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1
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OPERA–200–The title role in “Boris Godunov” is for a singer in this vocal range

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bass

2
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OPERA–400–Peter Cornelius’ opera “The Barber of Baghdad” was based on a tale in this collection

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Arabian Nights

3
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OPERA–600–In Sir Arthur Sullivan’s “Ivanhoe”, “Ho, Jolly Jenkin” is an aria for this Friar

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Friar Tuck

4
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OPERA–800–Wagner didn’t want “Parsifal” performed outside of this city that now holds Wagner festivals

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Bayreuth

5
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OPERA–1000–His “Elecktra” in 1908 may have been electric, but it was his “Salome” 3 years earlier that was scandalous

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Richard Strauss

6
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OPERA–400–This 1893 opera based on a children’s tale is set partly in the woods of Ilsenstein

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Hansel and Gretel

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OPERA–800–A 1913 opera about this queen of Ithaca is based on an episode from “The Odyssey”

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Penelope

8
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OPERA–400–Eva has to marry the winner of a singing contest in Nuremberg in this comic opera by Wagner

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Die Meistersinger

9
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OPERA–1600–In 2004 the Royal Opera dropped soprano Deborah Voigt from “Ariadne Auf Naxos” for this reason

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she was too heavy

10
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OPERA–2000–The name of this comic opera by Mozart is sometimes translated as “So Do They All”

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Cosi Fan Tutte

11
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–Kochel No. 1 is the G major minuet & trio he composed when he was about 5

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Mozart

12
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–The well-traveled Felix Mendelssohn wrote “Italian” & “Scottish” ones

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symphonies

13
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1200–Born near Prague in 1841, he composed the following in 1863

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Antonin Dvorák

14
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1600–Ironically, one of the last works Franz Schubert heard was this type of mass, by his brother Ferdinand

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a requiem

15
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–2000–This Strauss waltz heard here commemorated a meeting between Franz Joseph I & Wilhelm II

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‘The Emperor Waltz’ (‘The Emperors Waltz’ accepted)

16
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BALLET & OPERA–400–Nutty about “The Nutcracker”? You’ve probably seen it during this month (that’s the month it was first performed, too)

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December

17
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BALLET & OPERA–800–Warning: If you play the role of Jemmy in the opera “William Tell”, you’ll get one of these shot off your head

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an apple

18
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BALLET & OPERA–1200–Haydn wrote several operas for these stringed toys, but someone must be hidin’ them; most of them are lost

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puppets (or marionettes)

19
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BALLET & OPERA–1600–Odile & Prince Sigfried are the deux-o who dance the Black Swan pas de deux in this ballet

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Swan Lake

20
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BALLET & OPERA–2000–In an opera based on history, the pharaoh Akhenaten gives up polygamy for this beautiful queen

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Nefertiti

21
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–Due to the color of his hair, this “Four Seasons” composer was known as “Il Prete Rosso”, or “The Red Priest”

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Vivaldi

22
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–Robert Schumann’s 1841 “Spring” symphony dealt with this important event in his life

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his wedding

23
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–3200–From 1937 to 1954 he directed NBC’s Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Toscanini

24
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1600–High school & college graduates should know that this march by Elgar is also known as “Land Of Hope And Glory”

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‘Pomp And Circumstance’

25
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–2000–In 1969 this French composer was selected to replace Leonard Bernstein as director of the N.Y. Philharmonic

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Pierre Boulez

26
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–Around 1915 Debussy composed 12 etudes in memory of this Polish-French composer

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Chopin

27
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–800–Beethoven’s father tried to promote him as a child prodigy, like this Salzburg-born genius

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Mozart

28
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1200–“The Tender Land” is a 1954 opera by this “Appalachian Spring” composer

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Copland

29
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1600–This Austrian composer’s Symphony No. 8 is known as the “Symphony of a Thousand”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Gustav) Mahler

30
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–2000–He supervised a 1907 phonograph recording of his own “Pagliacci”

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Leoncavallo

31
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–After seeing Verdi’s “Aida” he decided opera was to be his forte & came up with “La boheme” & “Tosca” among others

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Giacomo) Puccini

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CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–Arthur Sullivan in 1856 was the first person to receive the scholarship named for this “Bridal March” composer

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Felix) Mendelssohn

33
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1200–For the ballet “Coppelia” Leo Delibes used “The Sandman”, one of the “Tales of” this author

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E.T.A. Hoffman

34
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1600–In 1874 Ibsen asked Edvard Grieg to compose incidental music for this play

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Peer Gynt

35
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–2000–Italian for “a whim”, Strauss used it as an opera title, Paganini for a violin study

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a capriccio

36
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–400–A famous trio was made up of Eugene Istomin on piano, Leonard Rose on cello & Isaac Stern on this

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violin

37
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–800–In March of 2004 this renowned tenor made his farewell Metropolitan Opera apparance, in “Tosca”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Luciano) Pavarotti

38
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–1200–In his early teens, around 1890, he studied cello in Barcelona with Jose Garcia

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Pablo) Casals

39
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–1600–30 years older, this composer was a pal of Vladimir Horowitz, who could really bang out his 3rd Piano Concerto

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Sergei Vassilievich) Rachmaninoff

40
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–2000–La Diva Renee is a dessert named for this popular soprano

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Renée) Fleming

41
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–100–This “Messiah” composer’s first job was as a church organist in Halle, Germany, at age 17

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Georg Handel

42
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–200–“Variations on a Theme by Haydn” was this “lullaby” composer’s first major work for full orchestra

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Johannes Brahms

43
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–300–In 1977, his “Immortal Beloved” was identified as Antonie Brentano, wife of a merchant

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Beethoven

44
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–This father-in-law of Richard Wagner died July 31, 1886, during the Wagner festival at Bayreuth

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Franz Liszt

45
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–500–He composed his “Leningrad Symphony” during the World War II siege of Leningrad

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Dmitri Shostakovich

46
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OPERA–200–Robert Guilliaume appeared in a 1965 production of this Gershwin work at the Vienna Volksoper

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Porgy and Bess

47
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OPERA–400–Title shared by the Puccini and Leoncavallo operas about Mimi, a poor seamstress

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La bohème

48
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OPERA–600–This “Lohengrin” composer’s first opera, “Die Fein”, wasn’t performed until 1888, five years after his death

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Richard Wagner

49
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OPERA–200–In Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung”, she dies by riding her horse onto Siegfried’s funeral pyre

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Brunhilde

50
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OPERA–800–“Savitre”, by this composer of “The Planets”, is based on an episode in “The Mahabarata”

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Holst

51
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OPERA–400–Naval rank of Pinkerton in “Madame Butterfly”

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lieutenant

52
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OPERA–1000–Hedwig Lachmann translated an Oscar Wilde play into German for this Richard Strauss opera

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Salome

53
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OPERA–600–Of “Benvenuto Cellini”, “Boris Godunov”, and “Eugene Onegin”, the two who were historic figures

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Cellini and Godunov

54
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OPERA–800–In Germany, this opera is sometimes called “Margarethe” to separate it from the Goethe drama

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Faust

55
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OPERA–1000–In this operetta, Prince Orlovsky calls champagne “the king of all wines”

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Die Fleidermaus

56
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YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA–400–We’re not stringing you along: “El Retablo de Maese Pedro” is meant to be peformed by these toys

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puppets

57
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YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA–800–At the beginning of an 1893 opera, these little tykes are sent into the woods to pick strawberries

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Hansel

58
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YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA–1200–King Solomon is a character in “La Reine de Saba”, an opera about the queen of this place

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Sheba

59
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YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA–1600–Flosshilde is a Rhinemaiden in this composer’s “Das Rheingold”

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Richard Wagner

60
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YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA–800–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Jimmy of the Clue Crew blows an alphorn in front of a Tyrolean chalet.) Appropriately, an alphorn call is imitated in the overture to this 1829 Rossini opera

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William Tell

61
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–200–On the eve of the premiere of “Carmen”, he was named a chevalier of the legion of honor

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Georges Bizet

62
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–It was musicographer Ludwing Von Kochel who assigned the “K” numbers to this man’s musical works

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W.A. Mozart

63
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1000–In April, 1759, this German-born composer was buried in Westminster Abbey

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Handel

64
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–800–Upon his death, this Hungarian pianist’s manuscripts passed to the Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein

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Franz Liszt

65
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1000–In 1933 this “Sabre Dance” composer married fellow Russian composer Nina Makarova

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Aram Khatchatourian

66
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HISTORICAL OPERAS–100–In an 1846 opera, this Hun gets stabbed to death by his honey, Odabella

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Attila

67
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HISTORICAL OPERAS–200–You need a mezzo to play this beautiful queen in Phillip Glass’s opera “Akhenaton”

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Nefertiti

68
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HISTORICAL OPERAS–300–This Aztec is the title character in operas by Karl Heinrich Braun & Roger Sessions

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Montezuma

69
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HISTORICAL OPERAS–2000–At the end of Donizetti’s opera “Anna Bolena”, this woman is Henry VIII’s new queen

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Jane Seymour

70
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HISTORICAL OPERAS–500–This Portuguese explorer falls in love with an African captive in Meyerbeer’s opera, “L’Africaine”

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Vasco da Gama

71
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COMPOSERS–200–Written in 1966, “Requiem Canticles” was the last major work by this composer of “The Firebird”

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Igor Stravinsky

72
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COMPOSERS–400–Court composer Michel-Richard De Lalande gave harpsichord lessons to this “Sun King”’s daughters

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Louis XIV

73
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COMPOSERS–1000–In 1969 he was named Conductor Laureate for life of the New York Philharmonic

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Leonard Bernstein

74
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COMPOSERS–800–This Viennese composer called one of his many waltzes “Wiener Blut”, which means “Vienna Blood”

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Johann Strauss

75
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COMPOSERS–1000–This Austrian composer wasn’t Mozart’s father, but Mozart did call him “Papa”

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Franz Josef Haydn

76
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OPERA–400–Cleopatra (soprano) & Curio (bass) appear in Handel’s opera about this man (contralto) in Egypt

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Julius Caesar

77
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OPERA–800–He wrote the ragtime opera “A Guest of Honor”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Scott) Joplin

78
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OPERA–1200–This Verdi opera was first performed on Dec. 24, 1871, in Cairo

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Aida

79
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OPERA–1600–In a Puccini opera, he marries then abandons Cio-Cio-San

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Pinkerton

80
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OPERA–2000–In a Wagner opera, this title knight tells Elsa he’ll marry her so long as she never asks his identity

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Lohengrin

81
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OPERAS BY CHARACTER–400–Dick Deadeye, a sailor;Admiral Sir Joseph Porter;Captain Corcoran

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H.M.S. Pinafore

82
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OPERAS BY CHARACTER–800–Narraboth,Herodias,John the Baptist

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Salome

83
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OPERAS BY CHARACTER–1200–Klingsor, a sorcerer;Amfortas, keeper of the grail;Gurnemanz, a knight

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Parsifal

84
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OPERAS BY CHARACTER–1600–Beppe,Silvio,Canio the head clown

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I Pagliacci

85
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OPERAS BY CHARACTER–2000–The Duke of Mantua,Gilda,Count Monterone

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Rigoletto

86
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OPERA–200–The Lone Ranger’s theme is the opera’s overture

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (The)

87
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OPERA–400–Profession of Rossini’s Figaro

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a barber

88
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OPERA–1000–This aria from “Pagliacci” gave him the first million-selling record ever

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Enrico Caruso

89
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OPERA–800–Lt. Pinkerton’s girlfriend Cio-Cio-San

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Madame Butterfly

90
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OPERA–1000–1976 was also the bicentennial of this famed Milan opera house

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Teatro alla Scala

91
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–Mendelssohn was one of the first to use this to conduct

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Baton

92
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–In a pipe organ, a pipe’s shape affects its tone quality, and its length determines this

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Pitch

93
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1500–Of the three “B”’s, the one who left town when rejected as Philharmonic conductor in his native Hamburg

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Johannes Brahms

94
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–Pehaps the greatest violinist ever, this Italian could play a whole piece on just one string

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Niccolo Paganini

95
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–This great concert pianist and Polish premier was a friend of Liberace’s family

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Ignace Jan Paderewski

96
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OPERA–200–The “marriage” of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva’s chateau

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Figaro

97
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OPERA–400–This opera’s best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San’s “Un Bel Di Vedremo”

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Madame Butterfly

98
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OPERA–600–Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory

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‘Carmen’

99
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OPERA–800–The title character in this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked jester

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‘Rigoletto’

100
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OPERA–1000–Beethoven wrote 4 overtures for this opera

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‘Fidelio’

101
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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–200–It’s the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn’s opera “Le Marchand de Venise”

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The Merchant of Venice

102
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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–400–The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers

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Romeo

103
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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–600–You’ll need some long-winded singers to star in “Stormen”, a Swedish opera based on this play

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The Tempest

104
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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–800–Verdi wrote an aria called “La Luce Langue”–The Light Fails–for this bloothirsty villainess

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Lady Macbeth

105
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SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS–500–Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet

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Othello

106
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–100–Baptized Joannes Chrystostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, he commonly called himself Wolfgang Amade

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Mozart

107
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–200–He dedicated his “Moonlight Sonata” to the countess Giulietta Guicciardi

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Beethoven

108
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–300–His “1812 Overture” premiered in Moscow in 1882–not 1812

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Tchaikovsky

109
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–This “Aida” composer was a deputy in the first Italian parliament in Turin in 1860

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Giuseppe Verdi

110
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–500–He composed several works based on poems by Paul Verlaine, including “Ariettes Oubliees” & “Clair De Lune”

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Claude Debussy

111
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COMPOSERS–400–Each of his “Four Seasons” is accompanied by a poem that he wrote

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Vivaldi

112
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COMPOSERS–800–At 25 he wrote his symphony in B minor consisting of 2 completed movements, an unfinished third & no fourth

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Schubert

113
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COMPOSERS–1200–His most famous work, “Finlandia”, was first performed in 1899

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Sibelius

114
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COMPOSERS–2000–In 1988, more than 40 years after his death, his remains were moved from New York to Budapest for a state funeral

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Béla) Bartók

115
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COMPOSERS–2000–Featured in “Somewhere in Time”, his beautiful “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” is heard here

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Rachmaninoff

116
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COMPOSERS–200–This American wrote “Rhapsody in Blue” in 1924 & “Second Rhapsody” in 1931

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George Gershwin

117
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COMPOSERS–400–His father Leopold called him “The miracle which God let be born in Salzburg”

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W.A. Mozart

118
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COMPOSERS–600–This Norwegian “Peer Gynt Suite” composer married his first cousin, singer Nina Hagerup, in 1867

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Edward Grieg

119
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COMPOSERS–800–This German Baroque composer wrote his “Hunt Cantata” for the birthday of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels

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J.S. Bach

120
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COMPOSERS–1000–He composed his “Moravian Duets” before he moved to the U.S. & wrote his “New World Symphony”

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Antonin Dvorak

121
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GERMAN COMPOSERS–400–In 1874, after more than 20 years, he finally completed his entire “Ring” cycle with “The Twilight of the Gods”

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Wagner

122
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GERMAN COMPOSERS–800–Robert Schumann’s high hopes for “Genoveva”, his only one of these works, were dashed by a Leipzig audience

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an opera

123
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GERMAN COMPOSERS–1200–When his brother Kaspar died in 1815, he became co-guardian of Kaspar’s 9-year-old son Karl

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Beethoven

124
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GERMAN COMPOSERS–1600–We’re fortunate to have the “Fingal’s Cave” overture by this composer whose first name means “fortunate”

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Felix Mendelssohn

125
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GERMAN COMPOSERS–2200–In 1940 he wrote “Japanische Festmusik” as a gesture of friendship between Germany & Japan

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Richard Strauss

126
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MORE OPERATIC DEMISES–200–In a biblical opera, this shorn strongman really brings down the house; his audience was just crushed

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Samson

127
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MORE OPERATIC DEMISES–400–A crap game on Catfish Row turns deadly when Crown kills Robbins with a cotton-hook in this opera

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Porgy

128
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MORE OPERATIC DEMISES–1300–In a Melville-inspired opera, this young sailor is hanged from the yardarm of the H.M.S. Indomitable

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Billy Budd

129
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MORE OPERATIC DEMISES–800–In “Elegy for Young Lovers”, 2 lovers expire while searching for edelweiss in this country’s Eastern Alps

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Austria

130
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MORE OPERATIC DEMISES–1000–In a Richard Strauss opera, this daughter of Agamemnon is so “complex” that she dances herself to death

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Elektra

131
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COMPOSERS–200–His younger brother Josef composed waltzes too

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Johann Strauss

132
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COMPOSERS–100–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (AUDIO Daily Double):Composer of the opera that included the following; it premiered in Vienna, May 1, 1786:

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W.A. Mozart

133
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COMPOSERS–600–Born in Bergen in 1843, he’s been called “The most distinguished Norwegian composer of the 19th century”

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Edward Grieg

134
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COMPOSERS–800–This “Babes in Toyland” composer helped found the organization known as ASCAP

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Victor Herbert

135
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COMPOSERS–1000–His “Pomp And Circumstance” is actually a set of 5 marches

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Edward Elgar

136
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ITALIAN COMPOSERS–400–Venetian concerto master Antonio

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Vivaldi

137
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ITALIAN COMPOSERS–800–Giacomo, who found Giuseppe Verdi influential

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Puccini

138
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ITALIAN COMPOSERS–1200–Gioacchino, of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” fame

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Rossini

139
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ITALIAN COMPOSERS–2000–Ottorino; he pined for Rome

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Respighi

140
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ITALIAN COMPOSERS–2000–Vincenzo, who made a “Norma” conquest

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Bellini

141
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–400–The first name of this cellist born in 1955 means “friendship”

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Yo-Yo Ma

142
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–800–At age 13 this violinist from Israel was presented to the U.S. by Ed Sullivan

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Itzhak Perlman

143
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–1200–When this classical guitarist made his formal Paris debut in 1924, the program included a work named for him

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Segovia

144
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–1600–He married Mia Farrow in 1970

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André Previn

145
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CLASSICAL MUSICIANS–2000–This violinist, seenhere, was born in Osaka in 1971

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Midori

146
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OPERA–0–One-word title of the Verdi opera set in Windsor, England in the 15th century

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“Falstaff”

147
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OPERA–100–Giulio Rospigliosi, who held this office as Clement IX, wrote the libretto for the first comic opera

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The Pope/Papacy

148
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OPERA–200–Both Stravinsky’s “The Nightingale” & Puccini’s “Turandot” are set in this country

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China

149
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OPERA–300–This nation opened its first opera house on the banks of the Amstel River in 1986

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The Netherlands/Holland

150
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OPERA–400–This Verdi jester is considered one of the most challenging baritone roles ever written

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Rigoletto

151
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OPERA–500–“Boris Godunov” is the only opera completed by this composer

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Modest Mussorgsky

152
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ROSSINI OPERAS–400–Rudolph is the commander of Gessler’s archers in this opera

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William Tell

153
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ROSSINI OPERAS–800–He’s the local barber & general busybody in an 1816 Rossini opera

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Figaro

154
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ROSSINI OPERAS–1200–The prince sings, “Si, ritrovarla, io guiro” (“Yes, I will find her, I swear it”) in this fairy tale opera

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La Cenerentola

155
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ROSSINI OPERAS–1600–This 1819 Rossini opera is based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott

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The Lady of the Lake

156
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ROSSINI OPERAS–2000–The title character of this 1816 opera is in service with the Venetian army

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Otello

157
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–While living in Paris in 1829, he wrote his last opera, “William Tell”

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Gioachino Rossini

158
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–Beethoven originally dedicated his 1804 “Eroica” symphony to this world leader

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Napoleon

159
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–He was born in 1756; the son of the assistant concertmaster to the Prince of Salzburg

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W.A. Mozart

160
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–This French composer’s 1894 work, “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn”, illustrated a Mallarme poem

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Claude Debussy

161
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–This Russian’s popular Polovitzian dances are from his 1890 opera “Prince Igor”

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Alexander Borodin

162
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OH, NO! IT’S OPERA!–400–George Gershwin personally asked Howard University voice professor Todd Duncan to originate this title role

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Porgy

163
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OPERA–0–This 20th century opera was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s painting “The Adoration of the Magi”

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Amahl and the Night Visitors

164
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OH, NO! IT’S OPERA!–800–The works of this novelist & poet inspired “Lucia di Lammermoor”, “La Donna del Lago” & “La Jolie Fille de Perth”

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Sir Walter Scott

165
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OH, NO! IT’S OPERA!–1200–This composer of “Cavalleria Rusticana” wrote “Il Piccolo Marat”, a sadly neglected opera about the Reign of Terror

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Mascagni

166
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OH, NO! IT’S OPERA!–1600–If you dread operas about druids, this 1831 Bellini opus is sure to “Gaul” you

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Norma

167
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OH, NO! IT’S OPERA!–2000–This Greek tragic heroine is the subject of 2 Gluck operas, one set in Aulis & one in Tauris

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Iphigénie

168
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OPERA CHARACTERS–200–When this Gypsy girl spurns Don Jose’s affection, he kills her with a dagger

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Carmen

169
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OPERA CHARACTERS–400–He was “The Barber of Seville” prior to becoming Count Almaviva’s valet

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Figaro

170
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OPERA CHARACTERS–3000–Cio-Cio-San, the geisha in love with Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton, is better known by this nickname

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‘Madame Butterfly’

171
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OPERA CHARACTERS–800–He’s the hunchback jester to the Duke of Mantua in a Verdi opera

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Rigoletto

172
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OPERA CHARACTERS–1000–Satan, using this name, appears to Faust & agrees to give him youth in return for his soul

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Mephistopheles

173
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OPERA–100–This queen is a leading character in the epic 20th century opera “Christophe Colomb”

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Queen Isabella

174
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OPERA–200–“The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountain” is an opera based on this John Bunyan work

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The Pilgrim’s Progress

175
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OPERA–300–Both of these opera companies are based at Lincoln Center

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Metropolitan

176
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OPERA–400–In English, the name of this Verdi opera means “The Troubadour”

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Il trovatore

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OPERA–500–Birgit Nilsson is best known for her heroic roles in this composer’s operas

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Richard Wagner

178
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OPERA–200–Verdi fans always want “moor” of this Shakespearean hero

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Othello

179
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OPERA–400–He wrote Brunhilde’s immolation, opera’s longest aria of nearly 15 minutes

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Wagner

180
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–Richard Horowitz, a timpanist with the Met, makes these sticks that a conductor uses

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Batons

181
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–Indian-born music director of the Israel Philharmonic, he also conducts the New York Philharmonic

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Zubin Mehta

182
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–A Ft. Worth piano contest is named for this winner of the 1958 Int’l Tchaikovsky Competition

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Van Cliburn

183
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–For the 1991-2 bicentennial of this composer’s death, 800 of his works will be performed at Lincoln Center

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W.A. Mozart

184
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–If Beethoven rolled over in his grave, he’d find this composer of the Incidental Music to Rosamunde

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Franz Schubert

185
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OPERA LIBRETTISTS–200–This “Ragtime” composer wrote the libretto for his own opera, “Trimonisha”, and choreographed it too

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Scott Joplin

186
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OPERA LIBRETTISTS–400–This French novelist, a pere without peer, penned the libretto for Monpou’s “Le Piquillo”

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Alexandre Dumas

187
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OPERA LIBRETTISTS–600–The childrens’ opera “The Fisherman and His Wife” has a libretto by this author: “Rabbit, Run” to see it

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John Updike

188
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OPERA LIBRETTISTS–800–“J’Accuse” this “Nana” novelist of writing the libretto for Bruneau’s opera “Messidor”

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Emile Zola

189
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OPERA LIBRETTISTS–1000–“Ariane & Bluebeard” features a libretto by this Belgian who gave us “The Blue Bird”

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Maurice Maeterlinck

190
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–Schubert wrote one of these in C for the unusual grouping of 2 violins, 1 viola & 2 cellos

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a quintet

191
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–Piano sonatas were a specialty of Johann Christian, youngest surviving son of this man

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Johann Sebastian Bach

192
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1200–He was working on his 3rd symphony when he died in England in 1934; it premiered in 1998 amid much “pomp”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Sir Edward) Elgar

193
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1600–The composition Carl Orff titled this has been heard on many movie soundtracks

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‘Carmina Burana’

194
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–A swan and tortoises are among the creatures depicted in this Saint-Saens suite

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Carnival of the Animals

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THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY–200–Of a village, a convent or a factory, it’s where “Cavalleria Rusticana” is set

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a village

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THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY–400–Virgil Thomson’s 1933 opera “Four Saints In Three” of these actually has 4 of them

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Acts

197
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THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY–600–Sung by Rodolfo to Mimi, “Che Gelida Manina”, “Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen”, is a beloved aria in this opera

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La bohème

198
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THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY–200–In 1935 black soprano Anne Brown originated this Gershwin role

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Bess

199
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THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY–1000–Debussy wrote an opera about Pelleas & this woman, his brother’s wife

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Mélisande

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OPERA–200–This Austrian composer’s 1790 opera “Cosi Fan Tutte” is set in 18th c. Naples

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W.A. Mozart

201
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OPERA–400–Donizetti’s opera about this female Borgia is based on a play by Victor Hugo

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Lucrezia Borgia

202
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OPERA–600–The first scene of this composer’s “Das Rheingold” takes place at the bottom of the Rhine

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Richard Wagner

203
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OPERA–800–Bellini’s 1831 opera “Norma” had its world premiere at this Milan opera house

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La Scala

204
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OPERA–1000–Maria Callas was noted for her passionate performance in this composer’s “Tosca”

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Giacomo Puccini

205
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COMPOSERS–200–Of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, or Irving Goldberg, the composer of “The Goldberg Variations”

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J.S. Bach

206
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COMPOSERS–400–His biblical oratorios include “Saul”, “Jephtha”, “Esther” & “Belshazzar”

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G.F. Handel

207
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COMPOSERS–600–In 1840 this German romantic married Clara Wieck, an outstanding pianist & a composer, too

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Robert Schumann

208
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COMPOSERS–800–Cesar Franck said this composer of “Symphonie Fantastique” wrote nothing but masterpieces

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Hector Berlioz

209
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COMPOSERS–1000–His family added Bartholdy to its name when they inherited property from a relative

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Felix Mendelssohn

210
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COMPOSERS–200–At age 8 this Polish-French composer played a piano concerto by Ghirivetz in public

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Frederic Chopin

211
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COMPOSERS–400–About 200 church cantatas by this composer of “The Goldberg Variations” survive

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J.S. Bach

212
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COMPOSERS–1000–This composer’s father, Abraham, converted to Protestantism & appended Bartholdi to the family name

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Felix Mendelssohn

213
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COMPOSERS–800–This “Clair De Lune” composer orchestrated 2 numbers from Erik Satie’s “Gymnopedie”

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Claude Debussy

214
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COMPOSERS–1000–Rimsky-Korsakov’s reorchestration of his “A Night on Bald Mountain” debuted after his death

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Modest Moussorgsky

215
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–As published, his “Eroica” symphony was dedicated to his patron Prince Lobkowitz

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Beethoven

216
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–800–He wrote “William Tell” at age 37, but no other operas during the remaining 39 years of his life

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Gioacchino) Rossini

217
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1200–In his 20s this “New World” symphony composer played viola in the Czech nat’l theater under Smetana

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Dvorak

218
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–2800–His family was Jewish but his father became a protestant & added Bartholdy to the last name

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Felix Mendelssohn

219
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–2000–Around 1813 he set Goethe’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade” to music

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Franz Schubert

220
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20th CENTURY OPERAS–200–Concepcion’s lovers hid inside clocks in this “Bolero” composer’s opera “L’heure espangnole”

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Ravel

221
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20th CENTURY OPERAS–400–“The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore” is a satirical opera by this man who created Amahl

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Gian Carlo) Menotti

222
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20th CENTURY OPERAS–600–He wrote the music for “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny”; Brecht wrote the libretto

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Kurt Weill

223
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20th CENTURY OPERAS–800–This Swede’s 1907 play “The Ghost Sonata” inspired a 1984 chamber opera by Aribert Reimann

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Strindberg

224
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20th CENTURY OPERAS–1000–“The Burning Fiery Furnace” is a Biblical opera by this composer of “Billy Budd”

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Benjamin Britten

225
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OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES “C”–200–“The Great” EnricoINSERT INTO clue VALUES (6)

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Caruso

226
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OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES “C”–400–The Royal Danish Opera’s home cityINSERT INTO clue VALUES (10)

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Copenhagen

227
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OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES “C”–600–Sultry Sevillian cigarette-makerINSERT INTO clue VALUES (6)

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Carmen

228
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OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES “C”–800–The Maria who played Medea in 1953INSERT INTO clue VALUES (6)

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Callas

229
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OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES “C”–1000–Vocal range of Dame Clara ButtINSERT INTO clue VALUES (9)

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contralto

230
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–200–After hearing the variations on “Don Giovanni”, Robert Schumann called this Polish composer “a genius”

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Chopin

231
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–In 1874 he moved into his Bayreuth home, Wahnfried, which means “peace from illusion”

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Wagner

232
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–600–He wrote his Wedding March, from music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, 5 years after his own wedding

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Mendelssohn

233
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–2000–This Frenchman dedicated his 1908 “Children’s Corner” suite to his daughter Claude-Emma

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Debussy

234
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1000–The Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, inspired many of his works, including “The Swan of Tuonela”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Jean) Sibelius

235
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OPERA–100–He composed a 1-act jazz opera called “Blue Monday” 13 years before “Porgy & Bess”

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George Gershwin

236
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OPERA–400–Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera about Mozart’s rivalry with this man, who allegedly poisoned him

A

Antonio Salieri

237
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OPERA–500–He wrote his 1st opera, “The Death of Pierrot”, at age 11; the one about Amahl came much later

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Gian Carlo Menotti

238
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FUN WITH OPERA–100–In “Johnny Strikes Up”, a violin performance at the North Pole inspires the whole world to do this 1920s dance

A

the Charleston

239
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FUN WITH OPERA–200–It was truly a red-letter day when an opera based on this Hawthorne novel premiered in Boston in 1896

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The Scarlet Letter

240
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FUN WITH OPERA–300–“The Jesters’ Supper” was first performed in this city where you’ll find Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”

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Milan

241
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FUN WITH OPERA–400–In an 1893 opera, the Sandman puts this young title duo to sleep & the Dew Fairy wakes them up

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Hansel

242
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FUN WITH OPERA–500–In Nicolai’s opera “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket

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Falstaff

243
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–0–It’s the roughly 70-minute work that includes the sung words “Alle menschen werden bruder”

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Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

244
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NOVEL OPERAS–200–It inspired 2 operas named “Esmeralda” & one called “Quasimodo”

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

245
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NOVEL OPERAS–400–Prokofiev spent over 10 years turning this Tolstoy epic into an opera

A

‘War And Peace’

246
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NOVEL OPERAS–600–Scotsman whose novel, “The Bride of Lammermoor” inspired “Lucia di Lammermoor”

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Sir Walter Scott

247
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NOVEL OPERAS–800–He died before “The Trial” was published, so he never got to see the opera version either

A

Franz Kafka

248
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NOVEL OPERAS–1000–The Benjamin Britten opera based on this Herman Melville work climaxes with a hanging

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Billy Budd

249
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–100–A traditional string quartet is made up of 2 violins, 1 viola & 1 of these instruments

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a cello

250
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–500–Composer of the 18th c. work that includes the following:

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George Frideric Handel (‘Hallelujah Chorus’ from

251
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–300–Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan, wrote an opera based on this Walter Scott character

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Ivanhoe

252
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–This Sibelius work was banned by Russia because it inspired patriotism among Finns

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‘Finlandia’ (The National Anthem)

253
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–500–The English translation of this Debussy work’s title is “Moonlight”

A

‘Clair de Lune’

254
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COMPOSERS–200–Shortly before his death, this “Nutcracker” composer received an hon. doctorate from Cambridge Univ.

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Tchaikovsky

255
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COMPOSERS–400–In addition to marches, he composed an orchestral piece inspired by the novel “Ben-Hur”

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Sousa

256
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COMPOSERS–600–His “Bolero” had its American debut at a 1929 concert of the N.Y. Philharmonic-Symphony

A

Ravel

257
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COMPOSERS–800–A 1791 Handel music festival inspired him to compose the oratorio “The Creation”

A

Haydn

258
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COMPOSERS–1000–Early in his career, Igor Stravinsky was tutored by this “Flight of the Bumblebee” composer

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Rimsky-Korsakov

259
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OPERA–200–Spontini’s opera about this adventurer’s conquest of Mexico premiered in 1809

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Hernando Cortez

260
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OPERA–400–Operas based on this Norwegian’s plays include “The Feast at Solhaug” & “Peer Gynt”

A

Henrik Ibsen

261
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OPERA–600–This composer of “The Mikado” wrote only 1 grand opera, “Ivanhoe”

A

Sir Arthur Sullivan

262
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COMPOSERS–200–His sister Fanny Mendelssohn wrote some of the songs attributed to him

A

Felix Mendelssohn

263
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COMPOSERS–400–Of the 3 Bs, the 2 who died in Vienna

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Beethoven

264
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COMPOSERS–1200–It was rumored that he committed suicide over the failure of his last symphony, the “Pathetique”

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (‘6th Symphony’)

265
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COMPOSERS–800–G. Strepponi sang in “Nabucco”, the opera that made this composer famous, & later married him

A

Giuseppe Verdi

266
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COMPOSERS–1000–Mussorgsky once lived with this “Scheherazade” composer who re-edited “Boris Godunov” after his death

A

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

267
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–Noted with a dot on the score, it’s the opposite of legato

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Staccato

268
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–English title of Paul Dukas’ symphonic piece “L’ Apprenti Sorcier”

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‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’

269
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Most people know its first 4 notes; these are its last notes:

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Beethoven’s ‘Fifth Symphony’

270
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–Stalin’s death the next day pushed this “Peter & The Wolf” composer’s obit off the front page

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Sergei Prokofiev

271
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–Friml gave us the “Donkey Serenade”, but he gave us the whole “Carnival Of Animals”

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Camille Saint-Saens

272
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COMPOSERS–200–Berlioz neglected his medical studies in this capital, preferring to spend his nights at the opera

A

Paris

273
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COMPOSERS–400–A master composer of ballets, he was the leading Russian composer of the late 19th century

A

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

274
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COMPOSERS–600–Friedrich Nietzsche was a close friend of this “Lohengrin” composer but later turned against him

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Richard Wagner

275
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COMPOSERS–800–First name shared by Vivaldi & Salieri

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Antonio

276
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COMPOSERS–3400–Despite his protests, Claude Debussy’s distinctive style was labeled this

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Impressionistic

277
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OPERA–200–The title of Donizetti’s opera “La Fille Du Regiment” translates to this

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‘The Daughter of the Regiment’

278
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OPERA–400–“Lakme” is set in this country, where Lakme is the daughter of a Brahman priest

A

India

279
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OPERA–600–Of a baritone, a bass or a tenor, what Caruso was

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Tenor

280
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OPERA–800–Pietro Mascagni said, “It is a pity I wrote” this opera “first. I was crowned before I became king.”

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‘Cavaliera Rusticana’

281
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OPERA–1000–In Verdi’s opera “Don Carlos”, Don Carlos is the son of this 16th century Spanish king

A

King Philip II

282
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–His Symphony in B Minor wasn’t his only unfinished composition – just the most famous

A

Franz Schubert

283
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–In 1928 Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to write a ballet, so he created “Bolero”

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Maurice Ravel

284
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–Early in his career he was the musical director of La Scala; he later led the NBC Symphony

A

Arturo Toscanini

285
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–4600–Modern composer who was called the world’s outstanding specialist on Hungarian folk music

A

Bela Bartok

286
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CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–The Vale Giulia, The Tritone, The Trevi & one at the Villa Medici were his “Fountains of Rome”

A

Otto Resphighi

287
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OPERA CHARACTERS–200–His son, Nanki-Poo, poses as a minstrel & later weds Yum-Yum

A

The Mikado

288
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OPERA CHARACTERS–400–In “The Ring of the Nibelung”, Siegfried braved a ring of fire to save this goddess

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Brunhilde

289
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OPERA CHARACTERS–600–He was the crippled 12-year-old title character in the first opera written for television

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Amahl

290
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OPERA CHARACTERS–800–They were the son & daughter of Peter, a poor broom maker & his wife, Gertrude

A

Hansel

291
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OPERA CHARACTERS–1000–At the end of “I Pagliacci”, this clown stabs his wife, Nedda, & her lover, Silvio

A

Canio

292
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COMPOSERS–200–In 1863 he became music director of the court balls in Vienna

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Johann) Strauss

293
Q

COMPOSERS–400–By his death at age 31 in 1828, he’d composed more than 600 lieder including “Ave Maria”

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Schubert

294
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COMPOSERS–600–This composer of the ballet “Rodeo” scored an Oscar for his score from “The Heiress”

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Copland

295
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COMPOSERS–800–In 1927 the Baldwin Piano Co. sponsored this Hungarian composer’s first visit to the U.S.

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Béla Bartók

296
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COMPOSERS–1000–He’s the French composer of the following

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Erik) Satie

297
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OPERA–200–After his death in 1958, Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto’s opera “Juha” premiered on radio in this capital

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Helsinki

298
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OPERA–400–This 1791 Mozart opera is the greatest example of Zauberoper, or “Magic Opera”

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‘The Magic Flute’

299
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OPERA–600–Darius Milhaud wrote a 1932 opera about this Hapsburg emperor of Mexico

A

Maximilian

300
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OPERA CHARACTERS–200–In this Verdi opera, the king of Ethiopia is a baritone role while the king of Egypt is a bass

A

‘Aida’

301
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OPERA CHARACTERS–400–Her uncle The Bonze curses her for renouncing her religion to marry Lt. B.F. Pinkerton

A

Madame Butterfly

302
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OPERA CHARACTERS–1800–Angels guard this duo while they sleep in the forest in an 1893 opera

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Hansel

303
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OPERA CHARACTERS–800–In a Borodin opera, this title prince has a wife named Yaroslavna

A

Prince Igor

304
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OPERA CHARACTERS–1000–In Flotow’s opera “Martha”, Lady Harriet is a lady-in-waiting to this last Stuart queen of England

A

Queen Anne

305
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COMPOSERS–400–“La Clemenza di Tito”, this Austrian’s last opera, premiered just 3 months before his untimely death

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Mozart

306
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COMPOSERS–800–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Majestic Theatre in New York: “I’m on the Broadway set of The Phantom of the Opera.”) This man, who wanted to make “The Phantom of the Opera” his great romantic musical, also cowrote

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

307
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COMPOSERS–3000–Rikard Nordraak, who composed this country’s national anthem, was a friend of Edvard Grieg

A

Norway

308
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COMPOSERS–1600–His “Goldberg Variations” were named in honor of harpsichordist Johann Goldberg

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J.S. Bach

309
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COMPOSERS–2000–He was born in the Old World but found fame with his 1893 symphony “From the New World”

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Antonin) Dvorak

310
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OPERA–400–Act I of this “airborne” Wagner work includes a tenor aria about a sailor returning to his sweetheart

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The Flying Dutchman

311
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OPERA–800–In 1782 Mozart married Constanze & made Constanze the harem-bound heroine of “The Abduction from” here

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the Seraglio

312
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OPERA–2000–In a Richard Strauss opera, the princess sends one of these to her cavalier–hence the title

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a rose

313
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20TH CENTURY OPERA–200–As a student, film composer Nino Rota based an opera on this Dane’s fairy tale “The Prince And The Swineherd”

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Hans Christian Andersen

314
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20TH CENTURY OPERA–400–American composer Robert Ward based a 1961 opera on this author’s famous play “The Crucible”

A

Arthur Miller

315
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20TH CENTURY OPERA–600–When Torroba’s opera “El Poeta” premiered in 1980, this Spanish tenor played the title role

A

Placido Domingo

316
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COMPOSERS–200–“Lady, Be Good!” was the first show he wrote in full collaboration with his brother Ira

A

George Gershwin

317
Q

COMPOSERS–400–Published after his death, “The Art of the Fugue” was this Baroque composer’s last work

A

Johann Sebastian Bach

318
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COMPOSERS–600–As a teen, Prokofiev studied under this composer famous for his “Flight of the Bumblebee”

A

Rimsky-Korsakov

319
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OPERA–200–As a teen Gian Carlo Menotti turned this undersea H.C. Andersen fairy tale into an opera

A

‘The Little Mermaid’

320
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COMPOSERS–1000–Joseph Haydn told this man’s father, “Your son is the greatest composer I know”

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W.A. Mozart

321
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OPERA–400–In this Puccini work, Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, is sung by a baritone

A

‘Madame Butterfly’

322
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COMPOSERS–1000–“Fireworks” was an earlier work by this “Firebird” composer

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Igor Stravinsky

323
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OPERA–600–This Richard Strauss opera is a “Wilde” tale set around 30 A.D. in Galilee

A

‘Salome’

324
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OPERA–800–This “Billy The Kid” composer wrote 2 operas: “The Second Hurricane” & “The Tender Land”

A

Aaron Copland

325
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OPERA–1000–“The Tales of Hoffmann” was his last & greatest work

A

Jacques Offenbach

326
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OPERA–200–“Djamileh” is a comic opera by this composer of “Carmen”

A

Georges Bizet

327
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OPERA–400–Douglas Moore’s 1951 opera “Giants In” this is an adaptation of the novel by Ole E. Rolvaag

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The Earth

328
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OPERA–600–This oratorio composer’s 1735 opera “Ariodante” is based on “Orlando Furioso”

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George Frideric Handel

329
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OPERA–800–“Der Rosenkavalier” takes place in Vienna during the reign of this archduchess

A

Maria Theresa

330
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OPERA–1000–This “Turandot” composer’s opera “Sister Angelica” is set in a convent & has an all-female cast

A

Giacomo Puccini

331
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OPERA–400–Puccini included a passage from “The Star-Spangled Banner” in one of Pinkerton’s numbers in this opera

A

Madame Butterfly

332
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OPERA–3000–A highlight of this tragic opera set in Palestine is the “Dance of the Seven Veils”

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Salome

333
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OPERA–1200–He’s Verdi’s title hunchbacked court jester

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Rigoletto

334
Q

OPERA–1600–In Act I of “La boheme”, this poet keeps a fire burning in the chilly attic by sacrificing his manuscript

A

Rodolfo

335
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OPERA–2000–In a Richard Strauss opera title, the name of this daughter of Minos precedes “auf Naxos”

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Ariadne

336
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–Born in Cologne, this “Tales of Hoffman” composer became a French citizen in 1860

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Offenbach

337
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–800–This composer’s daughter Cosima married Hans von Bulow in 1857 & Richard Wagner in 1870

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Franz Liszt

338
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1200–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Jon of the Clue Crew walks up the nave of the Marienkirche in Lubeck, Germany.) In 1705 this 20-year-old composer walked 200 miles to hear Dietrich Buxtehude play organ at Lubeck’s Marienkirche

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JINSERT INTO clue VALUES (ohann) SINSERT INTO clue VALUES (ebastian) Bach

339
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–6000–In 1726 this German composer became a naturalized British subject

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (George Frideric) Handel

340
Q

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–2000–In 1931 this “Pomp”ous English composer was made a baronet

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Sir Edward) Elgar

341
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–200–This “Messiah” composer’s “Rinaldo” was the first Italian opera written for the London stage

A

George Frideric Handel

342
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–After the death of his father in 1695, he went to live & study with his brother, Johann Christoph

A

Johann Sebastian Bach

343
Q

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–600–After his breakup with novelist George Sand in 1847, he composed no more works

A

Frederic Chopin

344
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–800–“Claire de Lune”, the 3rd movement of this French composer’s’ “Suite Bergamasque”, is often played separately

A

Claude Debussy

345
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CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1000–“My Musical Life” was the 1909 memoir of this “Scheherazade” composer

A

Rimsky-Korsakov

346
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OPERA–200–In a Verdi opera, Odabella saves this famous Hun from being poisoned so she can kill him herself

A

Attila

347
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OPERA–400–This Austrian was just 14 when he composed his 1770 opera “Mitridate, Re Di Ponto”

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W.A. Mozart

348
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OPERA–600–A buzzard flies overhead & inspires the cast of this Gershwin opera to sing “The Buzzard Song”

A

‘Porgy And Bess’

349
Q

OPERA–800–“The Witches”, the 1st opera by this composer of “Madama Butterfly”, may be based on the ballet “Giselle”

A

Giacomo Puccini

350
Q

OPERA–1000–This composer of the “New World Symphony” wrote the operas “The Cunning Peasant” & “The Pigheaded Peasants”

A

Antonin Dvorak

351
Q

COMPOSERS–0–He moved to Vienna in 1766; in 1778 he presented his native Italy with the first opera staged at La Scala

A

Antonio Salieri

352
Q

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–200–He wrote the “1812 Overture” to commemorate Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow

A

Peter I. Tchaikovsky

353
Q

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–400–In 1713 this oratorio composer wrote a “Birthday Ode for Queen Anne”

A

George Frideric Handel

354
Q

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–600–His symphony “From The New World” premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1893

A

Antonin Dvorak

355
Q

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–800–This Austrian’s “Quintet In A Major” is better known as “Die Forelle” or “Trout Quintet”

A

Franz Schubert

356
Q

CLASSICAL COMPOSERS–1000–Completed in the 1930s, this Hungarian’s work “Mikrokosmos” consists of 153 piano pieces for children

A

Bela Bartok

357
Q

LITERARY OPERAS–200–Australian composer Arthur Benjamin’s 1953 opera “A Tale of Two Cities” is based on a novel by this author

A

Charles Dickens

358
Q

LITERARY OPERAS–400–“The Tales Of” this German inspired many an opera, including Busoni’s “Die Brautval”

A

Hoffmann

359
Q

LITERARY OPERAS–600–This lord never finished his poem “Don Juan”, but Zdenic Fibig based an opera on it anyway

A

Lord Byron

360
Q

LITERARY OPERAS–800–This Sir Walter Scott poem inspired Rossini’s opera “La Dona Del Lago”

A

‘The Lady of the Lake’

361
Q

LITERARY OPERAS–1000–Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister wrote a 1967 opera based on this author’s “Madame Bovary”

A

Gustauve Flaubert

362
Q

OPERA–200–After his quarrel with W.S. Gilbert, he wrote the 1891 opera “Ivanhoe” without him

A

Arthur Sullivan

363
Q

OPERA–400–This composer’s reputation rests on his first & last full-length operas, “The Pearl Fishers” & “Carmen”

A

Georges Bizet

364
Q

OPERA–600–His “Il Trovatore” contains the “Anvil Chorus”, a favorite of male choirs the world over

A

Giuseppe Verdi

365
Q

OPERA–800–In 1876 he opened an opera house in the Franconian town of Bayreuth

A

Richard Wagner

366
Q

OPERA–1000–This New Zealand soprano appeared as Donna Elvira in Joseph Losey’s film of “Don Giovanni”

A

Kiri Te Kanawa

367
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–He wrote “William Tell” for the Paris Opera

A

Gioacchino Rossini

368
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–The flute plays an important role in this composer’s “Prelude A L’ Apres-Midi D’ Un Faune”

A

Claude Debussy

369
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–The first symphonies of Prokofiev & Rachmaninoff premiered in this city 21 years apart

A

St. Petersburg/Leningrad

370
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–This German composer of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” overture was a child prodigy

A

Felix Mendelssohn

371
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–Death plays a merry dance on the violin in this Frenchman’s “Danse Macabre”

A

Camille Saint-Saens

372
Q

COMPOSERS–0– Jonathan Larson

A

Giacomo Puccini

373
Q

OPERA–200–The role of Scrooge is sung by a baritone in this Thea Musgrave opera

A

‘A Christmas Carol’

374
Q

OPERA–400–This Richard Strauss comic opera is named for Octavian, a young cavalier

A

‘Der Rosenkavalier’

375
Q

OPERA–600–This Mussorgsky opera was first performed at the Met in 1913 with Adamo Didur as Boris

A

‘Boris Godunov’

376
Q

OPERA–800–Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots” deals with the events around this massacre

A

The St. Bartholemew’s Day Massacre

377
Q

OPERA–1400–He wrote both text & music for his 3-act opera “Tristan And Isolde”

A

Richard Wagner

378
Q

COMPOSERS–200–Carl Czerny was just 15 when he began teaching in this Austrian city; Beethoven’s nephew was among his pupils

A

Vienna

379
Q

COMPOSERS–400–Cecile Chaminade wrote more than 200 light salon pieces for this musical instrument

A

Piano

380
Q

COMPOSERS–600–Gunther Schuller is known for mixing classical style with this American music form: way “cool”

A

Jazz

381
Q

COMPOSERS–800–His famous overture “The Hebrides” is also known as “Fingal’s Cave”

A

Felix Mendelssohn

382
Q

COMPOSERS–1000–As a teenager this “Grand Canyon Suite” composer played viola in the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra

A

Ferdi Grofe

383
Q

19TH CENTURY OPERA–200–Karl Goldmark’s opera “The Queen Of Sheba” opens in the palace of this Biblical king

A

Solomon

384
Q

19TH CENTURY OPERA–400–Bellini’s opera “La Sonnambula” is so named because Amina, its heroine, has this nocturnal habit

A

Sleepwalking

385
Q

19TH CENTURY OPERA–600–This Finnish composer’s only opera, “The Maiden In The Tower”, is rarely performed

A

Jean Sibelius

386
Q

19TH CENTURY OPERA–800–A mezzo-soprano plays Violetta’s friend Flora Bervoix in this Verdi opera

A

‘La Traviata’

387
Q

19TH CENTURY OPERA–1000–“Les Troyens A Carthage” was the only part of his long opera “Les Troyens” performed during his lifetime

A

Hector Berlioz

388
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–Johann was his actual first name; Wolfgang was 1 of his middle names

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus) Mozart

389
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–As a teenager, this Israeli violinist made his American debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1958

A

Itzhak Perlman

390
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–This Spanish cellist gave White House recitals for Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 & JFK in 1961

A

Casals

391
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–He produced over 30 operas in London from “Rinaldo” in 1711 to “Deidamia” in 1741

A

Handel

392
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–After this Russian died, his “Prince Igor” opera was completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov

A

Aleksandr Borodin

393
Q

TV COMPOSERS–200–Vic Mizzy played the harpsichord on his theme to this creepy, kooky series

A

The Addams Family

394
Q

OPERA–200–In “Siegfried” Fafner the giant is turned into one of these mythical beasts before Siegfried slays him

A

a dragon

395
Q

OPERA–400–1st name shared by Rigoletto’s daughter, a “Saturday Night Live” star & a R. Hayworth character

A

Gilda

396
Q

TV COMPOSERS–1000–In one quick session Eliot Daniel wrote the theme heard here for the pilot of this show:

A

I Love Lucy

397
Q

TV COMPOSERS–600–His first sci-fi theme was for “Lost in Space”; later he composed for sci-fi films like “Star Wars”

A

John Williams

398
Q

OPERA–3000–Marie, the heroine of this Donizetti opera, was adopted as an infant by French soldiers

A

The Daughter of the Regiment

399
Q

OPERA–800–English composer whose 1947 opera “Albert Herring” is about a young man, not a young fish

A

Benjamin Britten

400
Q

TV COMPOSERS–800–Alexander Courage, composer of the original “Star Trek” theme, didn’t like this producer’s lyrics

A

Gene Roddenberry

401
Q

OPERA–1000–Drops of blood from the ceiling reveal where an outlaw is hiding in this Puccini opera

A

The Girl of the Golden West

402
Q

TV COMPOSERS–1000–While recording his music for the film “Batman”, he took time to write the “Tales From The Crypt” theme

A

Danny Elfman

403
Q

COMPOSERS–400–Joaquin Rodrigo’s best-known work is “Concierto de Aranjuez” for this instrument (Did Hendrix record that?)

A

guitar

404
Q

COMPOSERS–800–His “Moonlight” sonata was dedicated to Giuletta Guicciardi with whom he was romantically involved

A

Beethoven

405
Q

COMPOSERS–1200–Tchaikovsky once referred to this “Lullaby” composer as “giftless” & a “mediocrity”

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Johannes) Brahms

406
Q

COMPOSERS–1600–“William Tell” was the 38th opera that he completed, & he was only 37!

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Gioacchino) Rossini

407
Q

COMPOSERS–2000–He’s the German composer of the famous piece heard here, an invocation to the dawn, not a waltz

A

Richard Strauss

408
Q

COMPOSERS–0–One of this Russian’s best-known works is the fiendishly difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 of 1909

A

Sergei Rachmaninoff

409
Q

OPERA–200–19th century female star Giuditta Grisi created this role in “I Capuleti E I Montecchi”; surprise!

A

Romeo

410
Q

OPERA–400–In Act II of this Bizet opera, Escamillo sings the “Toreador’s Song”

A

‘Carmen’

411
Q

OPERA–3500–Composer who turned Victor Hugo’s play “Le Roi S’Amuse” into “Rigoletto”

A

Giuseppe Verdi

412
Q

OPERA–800–Euridice is a soprano role in Monteverdi’s “The Fable Of” this man who went to hell & back for her

A

Orpheus

413
Q

OPERA–1000–The 1983 premiere of Olivier Megiaen’s “St. Francis of Assisi” was led by this Japanese conductor

A

Seiji Ozawa

414
Q

OPERA–IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!–400–It’s no fairy tale: Elvis Costello wrote & starred in a 2005 opera about this Danish fairy tale author

A

Hans Christian Andersen

415
Q

OPERA–IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!–800–The poetry of this English lord inspired a number of operas, including “Lara” & “The Bride of Abydos”

A

Byron

416
Q

OPERA–IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!–1200–Though this kind of soprano means “half-soprano”, never tell one that she’s only half as good as a coloratura

A

a mezzo-soprano

417
Q

OPERA–IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!–1600–Red Whiskers & Squeak serve aboard ship with this title character, Herman Melville’s sailorboy

A

Billy Budd

418
Q

OPERA–IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!–2000–One of the most popular Christmas operas is Menotti’s classic about this boy “and the Night Visitors”

A

Amahl

419
Q

FUN WITH OPERA–200–Lukas Foss’ opera “The Jumping Frog of” this county is based on a story by Mark Twain

A

Calaveras County

420
Q

FUN WITH OPERA–400–Cavalli’s 17th century opera “Ercole Amante” tells the story of this mythological laborer in love

A

Hercules

421
Q

FUN WITH OPERA–600–We assume Samuel Barber composed his mini-opera about “A Hand of” this game according to Hoyle

A

Bridge

422
Q

FUN WITH OPERA–800–They’re the kind of puppets for which Paul Hindemith wrote his opera “Das Nusch-Nuschi”

A

Marionettes

423
Q

FUN WITH OPERA–1000–The heroine of this Czech composer’s 1901 opera “Rusalka” is a water nymph

A

Antonin Dvorak

424
Q

COMPOSERS–0–An anthem that he composed for George II’s 1727 coronation has been used for British crownings ever since

A

George Frideric Handel

425
Q

ALL ABOUT OPERA–200–In 1989 composer Gian Carlo Menotti directed his own opera about this boy “and the Night Visitors”

A

Amahl

426
Q

ALL ABOUT OPERA–400–This composer of the enchanting ballet “Swan Lake” wrote an opera called “The Enchantress”

A

Tschiakovsky

427
Q

ALL ABOUT OPERA–200–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):”Effervescent” nickname of the opera singer seen here[photo from a 1996 Celebrity Jeopardy! appearance]

A

‘Bubbles’ (Beverly Sills)

428
Q

ALL ABOUT OPERA–800–Be on the alert: “Alerta! Alerta!”, one of his longest bass arias, appears in his opera “Il Trovatore”

A

Giuseppe Verdi

429
Q

ALL ABOUT OPERA–1000–This heroine of a Donizetti opera is the sister of Lord Enrico Ashton of Lammermoor

A

Lucia

430
Q

20th CENTURY OPERA–600–Appropriately, Scottish composer Thea Musgrave wrote an opera about this Scottish queen

A

Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart)

431
Q

OPERA & BALLET–1000–In an 1869 Marius Petipa ballet he puts a metal basin on as a helmet & goes seeking adventure

A

Don Quixote

432
Q

OPERA QUEENS–200–The title character of “Maria Stuarda” is better known in English by this name

A

Mary Stuart

433
Q

OPERA & BALLET–1000–Last name of the gossip in Menotti’s “The Old Maid and the Thief”, it’s the same as a Puccini lieutenant

A

Pinkerton

434
Q

OPERA QUEENS–400–The seductive Queen of Shemakha sings a “Hymn to” this heavenly body in “Le Coq d’Or”

A

the Sun

435
Q

OPERA QUEENS–600–This queen reigned in several operas, including “L’Atlantida” & “Christophe Colomb”

A

Queen Isabella

436
Q

OPERA QUEENS–800–In a Rossini opera, this queen is incensed to find out the Earl of Leicester is secretly married

A

Elizabeth I

437
Q

OPERA QUEENS–1000–The Catholic Marguerite de Valois is a pivotal character in the 1836 opera named for these French Protestants

A

the Huguenots

438
Q

EUROPEAN COMPOSERS–400–His son Carl Philipp Emanuel was famous for his “Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments”

A

Johann Sebastian Bach

439
Q

EUROPEAN COMPOSERS–800–Haydn called this “Magic Flute” composer the greatest composer he knew “either personally or by reputation”

A

Mozart

440
Q

EUROPEAN COMPOSERS–1200–At 17 he composed an overture for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”; he later wrote the “Wedding March” for it

A

Mendelssohn

441
Q

EUROPEAN COMPOSERS–1600–This “Peter and the Wolf” composer wrote the music for the classic film “Alexander Nevsky”

A

Prokofiev

442
Q

EUROPEAN COMPOSERS–2000–In 1838 Paganini sent this “Symphonie Fantastique” composer 20,000 francs to further his career

A

Berlioz

443
Q

OPERA HODEPODGE–100–This composer of the opera “Siegfried” named his only son Siegfried

A

Wagner

444
Q

OPERA HODEPODGE–200–“Il Trittico” – “The Triptych” – is a trilogy of one-act operas by this composer of “Tosca”

A

Giacomo Puccini

445
Q

OPERA HODEPODGE–300–This great Italian tenor made his official debut in 1894, in Naples, his hometown

A

Enrico Caruso

446
Q

OPERA HODEPODGE–400–The witch in this 1893 Humperdinck opera is sometimes played by a man

A

Hansel

447
Q

OPERA HODEPODGE–600–She’s the heroine of the Donizetti opera that features the famous sextet heard here:

A

Lucia di Lammermoor

448
Q

LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–14th century hero in the title of the following

A

William Tell

449
Q

LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–INSERT INTO clue VALUES (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Rioting broke out when this Stravinsky work was first performed in Paris

A

The Rite of Spring

450
Q

LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–It’s the Roman god & planet that Gustav Holst featured here

A

Mars (the bringer of war)

451
Q

LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–You’ll journey to this “hall” in the Grieg work heard here

A

The Hall of the Mountain King

452
Q

LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–This Handel work heard here was composed while he was living in London

A

Water Music

453
Q

OPERA–400–Tenor Leo Slezak covered a staging mistake in “Lohengrin” by ad-libbing, “What time is the next” this graceful bird

A

swan

454
Q

OPERA–800–His new “Tosca” was the toasta Roma in 1900

A

Puccini

455
Q

OPERA–1200–Verdi’s first comic opera was a flop; it was 50 years before he wrote his second, about this Shakespeare character

A

Falstaff

456
Q

OPERA–1600–This Mozart opera opens with the title character on the prowl for Donna Anna

A

Don Giovanni

457
Q

OPERA–2000–Fragments of the “Ode to Joy” appear in the libretto of this 1805 opera, the composer’s only one

A

Fidelio

458
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–200–His “Eroica” symphony was dedicated to his patron Prince Lobkowitz, not Napoleon as first intended

A

Beethoven

459
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–400–1742 oratorio featuring such choruses as “And he shall purify” & “He hath borne our griefs”

A

The Messiah

460
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–600–After writing this 1829 opera, Rossini wrote less than a half dozen more works the last 39 years of his life

A

William Tell

461
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–800–From 1933 to 1935, he served as president of Germany’s Reichmusikkammer, or chamber of state music

A

Richard Strauss

462
Q

CLASSICAL MUSIC–1000–It’s the von Suppe “military” overture heard here

A

The Light Cavalry Overture

463
Q

DON’T BE AFRAID OF OPERA–400–In “The English Cat”, a cat is a president of the R.S.P.R.–The Royal Society for Protection of these rodents

A

rats

464
Q

DON’T BE AFRAID OF OPERA–800–“Le Marchand de Venise” is a 1935 opera based on this play

A

The Merchant of Venice

465
Q

DON’T BE AFRAID OF OPERA–1200–Gaza is the setting for a Biblical opera about Samson and this hussy

A

Delilah

466
Q

DON’T BE AFRAID OF OPERA–4000–Mozart’s opera “The Impressario” starred Caterina Cavalieri, mistress of this alleged Mozart foe

A

INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Antonio) Salieri

467
Q

DON’T BE AFRAID OF OPERA–2000–Perhaps the most “indomitable” of Benjamin Britten’s opera, this 1951 work has an all-male cast

A

Billy Budd

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