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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2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY711.43100%14%0%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY130.00100%100%100%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY810.00100%0%0%
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2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY812.50100%25%0%

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South Carolina AAuburn A010010
South Carolina AAuburn A010010
South Carolina AAuburn A010010
South Carolina AAuburn A010010
South Carolina AAuburn A010010
South Carolina AAuburn A010010
South Carolina AAuburn A010010
South Carolina AAuburn A010010
SouthernAuburn B010010
Auburn CMississippi State A010010
Clemson AGeorgia Tech B010010
Tennessee BEmory Oxford010010
Vanderbilt AGeorgia Tech D010010