Insane Opera Plots
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.
Beheading
A Greek word meaning two-legged, this is what a triangle that has two equal sides is called.
Isoceles
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Carmen
The Thing, Mr. Fantastic, Human Torch, and Invisible Woman co-write Vivaldi's most famous concerto.
The Fantastic Four Seasons
I'm not throwing away my shot, I'm just like my country, I'm ___
young, scrappy and hungry
(Hamilton, "My Shot)
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.
A fire
This punctuation is used to indicate the factorial of an integer.
Exclamation point (!)
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Tosca
An ABBA song recorded in honor of the U.K.'s longest-reigning monarch.
Dancing Queen Elizabeth
Mamma mia, here I go again, My, my, ___
how can I resist you?
(Mamma Mia!, "Mamma Mia")
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.
Nose
This is the only number that, when spelled out, has the same number of letters as its meaning.
Four
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Don Giovanni
A casino card game also known as Twenty-one is the star of 'Nacho Libre' and 'Kung Fu Panda'.
Blackjack Black
As someone told me lately, "Everyone deserves ___"
a chance to fly
(Wicked, "Defying Gravity")
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.
Otter
These are the first six digits behind the decimal point of pi.
141592
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Madama Butterfly
A CBS sitcom with Neil Patrick Harris is a 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winning nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
How I Met Your Mother Theresa
pity any girl who isn't me tonight (West Side Story, "I Feel Pretty")
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.
Helicopter
This unit of time is equal to 1/100 of a second.
Jiffy
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Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle)
A Shakespearean tragedy about the premiere sandwich offered by an eatery known for its golden arches.
Big Macbeth
Ya got trouble, Right here in River city! With a capital "T", and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for ___.
pool
(The Music Man, "Ya Got Trouble")