The lovers Horace and Angèle sing the duet “Parlez! parlez! quel destin est le notre” (“par-LAY par-LAY kel day-STAN ay luh NOH-truh”) during one of these events in Madrid in Daniel Auber’s (“oh-BAYR’s”) opera Le Domino Noir. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this type of event. At the end of a different “opéra historique” by Auber, Amélie sings “Here is my last present” during one of these events, shortly before her husband kills the protagonist.
ANSWER: masked balls [or masques or masquerades; prompt on balls]
[10m] The masked ball in Auber’s Gustave III sometimes includes audience participation in one of these dances. When Jupiter’s minuet is rejected, one of these fast dances occurs on the banks of the River Styx in a later French opera.
ANSWER: galop [accept infernal galop or galop infernal; reject “can-can”]
[10e] After La muette de Portici, Gustave III was Auber’s second venture in this French operatic genre named for its extravagant length and spectacle, and whose other composers included Giacomo Meyerbeer.
ANSWER: grand opera
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