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Operas
YGK These Operas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Ethiopian princess held captive in Egypt who dies alongside Radamès in a tomb | Aida |
| The high priest in Aida who catches Radamès attempting to flee with the title character | Ramphis |
| The Bizet opera based on a novel by Prosper Mérimée about a gypsy working in a cigarette factory | Carmen |
| The corporal who joins a group of smugglers before eventually stabbing Carmen at a bullfight | Don José |
| The character who sings the "Toreador Song" in the opera Carmen | Escamillo |
| The Mozart opera based on a Beaumarchais comedy featuring the servants Susanna and Figaro | The Marriage of Figaro |
| The older woman in The Marriage of Figaro who initially wants to wed Figaro due to an old contract | Marcellina |
| The Rossini prequel to The Marriage of Figaro in which Count Almaviva woos Rosina | The Barber of Seville |
| The three disguises Count Almaviva uses to penetrate Dr. Bartolo's house in The Barber of Seville | Lindoro (poor student), a drunken soldier, and a music teacher |
| The Swiss patriot forced by Gessler to shoot an apple off his son’s head | William Tell |
| The 1787 Mozart opera featuring a "Catalogue Aria" and a statue that drags the protagonist to hell | Don Giovanni |
| The servant of Don Giovanni who recounts his master's 2,000-odd conquests | Leporello |
| The Richard Strauss opera based on an Oscar Wilde play about King Herod's step-daughter | Salome |
| The dance Salome performs for Herod in exchange for "anything she wants" | Dance of the Seven Veils |
| The prisoner whose head is demanded by Salome on a silver platter | Jokanaan (John the Baptist) |
| The Mussorgsky opera about an adviser to Ivan the Terrible who assumes the throne | Boris Godunov |
| The religious novice in Boris Godunov who impersonates the murdered tsarevich Dmitri | Grigori |
| The Puccini opera about four poor "bohemians" living in the Latin Quarter of Paris | La bohème |
| The seamstress in La bohème who falls in love with Rodolfo and dies of consumption | Mimì |
| The American naval lieutenant in Madama Butterfly who weds Cio-Cio-San in Nagasaki | Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton |
| The name Cio-Cio-San gives to her son, which she intends to change to "Joy" upon Pinkerton's return | Trouble |
| The Japanese city where the action of Madama Butterfly takes place | Nagasaki |
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