Claudio Monteverdi - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

An opera by this composer opens with a toccata before the personification of music delivers a prologue. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this Italian composer of the earliest completely surviving opera, L’Orfeo.

ANSWER: Claudio Monteverdi

[10h] The vocal highlight of L’Orfeo is this aria that includes a call and response with the trumpet in one of its verses. Monteverdi wrote two alternative vocal lines for this aria in which Orpheus tries to convince Charon to ferry him across the Styx.

ANSWER: “Possente spirto”

[10m] Monteverdi’s last opera is set in this civilization and ends with the duet “Pur ti miro, pur ti godo.” The castrato Senesino (“say-nay-ZEE-no”) premiered the role of a ruler of this civilization who sings “Va tacito e nascosto” (“vah TAH-chee-toh ay noss-COAST-oh”) in an opera by Handel.

ANSWER: Ancient Rome [or the Roman Empire] (The operas are L’Incoronazione di Poppea and Giulio Cesare.)

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California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Canada	Main	Y	5	14.00	60%	40%	40%
Florida	Main	Y	12	10.00	58%	42%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	3.33	17%	0%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	7.14	71%	0%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	11.00	40%	50%	20%
North	Main	Y	11	10.91	64%	36%	9%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	9.17	67%	17%	8%
South Central	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	Main	Y	11	10.00	64%	36%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	12.50	63%	50%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	10	10.00	80%	20%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Berkeley D	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley F	Berkeley E	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Stanford B	10	10	10	30
UCLA B	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	0	0	10
UCLA D	UCLA C	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCI	0	10	0	10
Claremont Pitzer	UCSB	10	0	0	10
USC	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	0	10	10
Stanford C	UCSC	10	0	0	10
McMaster C	Carleton	10	0	10	20
McMaster A	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Toronto K	McGill C	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	Queen's B	0	0	10	10
Toronto A	Ottawa	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto D	10	0	0	10
Guelph B	Toronto E	0	0	0	0
Toronto F	Toronto Metropolitan	0	0	10	10
Toronto H	Queen's A	10	0	0	10
McGill B	Toronto I	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Toronto J	0	0	0	0
Guelph A	Toronto C	10	0	0	10
UF E	FSU	0	0	0	0
FIU	UF C	0	0	0	0
UCF A	Melbourne B	0	0	0	0
UCF B	USF	10	10	0	20
UF D	UF B	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	OSU D	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	Kenyon B	0	0	0	0
Kenyon A	CWRU D	0	0	0	0
MSU B	Pitt B	10	0	0	10
OSU A	Pitt A	10	0	0	10
OSU B	MSU A	10	0	0	10
CWRU B	OSU C	10	0	0	10
Tusculum	Clemson B	10	0	0	10
Liberty A	James Madison	10	0	0	10
North Carolina A	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
North Carolina C	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee B	Roanoke	0	0	10	10
George Mason A	Maryland D	0	0	0	0
Penn A	George Mason B	10	0	10	20
Penn B	George Mason C	0	0	10	10
Georgetown B	Catholic University	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins B	George Washington B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown A	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins C	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
NYU B	UMBC A	10	0	0	10
George Washington A	Notre Dame E	0	0	0	0
Maryland C	VCU A	10	0	0	10
Virginia B	Clemson A	0	0	0	0
Liberty C	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
NC State	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	Virginia Tech B	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Lehigh A	0	0	10	10
Princeton A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Lehigh B	Columbia C	0	0	0	0
Swarthmore A	Rutgers C	10	0	0	10
Rowan A	Vassar A	10	0	10	20
Truman State	Missouri B	0	0	0	0
WashU A	William Woods	10	0	10	20
Missouri A	WashU B	10	0	0	10
WashU C	SIUE	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	Kentucky	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame C	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Illinois C	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Michigan A	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Indiana B	Michigan D	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame B	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Purdue C	Notre Dame D	0	0	0	0
Louisville B	Purdue B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame A	UIC	10	0	0	10
Macalester B	Iowa State	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota A	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Amherst B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Orlando	BC A	0	0	10	10
BC B	Brandeis Wilson	0	0	0	0
Brown A	BU	10	0	10	20
MIT A	Brandeis Clemenceau	10	0	10	20
Brown C	Harvard	10	0	0	10
Amherst A	MIT B	10	0	10	20
Tufts A	Bowdoin B	0	0	0	0
Tufts B	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	0	0	10
Williams	Dartmouth	10	0	0	10
Yale A	Cornell-UG	10	0	0	10
British Columbia D	British Columbia A	10	10	0	20
British Columbia C	British Columbia B	10	0	0	10
Simon Fraser	Washington A	0	0	10	10
Washington B	Alberta	10	0	10	20
Melbourne A	UF A	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt A	Auburn A	10	0	10	20
Bruin A	Alabama A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Alabama B	Mississippi State A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Sewanee A	10	0	0	10
Huntsville B	UAB A	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt B	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge B	Birmingham A	0	0	0	0
LSE A	Bristol B	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	Edinburgh A	10	0	0	10
Sheffield A	Cambridge D	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	City St George's A	10	0	0	10
Durham A	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Imperial C	Manchester A	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Sheffield C	10	0	0	10
Durham B	Southampton A	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Oxford B	10	0	10	20
Cornell-DII	Binghamton B	10	0	0	10
RIT A	Syracuse	0	0	10	10
Rochester	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
RIT B	ESF	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Huntsville A	10	0	0	10