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Post Quiz: What Are They Singing About? Answers

Learn about these operas. Go around humming them. True art leads to discovery. People will go from thinking you're really weird to knowing you're really weird.

  1. Assassination by rooster.
  2. Loud singing by terminal patient.
  3. Unconvincing cross-dressing leading to massive prison reform.
  4. Three words: Helicopter.String.Quartet. (Angels are involved.)
  5. Marriage by woodpecker.
  6. Guillotining of nuns by sans-culottes.
  7. Irishman mistaken for otter and shot.
  8. Hummingbird newcasts and magical knitting.
  9. Criminals mistaken for coffee beans and roasted.
  10. Miracle birth of 40,049 infants in one day…by a man.
  1. The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky-Korsakov)
  2. La Traviata (Verdi)
  3. Fidelio (Beethoven)
  4. Mittwoch aus Licht (Stockhausen. You don't believe there's a Helicopter String Quartet? You asked for it.)
  5. The Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek)
  6. Dialogues des carmelites (Poulenc)
  7. Lily of Killarney (Benedict/Boucicault)
  8. Windstorm in Bubbleland (Fred Rogers, yes, that Fred Rogers)
  9. Ali Baba (Cherubini)
  10. Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Poulenc, again)
Slide trombones through a window
Ho-yo-to-ho.
Ho. Ho.
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