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 CornellfallY412.50100%25%0%
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%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY412.50100%25%0%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY518.00100%60%20%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY514.00100%20%20%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY812.50100%25%0%

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