Opera Study Guide

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Carmen 38x $632 avg J:7 DJ:30 FJ:1

J $200 2003 Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera

J $600 2005 Sultry Sevillian cigarette-maker(6)

DJ $1,200 2021 This opera opens at a cigarette factory in Seville & closes outside an arena

Aida 30x 3.8% stumper $712 avg J:1 DJ:25 FJ:4

DJ $200 1996 In this Verdi opera, the king of Ethiopia is a baritone role while the king of Egypt is a bass

DJ $600 1999 This Ethiopian princess was captured by the Egyptians & made a slave to Princess Amneris

DJ $1,200 2008 Amneris, Daughter of Pharaoh, has an Ethiopian slave girl--her

Madame Butterfly 29x $743 avg J:2 DJ:26 FJ:1

DJ $200 1992 This heroine's Japanese name is Cio-Cio-San

J $600 2018 After his arranged wedding to this 15-year-old Japanese girl, naval officer B.F. Pinkerton sails to America

DJ $1,000 DD 2015 (Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The Imperial Commissioner is the one who reads the marriage agreement of Cio-Cio-San & Lieutenant Pinkerton in Act I of this opera

Richard Wagner 28x $686 avg J:5 DJ:23

J $200 1999 The composition of this German's "Ring" cycle spanned over 20 years

J $500 1989 Birgit Nilsson is best known for her heroic roles in this composer's operas

DJ $1,400 DD 1997 He wrote both text & music for his 3-act opera "Tristan And Isolde"

Giuseppe Verdi 22x 18.2% stumper $1,055 avg J:2 DJ:20

DJ $400 1998 This composer's "Rigoletto" is based on Victor Hugo's play "Le Roi S'Amuse" ("The King Amuses Himself")

DJ $600 1988 Some 50 years after he wrote his 1st comic opera, this Italian wrote his 2nd, "Falstaff"

DJ $1,000 1990 Composer whose 1859 opera "Un ballo in maschera" depicts an assassination at a masked ball

I Pagliacci 21x 5.0% stumper $1,100 avg DJ:20 FJ:1

DJ $400 1988 Leoncavallo wasn't clowning around when he wrote this, his 1st produced opera & only hit

DJ $800 1986 There's some clowning around in this opera meaning "the clowns" until people start getting killed

DJ $2,000 DD 1992 The title of this Leoncavallo opera can be translated as "Clowns"

William Tell 20x 5.0% stumper $595 avg J:4 DJ:16

DJ $400 2006 Rossini:"William ____"

J $500 1992 Rossini title character who lives in a chalet beside Lake Lucerne

J $1,000 DD 2024 At age 37, Rossini composed his last opera, this one set in medieval Switzerland

Hansel and Gretel 17x 11.8% stumper $806 avg J:4 DJ:13

J $400 2001 In an 1893 opera, the Sandman puts this young title duo to sleep & the Dew Fairy wakes them up

J $600 2024 In an opera based on a Grimm fairy tale, these 2 children encounter a witch in the forest

DJ $1,800 DD 1996 Angels guard this duo while they sleep in the forest in an 1893 opera

Rigoletto 16x 31.2% stumper $1,188 avg J:1 DJ:15

DJ $600 1998 ["La donna è mobile"]

DJ $1,000 1991 Enrico Caruso made his U.S. debut on November 23, 1903 as the Duke of Mantua in this opera

DJ $600 1992 This hunchback is the Duke of Mantua's court jester

Giacomo Puccini 15x 21.4% stumper $979 avg J:2 DJ:12 FJ:1

J $200 1998 "Il Trittico"--"The Triptych"--is a trilogy of one-act operas by this composer of "Tosca"

DJ $600 1999 Minnie runs a saloon in a California mining camp in this Italian composer's opera "The Girl of the Golden West"

DJ $1,000 1997 This "Turandot" composer's opera "Sister Angelica" is set in a convent & has an all-female cast

Fidelio 14x 21.4% stumper $1,393 avg J:1 DJ:13

J $300 1991 Beethoven completed 4 overtures for this, his only opera

DJ $800 1994 This Beethoven opera is based on one titled "Leonore, or Conjugal Love"

DJ $1,000 1996 Leonore disguises herself as a boy known by this title name in a popular Beethoven opera

W.A. Mozart 14x $550 avg J:2 DJ:12

DJ $200 1996 Sarastro is a priest of Isis in this composer's opera "The Magic Flute"

DJ $800 1995 His opera "Don Giovanni" is subtitled "Il dissoluto punito"—"The Rake Punished"

DJ $1,000 1991 His wife & the heroine of his opera "The Abduction from the Seraglio" were both named Constanze

Figaro 13x 8.3% stumper $400 avg DJ:12 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 The "marriage" of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva's chateau

DJ $800 2024 Susanna, Countess Rosina's maid, is betrothed to this valet of Count Almaviva but, of course, there are complications

FJ 2018 This character's famed entrance aria actually introduces him as a handyman, repeats his name & adds "la-la-la-la-las"

Enrico Caruso 13x 8.3% stumper $658 avg J:4 DJ:8 FJ:1

J $300 1998 This great Italian tenor made his official debut in 1894, in Naples, his hometown

DJ $800 2015 (Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) Oh, what fun--I get to clown around in the actual costume worn by this great tenor in some of his more than 100 performances in "I Pagliacci" here at the Met in the early 20th century

DJ $1,000 DD 1984 Thisaria from "Pagliacci" gave him the first million-selling record ever

The Magic Flute 12x 18.2% stumper $1,273 avg J:1 DJ:10 FJ:1

DJ $400 2025 Mozart's last opera, its "Die Zauberflöte" in German

J $800 2022 In this 1791 opera Tamino is given the title musical instrument to protect him on his journey

DJ $1,000 DD 2011 Mozart's Queen of the Night, a sorceress

La traviata 12x 54.5% stumper $1,473 avg DJ:11 FJ:1

DJ $600 1994 At end of this Verdi opera, Violetta Valery dies in the arms of her lover Alfredo Germont

DJ $1,000 1999 In this opera Violetta bids farewell to the past by singing "Addio del passato"

FJ 1996 This 1853 Verdi opera's debut failed, partly because its star was too stout to be believable as a consumptive

Faust 12x $967 avg J:2 DJ:10

J $200 2012 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The Met archives include wardrobe from the 1890s, including the Mephistopheles costume from this Gounod work

DJ $800 1993 Mephistopheles is a bass role in Berlioz' opera about "The Damnation of" this man

DJ $1,600 2016 The Met opened in 1883 with this devilish Gounod opera based on Goethe's play

The Barber of Seville 11x $1,109 avg J:2 DJ:9

J $200 2003 Figaro is the title character of this 1816 Rossini opera

DJ $600 1996 Figaro's first song in this 19th century opera is the comic aria, "Largo al factotum"

J $1,000 DD 2022 A play by French dramatist Pierre Beaumarchais served as the basis for this Rossini opera set in a Spanish city

Salome 11x 9.1% stumper $945 avg J:2 DJ:9

DJ $200 2001 Herod orders his guards to crush her to death with shields (Maybe she should have stopped at 6 veils...)

J $600 2003 This title character performs the Dance of the Seven Veils for Herod in an opera by Richard Strauss

DJ $1,000 DD 2013 After delivering the head of John the Baptist, Herod orders his guards to crush her to death with their shields

Tosca 10x 87.5% stumper $1,262 avg DJ:8 FJ:2

DJ $800 2000 In a Puccini opera, this prima donna is pursued by the evil Scarpia, chief of the Roman police

DJ $900 DD 1993 Add "nini" to the title of this Puccini opera & you get a famous conductor of Puccini operas

FJ 2012 In 1900 the first La Scala performance of this opera was conducted by the man whose last name began with the opera's title

Lohengrin 10x 37.5% stumper $1,100 avg J:3 DJ:5 FJ:2

J $500 1991 In addition to "Parsifal", Wagner wrote an opera based on this son of Parsifal

J $1,000 2014 This knight reveals that he comes from Montsalvat, where his father, Parzifal, is king of the Holy Grail

FJ 2012 The swan boats in Boston's Public Garden were inspired by this opera in which a swan pulls a boat on the Scheldt River

Falstaff 10x $990 avg J:2 DJ:8

DJ $400 2022 An opera named for this character is based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor"

J $500 2001 In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket

DJ $1,200 2008 In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket

Porgy and Bess 10x $1,244 avg DJ:9 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 Jake sings "A Woman is a Sometime Thing" in the first scene of this Gershwin opera

DJ $800 2012 "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" & "Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way" are arias in the opera about this title couple

DJ $4,000 DD 1988 This 1935 opera's libretto was co-written by DuBose Heyward, who wrote the novel that inspired it

The Marriage of Figaro 9x $1,378 avg J:3 DJ:6

DJ $200 1994 It's the English title of the ever-popular Mozart opera "Le Nozze di Figaro"

J $1,000 2008 Fun abounds as a valet prepares for his own wedding in this 1786 Mozart opera

DJ $400 2024 The title of this Mozart opera promises a wedding & includes the name of the groom

The Bartered Bride 9x 50.0% stumper $1,325 avg DJ:8 FJ:1

DJ $400 1991 A marriage broker named Kecal is outwitted in this Smetana opera

DJ $800 2017 Vasek, a ninny, is the intended groom, but this Smetana title character has other ideas

DJ $1,000 1996 A peasant girl named Marenka is the title character of this Smetana opera

Don Giovanni 9x 12.5% stumper $1,850 avg DJ:8 FJ:1

DJ $400 2025 Early on in a 1787 opera, Leporello, servant to this rake, plays lookout as his master seduces Donna Anna

DJ $800 2020 "Vile intruder who thou art" are the first words directed to this Mozart seducer

DJ $1,200 2008 Donna Elvira is one of the women seduced by the title character of this Mozart opera

Lucia di Lammermoor 8x 37.5% stumper $1,188 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $500 1989 This opera is known for the famous "mad scene" of Lucy Ashton

J $1,000 2022 Donizetti:"Lucia di ____"

DJ $1,000 1994 Name of the castle that's home to Donizetti's "Lucia"

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The Flying Dutchman 7x 42.9% stumper $1,271 avg DJ:7

DJ $400 2005 Act I of this "airborne" Wagner work includes a tenor aria about a sailor returning to his sweetheart

DJ $800 2020 A ship's captain is cursed to sail the seas forever unless he can find a faithful wife in this Wagner opera

DJ $1,100 DD 1995 The German title of this Wagner opera is "Der fliegende Hollander"

Paris 7x $500 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1996 Canadian architect Carlos Ott designed the Opera Bastille, which opened in this city in 1989

DJ $500 DD 1989 "La boheme", an opera about Bohemian artists, takes place in the Bohemian section of this city

DJ $1,200 2016 (Alex reads from the Metropolitan Opera.) Although he was Hungarian, Franz Lehár set his operetta, "The Merry Widow", in this city in 1905; one of the settings is the Art-Nouveau restaurant Maxim's

Amahl and the Night Visitors 7x 50.0% stumper $833 avg DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $200 DD 1993 This Gian Carlo Menotti opera debuted on Christmas Eve, 1951

DJ $600 1985 A Christmas tradition for many years, it was 1st opera specifically written for TV

DJ $1,400 DD 2004 The title characters of this opera are a poor boy, King Kaspar, King Melchior & King Balthazar

Madama Butterfly 7x 33.3% stumper $867 avg DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $400 2023 A house overlooking Nagasaki Harbor is the setting of this opera

DJ $600 1996 Suzuki is the faithful maid of this Puccini title character

DJ $1,000 1998 Puccini opera that features the prelude heard here

Gioachino Rossini 7x 28.6% stumper $1,029 avg DJ:7

DJ $400 2001 In 1829, after his move to Paris, this Italian composer wrote "William Tell"

DJ $600 1988 Though he lived another 39 years, 1829's "Guillaume Tell" was the last opera he would write

DJ $1,200 2010 Count Almaviva is a character in this Italian's "Barber of Seville", first performed in Rome on Feb. 20, 1816

Vienna 6x 16.7% stumper $967 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $200 1988 City in which Strauss set "Die Fledermaus" & "Wiener Blut"

J $600 2017 The Staatsoper, once helmed by Gustav Mahler & Richard Strauss

DJ $1,000 1996 This capital city's Court Opera was renamed Staatsoper in 1918

Turandot 6x 25.0% stumper $1,300 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:2

DJ $600 1990 Of Tosca, Thais or Turandot, the one who doesn't die at the end of her opera

J $1,000 2024 Composer Franco Alfano finished this Asia-set opera after Puccini died

FJ 2012 In a play subtitle, she's called "the Chinese Sphinx"; in a later opera her suitor calls her "Principessa di Morte"

Seville 6x 16.7% stumper $967 avg DJ:6

DJ $200 1993 Massenet's opera "Le Cid" takes place in this city, a good place to find a barber

DJ $800 1986 The action in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" takes place at a chateau near this city

DJ $1,000 1997 Like "Carmen", Prokofiev's opera "The Duenna" takes place in this Spanish city

La Scala 6x $1,050 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $300 1993 This world-famous opera house was named for the wife of Bernabo Visconti, Duke of Milan

DJ $600 1992 At age 24 Renata Tebaldi sang at the post-WWII reopening of this Milan theatre

DJ $1,200 2021 This opera house opened in Milan in 1778 with a performance of "Europa Recognized" by Salieri

Amahl 6x 16.7% stumper $667 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1998 In 1989 composer Gian Carlo Menotti directed his own opera about this boy "and the Night Visitors"

DJ $600 1990 He was the crippled 12-year-old title character in the first opera written for television

DJ $1,200 2007 Menotti:"____ and the Night Visitors"

Richard Strauss 6x 50.0% stumper $1,333 avg J:1 DJ:5

DJ $800 1990 The libretto for his "Salome" was taken from a poem written in French by Oscar Wilde

J $1,000 2004 His "Elektra" in 1908 may have been electric, but it was his "Salome" 3 years earlier that was scandalous

DJ $1,000 1986 Conducting his opera "Salome", this German told orchestra, "Louder! I can still hear the singers"

Georges Bizet 6x $417 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $100 1990 The 1st production of his "Carmen" was a failure & he died before it triumphed

DJ $600 1995 The Friendship duet of Zurga & Nadir is a high point of "The Pearl Fishers" by this composer of "Carmen"

DJ $400 1995 "The Pearl Fishers" was this composer's first major opera; "Carmen" was his last

a barber 6x $283 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1990 Title occupation shared by opera characters "of Baghdad" & "of Seville"

J $200 2009 Title tonsorial job "of Seville"(6)

J $400 2014 It's the title occupation of the baritone heard here

The Girl of the Golden West 6x 66.7% stumper $1,067 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1991 Caruso played Dick Johnson in the world premiere of this opera set in "the Golden West"

J $1,000 2012 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) It's no surprise to see a stagecoach in this opera that Puccini was inspired to write during a visit to the U.S.

J $1,000 2013 Puccini: "La Fanciulla del West"

Orpheus 5x $1,080 avg DJ:5

DJ $800 1997 Euridice is a soprano role in Monteverdi's "The Fable Of" this man who went to hell & back for her

DJ $1,000 1993 Eurydice dances the can-can in Offenbach's operetta about this character "In the Underworld"

DJ $800 1992 The earliest opera that survives, Peri's 1600 "Euridice" tells of Euridice & this husband

oranges 5x 20.0% stumper $480 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1991 Scratch-&-sniff cards with assorted scents enhanced a 1989 production of "The Love for 3" of these fruits

DJ $600 1995 Prokofiev based an opera on Carlo Gozzi's "L'Amore delle tre melarance", the love of three of these

DJ $400 1991 In a Prokofiev opera, three princesses are hidden inside three of these citrus fruits

Lucia 5x 20.0% stumper $920 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 1991 This bride of Lammermoor & her love, Edgardo, wind up dead at the end of the opera

DJ $800 2009 Donizetti's this woman "di Lammermoor" was based on Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor"

DJ $1,000 1998 This heroine of a Donizetti opera is the sister of Lord Enrico Ashton of Lammermoor

Hoffmann 5x $1,080 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $800 2022 Offenbach:"The Tales of ____"

DJ $1,000 1993 In an Offenbach opera, he relates the story of his 3 loves: Olympia, Giulietta & Antonia

DJ $800 1990 His "Tales" begin at the tap room of Luther's Tavern in Nuremberg

Die Fledermaus 5x 80.0% stumper $1,400 avg DJ:5

DJ $1,000 DD 2007 At a costume party Eisenstein dresses up as a butterfly & his friend Dr. Falke goes as a bat in this operetta

DJ $1,000 1990 After learning he'll go to jail, Baron von Eisenstein goes to a Ball in this Strauss operetta

DJ $1,000 1987 In this Strauss work, the role of Prince Orlofsky is almost always sung by a woman

Cinderella 5x $360 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2024 In Rossini's take on this tale, Alex Trebek's favorite opera, not a fairy but the prince's tutor gets the heroine to the ball

DJ $800 2010 In an opera based on a fairy tale, this title girl gives the prince one of a pair of bracelets before leaving the ball

J $200 1991 Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" was based on this fairy tale

"Carmen" 5x $340 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $100 2000 In a jealous rage, a soldier murders the gypsy with whom he's had a passionate affair in this Bizet opera

DJ $600 1996 Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory

DJ $200 1992 This Bizet opera features a gypsy who is stabbed by Don Jose

Tristan and Isolde 5x 20.0% stumper $1,360 avg DJ:5

DJ $1,000 DD 1998 This 1865 opera named for 2 legendary lovers contains the passage heard here

DJ $1,600 2021 "Liebestod" ("Love-Death") is from this Wagner opera about a pair of doomed lovers

DJ $1,600 2008 Inspired by his love for a friend's wife, Wagner composed this opera about a pair of medieval lovers

Engelbert Humperdinck 5x 20.0% stumper $760 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 1986 Writing for another 25 years, he never matched success of his 1st opera, 1893's "Hansel & Gretel"

DJ $800 1996 The Goose-Girl is the heroine of this "Hansel and Gretel" composer's fairy tale opera "The Royal Children"

DJ $1,200 2003 In this German composer's "The Royal Children", a goose-girl gets poisoned by--you guessed it!--a witch!

Cavalleria rusticana 5x 60.0% stumper $1,160 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $400 1989 Though it deals with marital infidelity, this popular opera's name means "rustic chivalry"

DJ $800 1990 Pietro Mascagni said, "It is a pity I wrote" this opera "first. I was crowned before I became king."

DJ $1,000 2000 The name of this short Pietro Mascagni opera translates to "rustic chivalry"

Boris Godunov 5x 60.0% stumper $1,480 avg DJ:5

DJ $600 1996 Bulgarian basso Boris Christoff was renowned for his portrayal of this famous Boris

DJ $1,200 2006 Mussorgsky:"Boris ____"

DJ $800 2025 Condoleezza Rice says the greatest of operas is this one by Mussorgsky; she even named a car she had in grad school Boris

Maria Callas 5x $920 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1990 She was a teenager in the 1930s when she left the U.S., her birthplace, for Greece

DJ $600 1993 This charismatic Greek-American was acclaimed for her 1947 performance as "La Gioconda" in Verona

DJ $2,400 DD 2007 In 1939 she made her operatic debut in "Cavalleria rusticana" in Athens at age 15

Luciano Pavarotti 5x 20.0% stumper $580 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $200 2020 After his U.S. debut with Joan Sutherland in 1965, this bearded Italian tenor hit the high C's as Tonjo in "La fille du régiment"

DJ $600 1997 This hefty superstar tenor from Modena, Italy is often compared to Caruso

DJ $1,600 2020 In 2004 this tenor played 3 final performances in "Tosca" to sold-out crowds at the Met

Queen Elizabeth I 5x 20.0% stumper $560 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2016 (I'm Sondra Radvanovsky.) For the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-16 season, I'm playing all 3 queens in Donizetti's Tudor trilogy: Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart & this 16th century queen

DJ $800 2010 In "Maria Stuarda", this queen signs Mary Stuart's death warrant after being called a bastard

DJ $400 2020 Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" has lots to say to this other British queen, such as "Figlia impura di Bolena"

Spain 4x $325 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1995 The Infante of this country is a leading character in Kreutzer's opera "The Night Camp in Granada"

J $500 1993 Tonadilla is a type of comic opera that developed in this country in the 1700s

DJ $200 1993 The title character of Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" is the infante of this country

Parsifal 4x 100.0% stumper $1,700 avg DJ:4

DJ $1,200 2004 (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Germany.) Paintings in the singers' hall at Neuschwanstein depict this knight who sought the Holy Grail & inspired an opera

DJ $1,600 2002 The first & second Knights of the Grail are roles in this 1882 Wagner opera

DJ $2,000 2025 Wagner wrote this, his final opera, specifically for the Bayreuth Festival & it was only supposed to be performed there

Nixon in China 4x 66.7% stumper $2,667 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $2,000 DD 2020 Henry Kissinger & Mao Tse-tung are characters in this 20th century opera

FJ 2012 This opera begins with Air Force One landing at Beijing

DJ $2,000 2010 Characters in this John Adams opera include Chou En-lai, Chairman Mao & Henry Kissinger

La boheme 4x 25.0% stumper $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 2007 This Puccini opera set in Paris was first produced on February 1, 1896 in Turin with Arturo Toscanini directing

J $800 2003 Musetta has her very own waltz in Act II of this Puccini opera

DJ $800 2002 Much of this Puccini opera takes place in a cafe in Paris' Latin Quarter

Cleopatra 4x $325 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1989 Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare" depicts Caesar's romance with her

J $800 2020 In a Samuel Barber opera, you know that this queen is about to die when a man enters carrying a basket of figs

DJ $200 1999 There's no de"Nile": Masse, Massenet & Mattheson all wrote operas about her

Billy Budd 4x $1,375 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1994 This opera based on a Herman Melville book is set on the H.M.S. Indomitable in 1797

DJ $1,300 DD 1998 In a Melville-inspired opera, this young sailor is hanged from the yardarm of the H.M.S. Indomitable

DJ $1,600 2021 The opera about this alliterative Melville sailor takes place aboard the HMS Indomitable

"Aida" 4x $300 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 2000 Its 1871 premiere in Cairo was delayed due to the Franco-Prussian War

DJ $200 1998 There's no denial: Act III of this Verdi opera is sometimes called "The Nile Scene"

DJ $400 1996 Verdi was paid 150,000 francs to compose this opera for the khedive of Egypt

The Young and the Restless 4x $425 avg J:4

J $200 2013 Take me down to Genoa City, where the grass is green & the girls are pretty on this show, 40 years "young" in 2013

J $1,000 2010 Tom Selleck was Jed Andrews on this Genoa City-set CBS soap where Victor & Nikki found romance

J $100 1987 CBS' new "The Bold & The Beautiful" is a sort of spin-off from this soap

Tchaikovsky 4x 50.0% stumper $800 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1998 This composer of the enchanting ballet "Swan Lake" wrote an opera called "The Enchantress"

DJ $800 2008 Tchekalinsky, Tomsky & Prince Yeletsky are roles in "The Queen of Spades" by this composeretsky

DJ $1,000 1990 The 1st of his operas heard outside of Russia was "The Maid of Orleans", staged in Prague in 1882

Prince Igor 4x 25.0% stumper $1,100 avg DJ:4

DJ $800 1996 In a Borodin opera, this title prince has a wife named Yaroslavna

DJ $2,000 2014 Despite his wife's pleas not to do so, this prince attacks the Polovtsi, a Tartar tribe, & is promptly captured

DJ $800 1992 In a Borodin opera, this title prince is captured by the Polovtsians

Joan of Arc 4x $350 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 2001 This famous martyr is the heroine of many operas, including "The Maid of Orleans"

DJ $800 2016 Tchaikovsky composed an opera about her based on Schiller's drama "Die Jungfrau von Orleans"

DJ $200 1993 The Russian title of Tchaikovsky's opera about this saint is "Orleanskaya Deva"

Isolde 4x 25.0% stumper $875 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 1996 In an 1865 opera by Richard Wagner, Tristan is a tenor role & this heroine is a soprano

J $500 2000 The discovery of Tristan's affair with this woman, his uncle's wife, leads to the lovers' deaths

DJ $2,000 2011 Kurwenal, a servant accompanying his knight & master to pick up a new bride

the prima donna 4x 25.0% stumper $300 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2010 This term for the principal female singer of an opera company is Italian for "first lady"

J $500 2001 From dealing with Betsy, I know why this 2-word Italian term can mean a diva or a real pain

J $100 1991 18th c. operas usually had 6 main characters; the lead man was the primo uomo, the lead woman, this

Charles Dickens 4x 25.0% stumper $500 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1997 Zandonai's opera "Il Grillo del Focolare" is adapted from this author's "The Cricket on the Hearth"

DJ $1,200 2007 This "Cricket on the Hearth" author wrote the libretto for John Hullah's "The Village Coquettes"

DJ $200 1994 "The Village Coquettes" has a libretto by this British novelist; what a "Twist"

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Victor Hugo 3 Venice 3 Tristan 3 the Valkyries 3 The Merry Widow 3 the "Anvil Chorus" 3 Rimsky-Korsakov 3 Otello 3 Norma 3 Mimi 3 Milan 3 Mephistopheles 3 Maurice Ravel 3 Marionettes 3 Marian Anderson 3 Lucrezia Borgia 3 John the Baptist 3 Italy 3 Ireland 3 Il Trovatore 3 Hans Christian Andersen 3 gold 3 General Hospital 3 Eugene Onegin 3 Der Rosenkavalier 3 Delilah 3 Brunhilde 3 Benjamin Britten 3 Beethoven 3 Bedrich Smetana 3 Bayreuth 3 West 3 Sergei Prokofiev 3 Rudolf Bing 3 Romeo & Juliet 3 New York City 3 Lincoln Center 3 G.F. Handel 3 Eugene O'Neill 3 Das Rheingold 3 Arturo Toscanini 3 War and Peace 2 Twelfth Night 2 Thomas Hardy 2 the witch 2 The Tales of Hoffmann 2 the Sydney Opera House 2 the seraglio 2 The Ring of the Nibelung 2 the Rhine 2 The Mikado 2 the Met 2 the Arabian Nights 2 Sydney 2 sleepwalking 2 Siegfried 2 Scotland 2 Samson 2 Rome 2 Rodolfo 2 Queen Isabella 2 Porgy 2 Ovid 2 Othello 2 opera buffa 2 Nixon 2 New Zealand 2 Magic 2 Macbeth 2 Kurt Weill 2 King Arthur 2 Jenny Lind 2 Japan 2 Hungary 2 H.M.S. PInafore 2 Gian Carlo Menotti 2 Gertrude Stein 2 Eurydice 2 Einstein 2 Egypt 2 Edvard Grieg 2 Dynasty 2 Don Quixote 2 Don Juan 2 Covent Garden 2 bass 2 Baritone 2 Babylon 2 Ariadne 2 Antonin Dvorak 2 All My Children 2 Achilles 2 Aaron Copland 2 A Streetcar Named Desire 2 a ring 2 A Midsummer Night's Dream 2 "Rigoletto" 2 "Madame Butterfly" 2 "Fidelio" 2 "Faust" 2 "Cinderella" 2 the witches 2 The Threepenny Opera 2 the recitative 2 The Metropolitan Opera 2 Sir Arthur Sullivan 2 Jean Sibelius 2 Queen of Sheba 2 Lieutenant Pinkerton 2 Gotterdammerung 2 George Gershwin 2

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