You can answer the questions in any order. This script will give you a hint if you are wrong.
Spontini Meyerbeer Cherubini. F. Couperin
2. All of the following are characteristics of French grand opera except:
use of a historical subject extensive use of the chorus emphasis on ballet segments eventual tragic ending
3. Opéra bouffe satirized France in the mid-19th century. Its founder and the composer of Orpheus in the Underworld is:
Jacques Offenbach Arthur Sullivan Johann Strauss the Younger Sigmund Romberg
4. All of the following are examples of French lyric operas except:
Gounod's Faust Thomas's Mignon Campra's L'Europe galante Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila
5. Bizet's Carmen is classified as an opera comique because:
it contains spoken dialogue. it contains humorous scenes in the cigarette factory. its characters come from the lower classes. none of the above
6. Italian opera, unlike German and French opera, has historically been dominated by melody.
True False
7. Opera buffa is characterized by all of the following except:
use of characters from the commedia dell' arte important bass roles important ensemble finales no spoken dialogue
8. All of the following are opera buffe by Rossini except:
Semiramide La Cenerentola La gazza ladra Il barbiere di Siviglia
9. Rossini is particularly famous for all of the following except:
the Rossini crescendo buffo arias ensemble finales almost constant use of 3/4 meter
10. An Italian composer who is most famous for an opera set in Scotland is:
Rossini Bellini Donizetti Verdi
11. An Italian composer who is most famous for an opera set in Roman Britain is:
12. All of the following Verdi operas are from his early nationalist period except:
Aïda Nabucco Macbeth I Lombardi
13. Verdi's middle period opera deal with more personal stories than his earlier works. He is especially concerned with the relationship between parent and child. All of the following treat that issue except:
La Traviata Rigoletto Il Trovatore Otello
14. Verdi's Otello differs from his earlier operas in the following ways:
It is his first use of a story by Shakespeare. Its music is continuous, not broken up into distinct sections. It uses recurring musical motives. It contains a prayer scene.
15. Verdi's Falstaff is the supreme example of opera buffa.:
16. The ancestor of the German Romantic opera was the liturgical drama:
17. German Romantic opera was influenced by all of the following except:
nationalism Romantic elements in French opera the English masque the Singspiel
18. The most famous of early German Romantic operas was:
Weber's Der Freischütz Wagner's The Flying Dutchman Meyerbeer's La Juive Weber's Oberon
19. All of the following are characteristic of German Romanticism except:
fascination with the supernatural interest in stories from the distant past adherence to classical symmetry in composition emphasis on the power of nature
20. A Wagner opera that deals with a ghost searching the world for salvation is:
Lohengrin The Flying Dutchman Seigfried Rienzi
21. Wagner admired all of the following composers except:
Mozart Verdi Bach Weber
22. Wagner is famous for all of the following except:
rich orchestration coloratura arias full choruses use of the leitmotiv
23. Wagner wrote the texts for all of his operas:
24. The theme of finding love's fulfillment in death is central to:
Das Rheingold Tristan und Isolde Die Feen none of the above
25. The Ring of Nibelungen is Wagner's great cycle of four music dramas. One of its overarching themes is the destruction brought on by greed.