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