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4th ESO - UNIT 5: LET THE OPERA BEGIN!
4th ESO - UNIT 5: LET THE OPERA BEGIN!
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UNIT 5: OPERA - 4th ESO
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1
What is the name of the space reserved for the musicians, situated below the stage?
Audience
Chorus
Set
Pit
2
The Camerata Fiorentina decided to emulate:
the Baroque musicians
the Romantic musicians
the Middle Ages musicians
the Greek classics
3
The Camerata Fiorentina decided to emulate the Greek classics.
True
False
4
What is the Camerata Fiorentina?
Poets, musicians & singers met to discuss music and art
Group of musicians who played music together
5
Which city was the centre of Europe during the Classicism in music?
Fiorence
Vienna
Rome
Venice
6
What is an Aria?
An orchestral piece that precedes the action.
A piece sung by 1 or more soloist & accompanied by orchestra
7
What is the name of the high range female voice?
Mezzo-soprano
Tenor
Soprano
Bass
8
What is the name of the low range male voice?
Soprano
Bass
Tenor
Contralto
9
What is the name of the orchestral piece that precedes the action or start of each act?
Recitative
Aria
Chorus
Overture
10
What is the
bel canto
?
Space reserved for the musicians and singers from a platform
Form of singing of opera singers with large vocal capacity
11
For many years, italian was the universal language of opera
False
True
12
The Camerata Fiorentina was the origin of the:
Suites
Sonatas
Concertos
Operas
13
German operas composed during 19th century were centred around:
comique topics
medieval or mythological topics
14
Theatrical representations of stories have been present in our world since:
Romantic period
Classical Antiquity
Renaissance
Middle Ages
15
Enrico Caruso was an important...
Italian composer
Italian singer
16
What is the name of the medium range female voice?
Mezzo-soprano
Baritone
Tenor
Soprano
17
Which composer was important because he reformed opera: putting music at the service of text?
Bach
Verdi
Gluck
Mozart
18
Who is the composer of the opera Rigoletto?
Mozart
Verdi
19
Who was the german composer of the opera
Lohengrin?
Wagner
Verdi
Vivaldi
Mozart
20
Which were some of Verdi most famous works?
La traviata, Il trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida, Othello.
La traviata, Don Juan, Il trovatore, Rigoletto, Aida.
21
What's the name of the theatrical text, where composer writes what each character should sing?
orchestra
opera
libretto
leitmotif
22
Bel canto
is a vocal style characteristic of Italian opera in the 19th century.
False
True
23
"The queen of the night" is an Aria from the opera:
The Marriage of Figaro
The magic flute
Don Juan
Don Giovanni
24
What is the name of the person who directs the musicians and singers from a platform?
The composer
The director
25
Which opera of Verdi was based on Alexander Dumas
The lady of the Camellies?
Rigoletto
La traviata
26
Italian opera in the 19th century was characterised by:
opera seria, opera comique and use of bel canto
opera comique
bel canto
opera seria and opera comique
27
Richard Strauss is considered one of the last romantic opera composers.
True
False
28
What is the name of this Italian singer?
Luciano Pavarotti
Plácido Domingo
29
What is the name of the spectators that follow along in the libretto form their seats?
Director
Pit
Set
Audience
30
What is the name of the common song in specific parts of the opera where all characters unite?
Chorus
Aria
Recitative
Overture
31
Who is the librettist?
Person who writes the texts for opera.
Person who reads and chooses the opera to play.
32
The opera
Valkyrie
was composed by...
Verdi
Strauss
Vivaldi
Wagner
33
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a composer from the
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Baroque
Classicism
34
Which is the musical form that consists on a dramatic and musical art where actors sing?
Sonata
Tocata
Opera
Cantata
35
Name in music of the period between the 2nd half of the 18th & 1st quarter of the 19th century?
The Renaissance
The Classical period
The Baroque period
The Middle Ages
36
Salome
is one of the operas composed by....
Vivaldi
Verdi
Schoenberg
Strauss
37
Who was the composer of the opera
The marriage of Figaro?
Haydn
Bach
Mozart
Gluck
38
Fascination for theatrical performances influenced the ancient Greeks and Romans to build...
cinemas
theatres
39
What is the name of the low range female voice?
Contralto
Tenor
Bass
Soprano
40
The plot in the first operas revolved around gods and heroes of Classical antiquity
False
True
41
What is the name of the medium range male voice?
Tenor
Baritone
Soprano
Mezzo-soprano
42
Who was the composer who created a new musical system based on the use of 12 different notes?
Strauss
Schoenberg
43
In the beginning, opera was reserved for the high court or nobility.
False
True
44
Who was the composer who incorporated the leitmotif?
Wagner
Mozart
Haydn
Verdi
45
What is the Music Drama?
A kind of an opera seria
A total art form that combined music, drama,staging & ballet
46
Which is the opera characterised by dramatic topics inspired by mythology, history & powerful?
Opera seria
Opera comique
47
What is the name of the fragment between the arias where singers recite the text.
Chorus
Aria
Recitative
Overture
48
Which is the name given to operas composed by Richard Wagner?
Music dramas
Wagnerian opera
49
Which is usually considered as the first opera in history?
La favola d'Orfeo
La Traviata
50
The technique used to define a character or situation with a melody is called?
Opereta
Leitmotif
51
What is the name of the musical movement emerged in the middle of the 19th century in Europe?
Baroque
Classicism
Nationalism
Romanticism
52
What is the name of this Spanish singer?
Montserrat Caballé
María Callas
53
Which kind of characters were used in German operas during 19th century?
fantastical characters, heroes and gods
mythological characters
54
What is the name of the high range male voice?
Mezzo-soprano
Soprano
Bass
Tenor
55
When were the atriums in temples used for singing theatrical representations?
In the Middle Ages
In the Renaissance
56
The opera spread rapidly throughout all of America
False
True
57
Who is the composer of the opera
La favola d'Orfeo?
Antonio Vivaldi
Claudio Monteverdi
58
Which is the opera based on an entangled plot where topics were simple, based on daily life?
Opera comique
Opera seria
