This Aztec is the title character in operas by Karl Heinrich Braun & Roger Sessions

Montezuma

You have to be a baritone to play Cortez in Roger Sessions' opera about this emperor of the Aztecs

Montezuma

Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man & his brother Aaron

Moses

In this composer's "Don Giovanni", the title character seduces women, kills a man & is dragged down to Hell

Mozart

When this Austrian's "La Finta Giardiniera" premiered in 1775, he was almost 19--getting old for a prodigy

Mozart

"Beaucoup de Bruit Pour Rien"

Much Ado About Nothing

Love that sparring: "Beatrice et Benedict"

Much Ado About Nothing

"Feuersnot" is set in this German city that the Germans call Munchen

Munich

Pizzetti's opera "Assassinio Nella Cattedrale" is based on this T.S. Eliot play

Murder in the Cathedral

In an opera based on history, the pharaoh Akhenaten gives up polygamy for this beautiful queen

Nefertiti

You need a mezzo to play this beautiful queen in Phillip Glass's opera "Akhenaton"

Nefertiti

It's the native country of opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who sang at Princess Diana's wedding

New Zealand

Chou En-lai & Chiang Ch'ing are characters in an opera about this man "in China"

Nixon

"The Girl of the Golden West"

North America

Carl Maria von Weber's 1826 opera about this king of the fairies was subtitled "or, the Elf King's Oath"

Oberon

Carlisle Floyd's opera based on this Steinbeck work has rodentia & homo sapiens in its title

Of Mice And Men

King Solomon is a character in "La Reine de Saba", an opera about the queen of this place

Sheba

This Finn's only opera, "The Maiden in the Tower", had a libretto in Swedish

Sibelius

This hero of "Gotterdammerung" is the son of incestous twins

Siegfried

This title Wagner hero blows a mighty horn call & then kills Fafner, who's in the shape of a dragon

Siegfried

Thea Musgrave's 1995 opera about this South American liberator premiered in Virginia, not Venezuela

Simon Bolivar

This composer of "The Mikado" wrote only 1 grand opera, "Ivanhoe"

Sir Arthur Sullivan

Operas based on this author's works include "Il Talismano", "Il Templario" & "La Prigione d'Edimburgo"

Sir Walter Scott

Scotsman whose novel, "The Bride of Lammermoor" inspired "Lucia di Lammermoor"

Sir Walter Scott

The works of this novelist & poet inspired "Lucia di Lammermoor", "La Donna del Lago" & "La Jolie Fille de Perth"

Sir Walter Scott

Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula" is so named because Amina, its heroine, has this nocturnal habit

Sleepwalking

Karl Goldmark's opera "The Queen Of Sheba" opens in the palace of this Biblical king

Solomon

"Florencia en el Amazonas"

South America

In the 1983 opera named for him, this saint of Assisi preaches a sermon to the birds

St. Francis of Assisi

This Swede's 1907 play "The Ghost Sonata" inspired a 1984 chamber opera by Aribert Reimann

Strindberg

"The Mother Of Us All", by Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein, is about this American feminist

Susan B. Anthony

Odile & Prince Sigfried are the deux-o who dance the Black Swan pas de deux in this ballet

Swan Lake

"Un Ballo En Maschera" dramatizes the assassination of this country's King Gustavus III at a masked ball

Sweden

A card-playing countess ends up as a ghost in this "Nutcracker" composer's opera "The Queen of Spades"

Tchaikovsky

Igor Stravinsky's father, Fyodor, sang in the opera "Maid of Orleans" by this "Choleric" composer

Tchaikovsky

Tchekalinsky, Tomsky & Prince Yeletsky are roles in "The Queen of Spades" by this composeretsky

Tchaikovsky

This composer of "The Nutcracker" said, "The music of a ballet is not invariably bad"

Tchaikovsky

"The Queen of Cornwall" is based on a play by this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author

Thomas Hardy

"The Queen of Cornwall", from a play by this author, premiered "Far from the Madding Crowd", in Glastonbury

Thomas Hardy

How convenient--the title character of this Puccini opera is an opera singer

Tosca

The role Placido Domingo has played more than any other is Cavaradossi in this Puccini opera

Tosca

This Puccini title heroine's first name is Floria

Tosca

This title character is sent to fetch Isolde, his uncle King Mark's intended bride

Tristan

The opera based on this Maurice Sendak book features a wild thing with beard & a wild thing with horns

Where The Wild Things Are

Act 1 of this Rossini opera takes place on the shores of Lake Lucerne

William Tell

In a Rossini opera this Swiss patriot is forced to shoot an apple placed on his son Jemmy's head

William Tell

Jemmy, a Swiss boy used as a target stand

William Tell

Part of this Rossini opera takes place on the shores of Lake Lucerne

William Tell

Rudolph is the commander of Gessler's archers in this opera

William Tell

The title character of this opera addresses his son in the aria "Sois immobile" ("hold yourself still")

William Tell

The score for "The Bread and Roses Opera" by Steve Friedman was lifted from this composer's "Don Giovanni"

Wolfgang A. Mozart

The famous aria known as "Handel's Largo" is sung in "Serse", a 1738 opera about this great ruler

Xerxes

In "Siegfried" Fafner the giant is turned into one of these mythical beasts before Siegfried slays him

a dragon

In "Cavalleria Rusticana", an ear gets bitten when Alfio challenges Turiddu to their fateful one of these

a duel

In a Menotti opera Madame Flora is a fake one of these psychics; Patricia Arquette plays a title one on TV

a medium

In the opera "Broken Strings", a soprano plays a fish & a tenor plays one of these proud fan-tailed birds

a peacock

In "Il Trovatore" Leonora escapes the clutches of a count by drinking poison from this piece of jewelry

a ring

In a Richard Strauss opera, the princess sends one of these to her cavalier--hence the title

a rose

Warning: If you play the role of Jemmy in the opera "William Tell", you'll get one of these shot off your head

an apple

"Ha! Welch' ein Augenblick" is a famous example of the "vengeance" type of this operatic solo

aria

The doctor in Berg's "Wozzeck" is sung by this lowest male voice

bass

The title role in "Boris Godunov" is for a singer in this vocal range

bass

A toast to Mozart's "Don Giovanni", which features an aria nicknamed for this bubbly beverage

champagne

Mimi in "La boheme" suffers & dies from this disease

consumption


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