American Opera
The premier opera venue in NYC
The Met
In this opera by Mussorgsky this character rises to power as the czar of Russia
Boris Godunov
This person wrote Salomé in 1905
Richard Strauss
The country in which opera originated
Composer of Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, and A Quiet Place
Leonard Bernstein
Shostakovich's last opera
Lady Macbeth
The libretto was based on a play written by this person
Oscar Wilde
The literal meaning of "opera" in Italian
Work
Composer of Dr. Atomic
John Adams
The Composer of the opera War and Peace
Sergei Prokofiev
This city had the first performance of Salomé
Dresden
The age that Mozart was when he wrote his first opera
12
George Gershwin's jazz influenced opera
Porgy and Bess
This opera tells the story of a dashing, but jaded gentleman
Eugene Onegin
The controversial scene where Salomé performs a dance for her stepfather
Dance of the Seven Veils
This person is known as the last castrato
Alessandro Moreschi
1950's americana opera about a girl coming of age on a Midwest farm
Tenderland
This opera is an allegory for the oppression of the Soviet Union, by Alfred Schnittke
Life with an Idiot
These chords combine to make the most sickening chord in opera
A7 and C#
This person set the world record for receiving the longest applause in an opera
Plácido Domingo