CH 44-45, Verdi & Wagner/Opera

What nineteenth-century opera singer made a great impression in America by performing both opera excerpts and parlor songs?

• Jenny Lind

• Giuseppina Strepponi

• Gaetano Donizetti

• Vincenzo Bellini

Italian comic opera is called

• Opera seria

• Opera buffa

• Reform opera

• Opera comique

Who were two of the most popular Italian Romantic opera composers?

• Verdi

• Rossini

• Wagner

• Rigoletto

The librettist for Verdi’s Rigoletto was

• Gioachino Rossini

• Victor Hugo

• Richard Wagner

• William Shakespeare

Who dies at the end of Rigoletto?

• Rigoletto

• The Duke

• Gilda

• Maddalena

Wagner called his operas

• Plays

• Musicals

• Music dramas

• Singspiel

The librettist for Wagner’s music dramas was

• Victor Hugo

• William Shakespeare

• Himself

• Carl Maria von Weber

The principal themes in Wagner’s operas, which recur throughout and carry specific meanings, are called

• Gesamtkunstwerk

• Leitmotifs

• Melodrama

• Motives

Wagner’s total artwork, in which all the arts—music, poetry, drama, visual spectacle—are fused together, is called

• Singspiel

• Gesamtkunstwerk

• Leitmotifs

• Melodrama

In the Ring cycle, who is the father of the gods?

• Wotan

• Thor

• Siegmund

• Zeus