Quiz about Classical music, only for the connoisseur!

Quiz about Classical music, only for the connoisseur!

Question 1 of 10

What famous music from Wagner's Die Walkure is actually playing before the curtains even go up?

Question 2 of 10

Yo ho to oh If it's over because the fat lady has sung, you may be watching whose Der Ring des Nibelungen, in which an obese Valkyrie named Brunhilde ends the opera by singing for 20 minutes straight?

Question 3 of 10

F Scott Fitzgerald had a cat named for this Polish composer, who in turn supposedly wrote Waltz #4 in F Major after a cat walked across his piano keys. Who?

Question 4 of 10

Although the Vatican forbade anyone from transcribing Gregorio Allegri's Miserere or performing it outside the Sistine Chapel, what young composer wrote it out from memory after listening to it twice?

Question 5 of 10

Arseny Avraamov's Symphony of Sirens involves car horns, factory sirens, cannons, machine guns and the foghorns of what country's entire flotilla in the Caspian Sea?

Question 6 of 10

What composer became a hero to Italy's Risorgimento movement in the 1850s, in part because his name was a royalist acronym?

Question 7 of 10

With a libretto created by some 900 people, 140 characters at a time, an opera based on what web site debuted at London's Royal Opera House in 2009?

Question 8 of 10

Hitler personally intervened to save one Jew, namely what composer's daughter-in-law Alice?

Question 9 of 10

Although it didn't star Meryl Streep, what William Styron book did Nicholas Maw adapt as an opera for London's Covent Garden?

Question 10 of 10

Baritone Lawrence Harris performed Scarpia in Tosca and the title role in Rigoletto. What had he done for a living before that?

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