Q 01/05

How many acts does Carmen have?

A) Three

B) Two

C) Five

D) Four

Answer · why

D) Four

Bizet died after its 33rd performance, never knowing it would become one of the most performed operas in the world.

Q 02/05

Carmen is based on an 1845 novella by which French writer?

A) Prosper Mérimée

B) Alexandre Dumas

C) Gustave Flaubert

D) Victor Hugo

Answer · why

A) Prosper Mérimée

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

Who wrote the libretto of Carmen?

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

D) Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy

The pair were best known as Offenbach's operetta writers; the unmusical one wrote the dialogue and the other the verses.

Q 04/05

In which Spanish city is Carmen set?

A) Granada

B) Madrid

C) Seville

D) Barcelona

Answer · why

C) Seville

Act 1 opens in a square outside a tobacco factory, and act 4 outside the bullring, around the year 1820.

Q 05/05

Where does Carmen work when the opera opens?

A) In a cigarette factory

B) In a lace workshop

C) In a tavern

D) At the bullring

Answer · why

A) In a cigarette factory

She is arrested after attacking another factory girl with a knife.

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