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What the Gluck?
Comic Opera
Mozart
Mozart 2: Moz-arter
Miscellany
100
This opera by Gluck first put his ideas about opera reform into practice
What is Orfeo ed Euridice? (1762)
100
Known as opera buffa in Italy, or opera comique in France
What is comic opera?
100
Mozart often collaborated with this librettist
What is Lorenzo da Ponte?
100
This maid-servant is perhaps the real hero of Le Nozze di Figaro
What is Susana?
100
This German comic opera genre featured spoken dialogue instead of recitative
What is singspiel?
200
The "Querelle des Bouffons" centered around this debate.
What is Italian musical style versus French musical style?
200
Italian theater tradition that featured stock characters
What is commedia dell'arte?
200
These three operas comprise Mozart's Italian trilogy
What is Cosi fan tutti, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Don Giovanni
200
This character is a popular "pants-role" for mezzo-sopranos.
What is Cherubino?
200
Germany/Austria and France loved Gluck's Orfeo. This country, not so much.
What is Italy?
300
Gluck librettist who helped craft text that would serve the music.
What is Ranieri de Calzabigi?
300
A shorter aria without the ornamented repeats
What is a cavatina?
300
The woman who had the greatest influence over Mozart.
What is his wife, Constanze?
300
He wrote the libretto for Magic Flute, as well as sang and helped produce it. He died young from being overworked.
What is Emanuel Schikaneder?
300
This group spread throughout Europe in the 1720s. They loved symbolism, ritual, and the number three
What is freemasonry?
400
The plots of Gluck's operas are all drawn from this source.
What is Greek myth?
400
This commedia dell'arte character became popular once again in the early 20th century
What is Pierrot?
400
Leporello and Figaro are both examples of which voice type?
What is basso buffo?
400
This opera premiered to rave reviews in Prague. Audiences in Vienna thought it was okay.
What is Don Giovanni?
400
This is the music that returns at the end of Don Giovanni
What is the "stone guest" theme from the opera's overture?
500
The complaints that the French had against Italian opera
What is plots too dull, nothing but recitative and aria, castrati, highly ornamented singing, no ballet.
500
Besides cunning servants and lustful masters, opera buffa had these multi-faceted characters.
What is mixed character (both serious and comic)
500
This soprano served as inspiration for Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi fan tutti
What is Adriana Ferrarese del Bene?
500
This man wrote the controversial play that Le Nozze di Figaro is based on.
What is Beaumarchais?
500
This works featured two arias; one has some of the highest passages in opera, one has the lowest.
What is the Magic Flute?