Post Quiz: What Are They Singing About?

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Post Quiz: What Are They Singing About?

Are you a culture vulture? Match these operas to their plot synopses.

  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.
  • La Traviata
  • Les Mamelles de Tirésias
  • The Cunning Little Vixen
  • Mittwoch aus Licht
  • Lily of Killarney
  • Fidelio
  • Ali Baba
  • The Golden Cockerel
  • Dialogues des carmelites
  • Windstorm in Bubbleland
Slide trombones through a window
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