Question
Peter Sellars filled the stage with televisions in his 1992 Salzburg Festival staging of this composer’s opera Saint François d’Assise. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this French composer of Quartet for the End of Time.
ANSWER: Olivier Messiaen [or Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen]
[10e] Sellars’ staging of Saint François d’Assise features an angel wearing a gray business suit portrayed by Dawn Upshaw, a singer of this highest standard vocal range that makes up the S in an SATB choir.
ANSWER: soprano
[10h] Viewing Sellars’ staging of Saint François d’Assise inspired this Finnish composer who died in 2023 to compose L’amour de loin, which in 2016 became only the second opera by a woman to be staged at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
ANSWER: Kaija Saariaho [or Kaija Anneli Saariaho or Kaija Laakkonen]
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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 100% | 14% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 8 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Data
Tennessee A | Alabama A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina A | Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina A | Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina A | Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina A | Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina A | Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina A | Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina A | Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
South Carolina A | Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Southern | Auburn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Auburn C | Mississippi State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Clemson A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tennessee B | Emory Oxford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |