Question
This opera’s B major overture, whose opening three bars Mendelssohn deemed “worth more than our entire repertoire,” reuses its second theme from the composer’s earlier opera Medée. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this late Classical opera in which Mikeli smuggles Armand to Gonesse in a water barrel. This opera’s “rescue” plot may have inspired Beethoven’s Fidelio, whose sketches include a transcription of this opera’s trio “O mon libérateur.”
ANSWER: Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau [or The Two Days, or The Water Carrier]
[10m] Les deux journées is by this predecessor of grand opera and composer of Lodoïska. This Italo-French composer wrote a Requiem in C minor late in his career.
ANSWER: Luigi Cherubini [or Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini]
[10e] Cherubini’s early opera Eliza was set in this country. The appearance of one of this country’s traditional ranz de vaches (“rahnz duh vash”) in that opera is mirrored by a similar ranz de vaches in a Rossini opera set in this country, William Tell.
ANSWER: Switzerland [or Swiss Confederation or Confederation Suisse or Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft or Confederazione Svizzera or Confederaziun Svizra]
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| 1.g4 Test Mixture | The Aum-Wein Drinchard by Amogh Tutuola | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |