The section of the stage that is farthest from the audience
What is upstage or backstage?
100
In this year, on January 26th, the Academy of Music was opened as Philadelphia's first opera house.
What is 1857?
100
This is the highest female voice and is typically the female protagonist.
What is soprano?
100
A drama or comedy in which music is the essential factor; very little is spoken
What is opera?
100
A composition written for two performers
What is a duet?
200
Stage Right appears to be on this side of the theater according to the audience.
What is the left side of the stage.
200
This opera, composed by Guiseppe Verdi, was the first opera performed in the Academy of Music.
What is Il trovatore?
200
This is the lowest female voice, often sung by characters like grandmothers, noble witches or goddesses.
What is contralto?
200
Male voice between bass and tenor
What is baritone?
200
Music composed for a singing group
What is chorus?
300
Stage Left appears to be on this side of the theater according to the performers.
What is the left side of the stage?
300
This was a Victorian symbol for "welcome".
What is the pineapple?
300
This is the highest male voice that combines a chest voice with a "falsetto" head voice.
What is countertenor?
300
Dramatic text adapted for opera
What is libretto?
300
A large group of people playing various musical instruments, including stringed and wind instruments
What is an orchestra?
400
This is the arch or frame that separates a stage from the auditorium.
What is the proscenium?
400
Muses of these four arts are depicted in the ceiling murals above the chandelier.
What are poetry, dance, music, and theater?
400
The male protagonist in opera, usually the hero of the story, is typically sung in this voice.
What is tenor?
400
Another term for comic opera
What is Opera Buffa?
400
Four terms describing the pitches of male operatic voices from highest to lowest
What are counter tenor, tenor, baritone, and bass?
500
The bas-relief of this composer is at the top of the proscenium in the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
500
One of the four special events (noted in the Student Guide) that took place in the Academy of Music
What is: *the Republican National Convention in 1872 (when Ulysses Grant was nominated for his second term as President; *the Philadelphia Orchestra established its home in the Academy in 1900; *the music for Disney's Fantasia was recorded; *singer Marian Anderson made her first appearance in 1929?
500
The lowest male voice that often conveys wisdom or nobility
What is bass?
500
The term describing the realistic or naturalistic school of opera that flourished briefly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; libretti were chosen to depict a "slice of life"
What is verismo?
500
A term to describe an opera with dramatic or intense plots