Question

Dmitri Hvorostovsky starred in a 2001 film adaptation of this opera titled “[this opera] Unmasked.” An orchestra in this opera plays quotations from the earlier operas Una cosa rara and Fra i due litiganti while the title character takes huge mouthfuls of food. An aria in this opera opens with an [read slowly] A, A, B, C-sharp, A, F-sharp, up to B during which the protagonist asks a peasant girl to marry him. That aria from this opera, (*) “Là ci darem la mano,” (10[2]-5[1])is addressed to Zerlina. (10[1])In another (10[1])aria in this opera, a servant sings of (10[1])“marchionesses, princesses, (-5[1])and women of every rank” seduced by the title character. For 10 points, the title libertine is dragged to hell by (10[1])the Commendatore (10[1])in which opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Don Giovanni [or Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni; or The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Robert CondronChicago APurdue B8210
Dennis ReppenChicago BOhio State B82-5
Stan MelkumianPurdue ASIUE B8210
Giifti BentiSIUE AMichigan B8610
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTLMichigan A8810
Braden BoothMissouriChicago C9610
Shourjo GanguliOhio State APurdue C98-5
Rohan NavaneethaOhio State BChicago B11910
Jacob GoodsonOhio State CChicago D12110
Davis JohnsonPurdue COhio State A1290

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2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y475%25%50%98.33
2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y1100%100%0%49.00
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y888%0%25%96.29