Opera Trivia Quiz II

 

I. The Name Game

1. What two major operas have characters named Ferrando (not Fernando) in them?

2. What false name does Leonora use?

3. What false name does Count Almaviva use?

4. What false name does the Duke of Mantua use?

 

II. Location, location, location

5. Where is the last act of Manon Lescaut set?

6. What are the two alternate settings of Un Ballo in Maschera?

7. In what Tuscan town are the valuable mills that Buoso Donati's relatives covet?

8. What city does Scarpia put down on the safe-conduct for Tosca and Cavaradossi?

 

III. Disasters

9. What opera ends in an avalanche?

10. In what opera does the hero set fire to a ship?

11. What opera ends in a flood AND a fire?

 

IV. Godliness

12. In what opera does the heroine change her religion and get disowned by her family?

13. What religion does Norma practice?

14. Why can't Elvira marry Arturo?

15. Why is Angelica in a convent?

 

V. Who's That?

16. Who is that woman, and what on earth is she doing up there?

Answers here

Quiz I

Quiz III

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