“Va, pensiero” - 2024 ACF Winter at Online

Question

This operatic chorus’s association with the Risorgimento comes from a debunked myth about how the Nationalist audience demanded an encore of it at its premiere. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this chorus from Verdi’s Nabucco in which an oppressed people yearn for their “beautiful and lost” homeland.

ANSWER: “Va, pensiero” [accept the “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves”]

[10h] A revolutionary spirit pervades this middle-period Verdi opera in which Elena sings “Mercé, dilette amiche (“ah-MEE-kay”)” before her marriage to Arrigo. The title conflict of this opera provides a background in which Arrigo learns that Montforte is his father.

ANSWER: The Sicilian Vespers [or I vespri siciliani; or Les vêpres siciliennes]

[10e] Verdi’s patriotism and love for his homeland bleeds through in this Ethiopian princess, who realizes she will never see her homeland again in the aria “O patria mia” while waiting for the Egyptian warrior Radamès.

ANSWER: Aida

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	6	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


Texas A	Colorado College	0	0	10	10
Missouri	Mississippi State	10	0	10	20