Female leads
This female lead dies of tuberculosis in the final scene of this opera.
Who is Violetta?
This Mozart opera is based on masonic ideas and morals.
What is the Magic Flute?
A set of 4 operas based on the Nibelungenlied.
What is the Ring Cycle?
Stravinsky based this opera on a set of paintings.
What is The Rake's Progress?
Soprano with epic blackface and no COVID restrictions moments!!
This female lead is stabbed by her ex-lover at the end of the opera.
Who is Carmen?
This librettist wrote Cosi, Don Giovanni, and Nozze.
Who is Lorenzo Da Ponte?
This opera, the final one by Verdi, is also his only comic opera.
What is Falstaff?
A set of three biographical operas by Philip Glass.
What is the Portrait Trilogy?
This Greek soprano was one of the most influential singers of the 20th century.
Who is Maria Callas?
This female lead kills a policeman and then jumps to her death.
Who is Tosca?
This opera is about the life of a king of Crete.
What is Idomeno?
This work, based on an unfinished play, is regarded as the first atonal opera.
What is Wozzeck?
Schoenberg's final, unfinished opera.
What is Moses und Aron?
This trained opera singer is the sister of a famous right-wing political pundit.
Who is Abby Shapiro?
This heroine leaves her lover in the third act due to a drug addiction, who then ends the opera by setting off to find her.
Who is Bess?
Mozart completed this many operas in his lifetime.
What is 18?
Generally recognized as the first opera.
What is Peri's Dafne?
note: Euridice is the first surviving opera.
Strauss's final opera, written in 1942.
What is Capriccio?
This Finnish composer has written three operas, her first being L'amour de Loin.
Who is Kaija Saariaho?
This heroine disobeys her father's orders, and ends an opera by self-immolating and giving control over Earth to mortal man.
Who is Brünnhilde?
Mozart's first opera, "Apollo et Hyacinthus," was written in this language.
What is Latin?
The first Italian opera for the English stage.
What is Handel's Rinaldo?
Ligeti's only opera.
What is Le Grand Macabre?
What is Cold Mountain?