Q 01/05
A) Three
B) Two
C) Five
D) Four
Answer · why
Bizet died after its 33rd performance, never knowing it would become one of the most performed operas in the world.
Q 02/05
A) Prosper Mérimée
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Victor Hugo
Answer · why
He claimed the tale came from the Countess of Montijo, mother of the future Empress Eugénie, during his 1830 travels in Spain.
Q 03/05
A) Arrigo Boito and Francesco Piave
B) Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
C) Eugène Scribe and Ludovic Halévy
D) Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Answer · why
The pair were best known as Offenbach's operetta writers; the unmusical one wrote the dialogue and the other the verses.
Q 04/05
A) Granada
B) Madrid
C) Seville
D) Barcelona
Answer · why
Act 1 opens in a square outside a tobacco factory, and act 4 outside the bullring, around the year 1820.
Q 05/05
A) In a cigarette factory
B) In a lace workshop
C) In a tavern
D) At the bullring
Answer · why
She is arrested after attacking another factory girl with a knife.
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