WorksheetsCH 44-45, Verdi & Wagner/Opera
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
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
