Can you name the composers of these famous operas?

Opera	Composer	Year
L'Orfeo		1607
Dido and Aeneas		1683
Rinaldo		1711
Norma		1831
Le Prophète		1849
Faust		1859
The Bartered Bride		1866
Boris Godunov		1874
Die Fledermaus		1874
Carmen		1875
The Pirates of Penzance		1879
Eugene Onegin		1879
Les contes d'Hoffmann		1881

Opera	Composer	Year
Manon		1884
Prince Igor		1890
Pagliacci		1890
Rusalka		1901
Pelléas et Mélisande		1902
The Merry Widow		1905
Bluebeard's Castle		1918
Wozzeck		1925
The Threepenny Opera		1928
Porgy and Bess		1935
War and Peace		1945
The Rake's Progress		1951

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Opera Composers II Quiz

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Created by: davidr -
Published: January 21st, 2009
Category: Music
Plays: 10,503

Tags: Classical Music, Opera Composers, art pack, opera, composer

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	starsaphire:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 04:57 GMT	1 point
	Hurrah, more opera! Thank you Sporcle!

	president_benson:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 05:18 GMT	0 points
	Yeah, I was doing the first one yesterday and was wondering this was going to come along. Got 'em all with 3:51 to go. Hardest ones were, Le Prophète and Manon. Maybe in the the next one we see Britten, Saint-Saens, Glass, Adams & Lully. Thanks DavidR!

	davidr:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 08:28 GMT	0 points
	Thanks for the positive feedback. Kyle, three of the composers you mention appeared in the first quiz. This quiz is already pretty hard and I'm not sure there are enough well-known composers to have a third quiz of twenty-five without repeating some. Not that repeats would necessarily be a bad thing — there are plenty enough operas that the clues would be different, at least.

	davebesag:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:21 GMT	1 point
	Not my subject ;-) Got Bizet and G/S and guessed a Strauss would be there. Also suspected Tchaikovsky would there but can't spell him. Mind you I recoginsed quite a few of the names.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 14:10 GMT	-1 points
	Big fat zero for me. Know nothing about opera.

	Dorak:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 16:38 GMT	4 points
	The display for Penzance should only read "Arthur Sullivan" as Gilbert was the librettist.

	zalagreensbury:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 18:15 GMT	1 point
	Ugh, 8/26 and mind you, I'm an opera fan...ashamed

	beatrix kiddo:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 18:52 GMT	7 points
	cheers davidr - a quiz where i am not only let down by my loack of knowledge, but also by my inability to spell! keep the toughies comining - a challenge is always good. going to play this one again when i've brushed up on a few composers

	Statto2:	Jan 21st, 2009 at 21:52 GMT	2 points
	I got 15 - which I'm very pleased with as there were only 5 that I knew straight off (Carmen, Pirates of Penzance, Porgy & Bess, Threepenny Opera, Bartered Bride).

	RandallPinkston:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 05:39 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for this quiz--sometimes the "specialty" quizzes are the most fun. I do think that the displays should be consistent--I have no problem with both composer and librettist displayed for Penzance, but if you're going to do that then you should credit the librettists of all of the other operas as well.

	davidr:	Jan 22nd, 2009 at 09:44 GMT	0 points
	@Jal D. and Russell: I agree that it's inconsistent to quote the librettist for only one of the operas but the composer and librettist of `Penzance' were such a well-known team that it seems most natural to credit both. This one is the only really well-known librettist.

	Dorak:	Jan 23rd, 2009 at 17:09 GMT	2 points
	davidr: I see your point about their collaboration - out of the context of the quiz they really did work together more closely than other composers/librettists. Thanks for the hard quiz!

	Catherine_F:	Jan 25th, 2009 at 20:01 GMT	-1 points
	How is the most guessed one a bloke I've never heard of? I'm no opera expert but I've heard of at least half the others. (I only got 2 right though.)

	davidr:	Jan 26th, 2009 at 15:27 GMT	1 point
	@Catherine F: He's pretty well known for having composed `Carmen' but everything else he wrote is fairly obscure.

	newniki:	Feb 1st, 2009 at 09:36 GMT	2 points
	Bravo davidr!! I loved this quiz :)

	jen7074:	Sep 2nd, 2009 at 13:24 GMT	2 points
	I have a Master's degree in Music History and these quizzes are my favorite!

	michelplatini:	Sep 4th, 2009 at 21:41 GMT	2 points
	I knew almost everybody, but I didn't know their operas

	anselm:	Sep 30th, 2009 at 15:56 GMT	3 points
	Brilliant quiz ! There's not enough opera on Sporcle - in my humble opinion.

	anAmatuer:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 04:59 GMT	1 point
	If you do make another opera quiz, please put in "Treemonisha" as one of the clues.

	Robert_Seth:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 15:33 GMT	1 point
	can you accept brecht and weill for kurt weill?

	binkster:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 23:43 GMT	1 point
	Dubious as to the definition of "opera" here - personally I think you should put in whatever you want and if people don't know enough stuff to get the answers, that's their problem but, for the record, the works of G&S (particularly) are usually said to be operettas.

	anthraxjohnson:	Jan 8th, 2010 at 16:46 GMT	2 points
	I'm trying hard to come up with enough composers for a 3rd rendition of this quiz: Lully (Armide), Salieri (not sure which), Schoenberg (Moses und Aron), Korngold (Die Tote Stadt), Krenek (Jonny spielt auf), Zimmermann (Die Soldaten), Menotti (The Medium)... That doesn't come close to 25, but with a little work it could be done, I think.

	daHOOK:	May 29th, 2010 at 02:30 GMT	1 point
	Manon, not to be confused with Manon Lescaut, based on the same story. @anthraxjohnson: you could always use Fidelio.

	balatjr:	Dec 14th, 2010 at 16:06 GMT	1 point
	Enjoyed both of the opera quizzes. Yes, you could do a third! Even if there are some repeats. Thanks for doing these.

	zelani:	Mar 19th, 2011 at 22:47 GMT	1 point
	"Stravinski" should be accepted as well. Otherwise, well done!