Question
In this composer’s 1638 “Lament of the Nymph,” outer sections for men’s trio surround a middle section for a solo soprano singing “at the tempo of her emotion.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer whose operatic setting of the Ariadne myth is lost, except for a five-voice lament in which the title character asks to die. His best-known opera begins with a brass “toccata.”
ANSWER: Claudio Monteverdi [or Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi] (The opera is L’Orfeo.)
[10e] Monteverdi spent his last 30 years in this present-day city, where opera theaters and season tickets were invented for shows that coincided with its masked Carnival.
ANSWER: Venice [or Venezia]
[10h] At least three Monteverdi libretti were written by Giulio, the adoptive father of this Venetian singer and composer of the aria “Che si può fare” (“KAY see pwoh FAH-ray”) and the cantata “Lagrime mie” (“LAH-gree-may MEE-yay”).
ANSWER: Barbara Strozzi [or Barbara Valle]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 13.75 | 75% | 42% | 21% |
Data
| Cornell B | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago C | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ottawa | Duke | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkeley A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vanderbilt | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Iowa State | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northwestern | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Illinois | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | NYU | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| North Carolina A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| South Carolina | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers | Penn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |