More trivia for opera buffs! See if you can guess the opera by the clue provided. Press the "?" to see if you're right.
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The setting for this opera is a Turkish harem but is sung in German. |
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Too much wine, some provocative dancing and a promise made in public made someone lose his head. |
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The intrigues to acquire a golden bird form the plot of this opera. |
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A greedy dwarf, some crafty water women and two rather slow-witted giants fight over jewelry. |
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A woman successfully disguises herself as a man in an attempt to free her husband from prison but, in the process, becomes engaged to the warden's daughter. |
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If only Floyd from "The Andy Griffith Show" had done business in this Spanish town, he could have been the one singing "Largo Al Factotum". |
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The principal character of this Russian opera was no relation to Rocky and Bullwinkle's nemesis. |
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This French composer's only opera was his impression of a Maeterlinck play. |
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The conflicts between a famous Babylonian king and an enslaved people are examined. |
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This opera's Viennese premiere was in a vaudeville house and features talking birds and a Queen of the Night. |
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