1. Henri Duparc's L'Invitation au Voyage is a setting of which poet?

   1. Charles Baudelaire

   2. François Coppée

   3. Stéphane Mallarmé

   4. Paul Verlaine

2. 

   How many women did Don Giovanni seduce in Turkey?

   1. 640

   2. 231

   3. 91

   4. 1003

3. Which historical figure, depicted in Tannhäuser, was the author of the poem that Wagner eventually took as the source for Parsifal?

   1. Heinrich der Schreiber

   2. Reinmar von Zweter

   3. Walther von der Vogelweide

   4. Wolfram von Eschenbach

4. In 2016, New York’s Metropolitan Opera staged Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin. When was the last time an opera by a woman was produced on the New York stage?

   1. 2003, Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway

   2. 1903, Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald

   3. Never – L'Amour de Loin was the first time an opera by a woman was staged at the Met

   4. 1947, Amy Beach's Cabildo

5. Which of Strauss's Four Last Songs does not have a text by Hermann Hesse?

   1. Frühling

   2. September

   3. Beim Schlafengehen

   4. Im Abendrot

6. Which composer wrote an overture for Alexander Ostrovsky's play The Storm?

   1. Stravinsky

   2. Tchaikovsky

   3. Vivaldi

   4. Janáček

7. 

   In Mozart's Così fan tutte, what does Despina use to cure Guglielmo and Ferrando of supposed arsenic poisoning?

   1. Coffee

   2. A magnet

   3. An emetic

   4. Sal volatile

8. In his Memoirs, Berlioz describes 'breaking down utterly' when he read the works of a writer, who 'first kindled my smouldering imagination'? Which writer is he referring to?

   1. Shakespeare

   2. Virgil

   3. Jane Austen

   4. Chaucer

9. 

   Where was the first performance of Britten's The Turn of the Screw in September 1954?

   1. Sadler's Wells, London

   2. Teatro La Fenice, Venice

   3. Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh

   4. Tanglewood festival, Massachusetts

10. To which of his song cycles does Mahler refer in his Second, Third and Fourth symphonies?

    1. Kindertotenlieder

    2. Des Knaben Wunderhorn

    3. Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

    4. Rückert-Lieder

11. Which of Stravinsky's stage works has a libretto by Jean Cocteau?

    1. The Fairy's Kiss

    2. Perséphone

    3. Oedipus Rex

    4. The Rake's Progress

12. 

    In Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, what does the page boy Mohammed retrieve from the inn just before the curtain falls?

    1. The silver rose

    2. Baron Ochs's wig

    3. Octavian's sword

    4. Sophie's handkerchief

Solutions

1:A, 2:C - As Leporello tells it in the Catalogue Aria: in Italy – 640; in Germany – 231; in France – 100; in Turkey – 91 and in Spain – 1003. Image: Don Giovanni at English National Opera, 2016; photo by Tristram Kenton/The Guardian, 3:D, 4:B, 5:D - The text is by Joseph von Eichendorff, 6:B - Although The Storm also forms the basis of Janáček's opera Katya Kabanova, 7:B - Image: English Touring Opera’s February 2020 production of Così fan tutte; photo by Richard Hubert Smith, 8:B, 9:B - Image: The Turn of the Screw at Opera North, 2020, 10:B - They are commonly known as the Wunderhorn symphonies, 11:C, 12:D - Image: Der Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne, 2018; photo by Robert Workman

Scores

1. 12 and above.

   Bringing the house down

2. 10 and above.

   Bringing the house down

3. 9 and above.

   Bringing the house down

4. 8 and above.

   A great ensemble player

5. 7 and above.

   A great ensemble player

6. 6 and above.

   A great ensemble player

7. 5 and above.

   A great ensemble player

8. 4 and above.

   A few intonation problems

9. 3 and above.

   A few intonation problems

10. 2 and above.

    A few intonation problems

11. 1 and above.

    A few intonation problems

12. 0 and above.

    A few intonation problems