Opera Essentials

What this quiz asks

• What is the written text of an opera, containing all its words, called?
• The famous opera house Teatro alla Scala is in which Italian city?
• What is the highest standard female voice type in opera?
• Puccini's Madama Butterfly is set in which Japanese city?
• Luciano Pavarotti was a baritone.
• Which nickname was given to the soprano Maria Callas?
• The overture of which Rossini opera ends with a galloping finale later used as The Lone Ranger theme?
• Select ALL of these singers who performed as one of The Three Tenors alongside Luciano Pavarotti.
• Mozart's opera The Magic Flute is sung in German.
• Puccini's last opera, set in this country's imperial capital, was left unfinished at his death. Which opera is it?
• Order these male voice types from the highest to the lowest.
• Did Giuseppe Verdi write an opera based on Shakespeare's Othello?
• Mozart's Don Giovanni had its world premiere in 1787 in which city?
• Which early Verdi opera, set in ancient Babylon, made his name after its 1842 premiere at La Scala?
• Richard Wagner built his own festival theatre in which Bavarian town?
• What is the name of Lisbon's national opera house, opened in 1793?
• In what year did the Metropolitan Opera give its very first performance in New York?
• Select ALL of these operas that were composed by Richard Wagner.
• Bizet's Carmen had its world premiere in 1875 at which Paris theatre?
• The soprano Joan Sutherland, nicknamed La Stupenda, came from which country?