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Puccini Heroine Quiz

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1. The action in most of Puccini's operas seems to pivot around:

the enemy
the hero
the chorus
the heroine

2. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes the Puccini Heroine as "frail creatures who live and die for love". This is true of all of the following except:

Cio-Cio San
Manon Lescaut
Musetta
Mimi

3. Not all Puccini heroines are tragic figures. All of the following find happiness except:

Turandot
Musetta
Magda
Minnie

4. The libretto for Tosca was taken from a play by:

Gozzi
Alexander Dumas the Younger
Hugo
Sardou

5. All of the following have off stage choirs except:

La Bohème
Madama Butterfly
Manon Lescaut
Tosca

6. Jealousy is a central emotion in all of the following operas except:

Il tabarro
Turandot
La Bohème
Tosca

7. The opera that first made Puccini famous was:

Madama Butterfly
Manon Lescaut
Turandot
Tosca

8. Puccini has heroines in all of the following professions except:

actress
poetess
saloon keeper
seamstress

9. Which Puccini opera was referred to by an English critic as "a shabby little shocker"?

Turandot
Manon Lescaut
Madama Butterfly
Tosca

10. Which Puccini opera had its first performance in New York City?

La Fanciulla del West
Manon Lescaut
Tosca
Suor Angelica