Can you name the composers of these famous operas?

Opera	Composer	Year
Orfeo ed Euridice		1762
Les Boréades		1770
Don Giovanni		1787
Médée		1797
Fidelio		1805
The Barber of Seville		1816
Der Freischütz		1821
A Life for the Tsar		1836
Don Pasquale		1842
Les Troyens		1858
Das Rheingold		1869
Aida		1871
Lakmé		1883

Opera	Composer	Year
Cavalleria Rusticana		1890
Tosca		1900
Ariadne auf Naxos		1912
The Cunning Little Vixen		1924
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk		1934
Peter Grimes		1945
Dialogues des Carmélites		1957
King Priam		1962
Einstein on the Beach		1976
Nixon in China		1987
Le Grand Macabre		1996
The Last Supper		2000

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Opera Composers Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: October 29th, 2008
Category: Music
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Tags: Famous Quizzes, Classical Music, art pack, opera, composer

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	Laly:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 06:39 GMT	7 points
	I watched Fidelio on Robben Island to celebrate ten years of democracy in South Africa, and it was one of the highlights of my life! Great quiz Davidr...but thanks for putting "kill the wabbit" in my head!

	Trifun Karaevski:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 07:47 GMT	6 points
	No Georges Bizet. Surprise, surprise!

	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 08:47 GMT	5 points
	@Trifun T.: Yeah, Bizet's missing, as are a couple of others. The (admittedly arbitrary) rules I decided to operate under were one opera per decade and trying to stick to each composer's most well-known operas. Maybe I should have ditched Lakmé and replaced Aida with Otello. Anyway, there's always scope for Opera Composers II. :-)

	starsaphire:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 21:14 GMT	2 points
	This is a fantastic quiz; thank you!

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	davidr:	Oct 29th, 2008 at 23:25 GMT	3 points
	La Bohème and Madame Butterfly are both by the same composer as Tosca, which is already in the list. The 1890s slot was a toss-up between Cav and Pag; I went for Cav.

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	pbrown:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 01:46 GMT	3 points
	that was a hard one davidr

	michelplatini:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 21:34 GMT	1 point
	I have to study modern composers!

	anselm:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 15:45 GMT	0 points
	Think this is too easy ? Test your knowledge of Verdi at www.sporcle.com/games/anselm/verdi

	balatjr:	Dec 14th, 2010 at 15:47 GMT	0 points
	Great quiz. Glad there were 20th century composers. But wish there had been more, to include even more composers. You should do opera composers II!

	14111184:	Jan 11th, 2011 at 10:56 GMT	1 point
	Rameau died in 1764!