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Answer the Following Questions on a piece of notebook paper! The first one to turn in all of the answers gets bonus!

A lot of these links are outdated! If you find links to answers, email them to Mrs. Hughes! bhughes@basd.org

1. What is a libretto? http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571461/Libretto.html 2. What is an Aria? http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761572880/Aria.html 3. Who wrote the music for - //Daphne// - in 1597 the first opera? Where was it performed? http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab36 4. Orfeo ed Eurydice was the first opera of the reform in 1762, who wrote it? Where was it performed? http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab36 5. What is the longest opera? How long is it? http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/operafaq/f/ofaq7.htm 6. What is the most performed opera? http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/operafaq/f/ofaq6.htm 7. Merry Melodies did a spoof called //What's Opera Doc// - What opera composer were they spoofing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_Opera,_Doc%3F#Wagner.27s_music 8. Merry Melodies also craeted an opera spoof called - The Rabbit of Seville - what is the name of the opera were they spoofing? What role does Bugs Bunny play? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042871/plotsummary see a clip at http://video.yahoo.com/watch/42703/964406 9. This female composer is a Pennsylvania native who wrote an adaptation of //As You LIke it//: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,858915,00.html 10. What are the four main voice parts? http://thecathedralchoir.org.uk/thecathedralchoir/voice_parts.htm 11. In Bizet's opera //Carmen// what voice part is Carmen? Also are there voices in the Prelude? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen 12. What is a mezzo-soprano? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo-soprano 13. What are the three exceptional operas written by W.A. Mozart? http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761554446/Mozart.html 14. What is an operetta? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operetta 15. This operetta was the only one that Gilbert and Sullivan premiered in New York? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_penzance 16. What is the shortest opera? http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/operafaq/f/ofaq8.htm 17. Why do some historians believe that Mozart was poisoned? http://www.operagifts.com/opera_facts.php 18. What is the next opera to be performed by the Toledo Opera? When will it be performed? http://www.toledoopera.org/ 19. What is the next opera to be performed by the Pittsburgh Opera? When will it be performed? http://www.pittsburghopera.org/ 20. What opera started the idea that opera singers wear horned viking hats? http://www.operagifts.com/opera_facts.php#viking

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