Can Jeopardy Pick Another Hyper fixation?

From Story to Stage

100

A "monster" opera based on this Mary Shelley novel premiered in 1990

Frankenstein

200

If you play the role of Jemmy in the opera "William Tell", you'll get one of these shot off your head. 

an apple

300

This 1893 opera based on a children's tale is set partly in the woods of Ilsenstein 

Hansel and Gretel

400

Peter Cornelius's opera "The Barber of Baghdad" was based on a tale in this collection

Arabian Nights

500

Stinney: An American Execution is an opera based on a novel inspired by a real crime of passion committed in this southern state

Charleston, South Carolina

Composers

100

Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Phantom of the Opera are all separately famous; but the scores were all made by this British composer 

Andrew Lloyd Webber

200

Though he wrote a number of operas, Michael Haydn is far less famous than his older brother

Joseph Haydn

300

in 1976 this founder of the Opera Company of Boston became the first woman to conduct at the Met

Sarah Caldwell

400

his opera "Nabucco", which premiered in 1842, made him famous in Italy

Giuseppe Verdi

500

His "William Tell" was to have been the first of 5 operas for the Paris Opera, but his contract was set aside.

G. Rossini

Opera Names

100

This famous ballet is most commonly attended in December, as it was the month it was first performed, too.

The Nutcracker

200

If you see "Puck, "The Fairies", or "The Fairy Queen", you're watching an opera based on this

A Midsummer Night's Dream

300

Cosi Fan Tutte is a comic opera by Mozart that is sometimes translated to this four word phrase.

So Do They All

400

The title of this Puccini opera deals with a painter (Marcello), a poet (Rodolfo), and a philosopher (Colline)-- It's also the title of a Rent song

La Boheme

500

"The Libertine Punished" is part of the full title of this Mozart Opera

Don Giovanni

Sing it High, Sing it Low

100

Too low to be an tenor, too high to be a bass will make you this middle octave

baritone

200

While many believe that high octave parts can only be sung by women; many men can train their vocal ranges to reach this alternative named soprano

Falsetto

300

In order to portray this French peasant girl who was the subject of Tchaikovsky's "The Maid of Orleans", you need to be able to sing in either soprano or mezzo-soprano

Joan of Arc

400

Swiss composer Ernest Bloch's only completed opera is based on this play; the role of Banquo is sung by a tenor

Macbeth

500

You have to be a baritone to play Cortez in Roger Sessions' opera about this emperor of the Aztecs

Montezuma

I Auditioned for this, but instead I got

100

If you want the part of this title character, you better bust out your silks and getting practicing her major theatrical "Dance of the Seven Veils" 

Salome

200

I was so excited to get the role of Canio in this Italian Opera, come to find out I have to dress as a clown every night. What?!

Pagliacci

300

Auditions for Verdi's "Aida" are coming up. I do hope I get this high priest of Egypt character

Ramfis

400

While it's my dream to play this title character, an Irish Princess betrothed to the King of Cornwall, I ended up being Tristan; with whom she has an affair. 

Isolde

500

for this opera, I auditioned to be Kingsor, the sorcerer; but ended up with the role of Amfortas, the keeper of the grail

Parsifal