This kind of opera made its way to Russia in 1730s
What is Italian opera?
100
Like his predecessors, Puccini worked closely with this publisher.
What is Casa Ricordi?
100
Strauss had been known for these orchestral works before writing successful opera. Ein Heldenleben is an example.
What is a tone poem?
100
this event left a last impact on Europe in the first decades of 20th century.
What is World War I (1914-1918)
100
Puccini used this US state as an exotic backdrop for "Girl of the Golden West."
What is California?
200
This playwright, the Shakespeare of Russia, had many of his plays turned into operas.
What is Pushkin?
200
Puccini's operas show some influence of this trend, which began in Italian literature
What is verismo?
200
Strauss collaborated with this Viennese playwright for 23 years.
What is Hugo von Hofmannsthal
200
This invention helped spread the enjoyment of opera.
What is the phonograph/victrola?
200
The Metropolitan Opera presented this composer's opera Der Wald in 1903. The Met staged its next opera written by a female composer in 2016
What is Ethel Smyth?
300
Some Russian composers favored this symmetrical scale
What is the octatonic scale?
300
Though her identity is lost, this opera by Puccini about a young Japanese girl is closer to a true story than many realized.
What is Madama Butterfly?
300
This opera with its femme fatale was a scandalous success.
What is Salome?
300
This opera star made his fortune in the US, with help from the Victor Talking Machine Co.
What is Enrico Caruso?
300
This conductor passionately hated Fascism, though he briefly supported it. He ardently spoke against it on his symphonic tours.
What is Arturo Toscanini?
400
The members of the Mighty Five (Mighty Handful)
What is Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Balakiriev, and Cui.
400
Puccini died while working on this opera. Several composers, such as Berio, have offered their own endings
What is Turandot?
400
This opera features allusions to Vienna in the mid-1700s.
What is Der Rosenkavalier?
400
Name three musician or composers who served in WWI
What is Ralph Vaughn Williams, Ethel Smyth, Maurice Ravel, Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, George Butterworth, Gustav Holst
400
This dictator loved German music and gave funding to a special government department to promote the best music of Germany.
What is Hitler?
500
This composer didn't belong to the Mighty Five, but left his mark on Russian ballet and opera.
What is Tchaikovsky?
500
This pair of librettists helped Puccini with some of his most famous operas.
What is Giacosa and Illica?
500
This dancer created a widely popular one-woman dance show based on the Salome craze. Conservative members of Parliament later humiliated her.
What is Maud Allen?
500
This term best describe the musical language of Alban Berg's Wozzeck.
What is atonal?
500
Describe two impacts that WWI had on opera
What is bleaker content, cynical, atonal and serial language, smaller ensembles, loss of many composers/musicians, cultural nationalism (purging foreign elements)