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Opera Etiquette
Opera Vocabulary 1
Opera Vocabulary 2
Then & Now of Opera 1
Then & Now of Opera 2
100
To show respect for the cast, musicians, and the production team during their last rehearsal, this shouldn't be done by the audience during the performance.
What is talk?
100
A dance spectacle set to music
What is a ballet?
100
A group of musicians who play together on various musical instruments
What is an orchestra?
100
Earliest modern opera began in in a place known now as this country.
What is Italy.
100
in 1776, this event fostered rebellions, class struggles, and democracies, influencing a change in the themes and characters in opera.
What is the American Revolution?
200
This is one of the times when it is appropriate to use the bathroom.
What is before the performance, during the intermission, or after the performance?
200
A solo song sung in an opera
What is an aria?
200
A main section of a play or opera
What is an act?
200
When opera was first performed, the audience comprised this societal group before it became popular for the general public.
What is the Italian nobility?
200
During the 1800s, this operatic movement, translated as "beautiful singing", fostered popular works by composers including Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini.
What is "bel canto"?
300
After an aria, either of these words can be shouted to congratulate the singer - one for a male singer or one for a female singer.
What is "Bravo" (for a male singer) or "Brava" (for a female singer?
300
Music composed for a group of singers or the name of a group of singers in an opera
What is chorus?
300
Segments of action within the acts of an opera
What are scenes?
300
This group of men, during the Renaissance, created a new theatrical performance based on the dramas of the ancient Greeks.
What is What is the Florentine Camerata?
300
During the Romantic period of opera, this composer created The Ring of Nibelung, a German opera that takes more than 15 hours to perform.
Who is Richard Wagner?
400
These must be turned off before the rehearsal begins.
What is all electronic devices/cellphones?
400
A song performed by two singers
What is a duet?
400
A booklet that contains information about the opera, composer, performers, the opera company, and includes advertisements
What is a program?
400
During this period, between 1600 -1750, Italian opera spread throughout Europe, even by German composers like Handel.
What is the Baroque?
400
During the Romantic period of opera, when composers focused on nationalistic themes, the American composers, George and Ira Gershwin, created this opera, which included jazz and blues style music.
What is Porgy and Bess?
500
These are three (of several) actions that are not allowed in the theater.
What are: *no eating food; * no drinking beverages; *no taking photos or recordings; *no talking, whispering, whistling, yelling, or singing during the opera; *no throwing objects?
500
A piece of instrumental music played a the beginning of an opera
What is an overture?
500
Words that are sung in the rhythm of natural speech - a bit like the 18th century version of rap
What is recitative?
500
More emotional music depicting societal changes and a growing middle class entered opera during the 18th century, know as this artistic time period.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
500
This is a title of one of the most recently composed operas of this decade
What is: *Silent Night; *Charlie Parker's Yardbird, *Cold Mountain?