Insane Opera Plots
Shostakovich once wrote an opera about this body part, which is cut off by a barber and thrown in a river. This same body part later grows to the size of a full human and leads its owner on a full-blown police chase in the opera's final moments.
What is a nose?
This is the common name for a female horse.
What is a mare?
This faculty member, to the shock of many, is actually registered with the U.S. Republican Party.
Who is Dr. Jeremy Dewayne Joneson?
A Greek word meaning two-legged, this is what a triangle that has two equal sides is called.
What is isoceles?
This quaver possesses 25% of the rhythmic value of an eighth note.
What is a thirty-second note?
Puccini's "Turandot" features a princess who gets to ask all of her suitors three riddles. If any of them answer one incorrectly, this form of death sentence awaits them.
What is a beheading?
This Disney princess was the owner of a horse named Major.
Who is Cinderella?
Before becoming Director Emeritus for the organization, this professor served as the Director of the Schmidt Vocal Competition for seven years.
Who is Smenjamin Bolder?
This punctuation is used to indicate the factorial of an integer.
What is an exclamation point?
In the diatonic scale, the label "mediant" is given to this scale degree.
What is 3?
In "Il trovatore", Verdi reminds us to always check that you have the correct baby before you toss it in ___. Otherwise, you will be forced to raise the child as your own before the opera's villain kills you and his own long-lost brother.
What is a fire?
This country has the highest horse population on our planet.
What is the United States?
This faculty member has students questioning their potential status as a member of British nobility.
Who is Dame Christina Haan?
This is the only number that, when spelled out, has the same number of letters as its meaning.
What is four?
This is the name given to a musical passage that gives the sonic impression of duple meter, but is notated in triple.
What is a hemiola?
In Julius Benedict's "Lily of Killarney", one of the main characters, Danny, meets an untimely end thanks to his obvious resemblance to this aquatic mammal.
What is an otter?
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Because of a lack of cones in the retinae, horses are unable to see this color.
What is red?
Oddly enough, this professor earned their degree in biological sciences from the University of Connecticut.
Who is the #1 Swiftie Sam Reenan?
These are the first 6 digits of pi.
What is 3.14159?
This musical key is considered "theoretical", as it is impossible to notate.
What is Gb minor?
An opera also featuring live Bactrian camels of all things, Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Mittwoch Aus Licht" is most notable for infamously housing a string quartet section inside one of these vehicles of transportation.
What is a helicopter?
This horse won the Triple Crown in the year 1973.
Who is Secretariat?
In 2011, this faculty member released their debut recording of original music, titled "First Impression".
Who is King Christopher Tanner?
This unit of time is equal to 1/100 of a second.
What is a jiffy?
You may know of the German, French, and Italian augmented 6th chords. But this much lesser-known augmented 6th chord takes the French, and flats scale degree 1.
What is the Australian augmented 6th?