Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (76 results returned)
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | BALLET & OPERA $400: Gertrude Stein fêted Teresa of Avila & others, working with Virgil Thomson on the opera titled "Four" of these "in Three Acts" saints |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | BALLET & OPERA $800: Not only do the Snow King & Queen turn up in this popular ballet, the Mouse King also makes an appearance The Nutcracker |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: This Virgil work inspired the opera "Les Troyens" by Hector Berlioz The Aeneid |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: "The Fallen Woman" in Italian, this opera centers on the courtesan Violetta La traviata |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | BALLET & OPERA $7,000 (Daily Double): This German composed "Ritterballett", or "Knight's Ballet", while he was still living in Bonn Beethoven |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $400: In 2015 Misty Copeland took flight in the dual role of Odette & Odile in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $800: Tobias Picker composed a ballet & an opera based on this Oliver Sacks book about patients with a mysterious sleeping sickness Awakenings |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: Called the first great American opera, it premiered in 1935 with Todd Duncan & Anne Wiggins Brown in the lead roles Porgy and Bess |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: This Balanchine ballet fittingly features parts called "Emeralds", "Rubies" & "Diamonds" Jewels |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): In this 1787 opera, a famous seducer is said to have had 1,003 lovers in Spain alone Don Giovanni |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $400: Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora Sleeping Beauty |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $800: In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada Baryshnikov |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1200: It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023 X |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1600: In Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", the title king & this queen spend quality music time with their 6 kids Nefertiti |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $2000: A word for a slender woman sometimes followed by "like", or an air-dwelling being that Scotland is full of, per a classic ballet a sylph |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $400: Ballet dancers in the preparatory position called "bras bas" hold these down low, as its French name says arms |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $800: Amneris in "Aida" is usually sung in this hyphenated vocal range, middle of the pack for women mezzo-soprano |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $1200: Meaning "great" in Russian, this ballet company survived the Russian Revolution, World Wars & the Soviet breakup the Bolshoi |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $2000: The opposite of legato, it's the term for the short, clipped articulation employed by opera singers staccato |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | INSIDE BALLET & OPERA $3,200 (Daily Double): This 8-letter piece of music comes before an opera & contains themes of the entire piece an overture |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $200 (Daily Double): The fate of these lovers from Shakespeare is no better in the ballet with music by Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $300: The Sugar Plum Fairy is a character in this ballet that's a favorite at Christmas The Nutcracker |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $600: According to the title of a Rossini opera, Figaro! Figaro! Figaro! is this professional "of Seville" the barber |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: The 2021 nonfiction book "Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy" is by this prima ballerina Misty Copeland |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BALLET & OPERA $1500: The last opera this genius composed was "The Magic Flute" Mozart |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $800: Siegfried threatens at least 2 characters with a crossbow in this ballet... what a bird brain! Swan Lake |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: Tonio the clown introduces this opera; at the end, the audience is told that the comedy is over Pagliacci |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: An opera with hitmen? I'm in! This Verdi title jester wants revenge on the Duke of Mantua & hires Sparafucile to kill him Rigoletto |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: Early in Act 2 in an Adolphe Adam classic ballet, Hilarion mourns at the grave of this title woman Giselle |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $5,000 (Daily Double): M-m-m-my Verona! On February 9, 1965 Nureyev & Fonteyn danced this ever-doomed couple in London Romeo & Juliet |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $400: British choreographer Matthew Bourne took a different tactic when restaging this Tchaikovsky ballet Swan Lake |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $800: This Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s Madame Butterfly |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: Pat Garrett is a character in the ballet named for this outlaw Billy the Kid |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $1600: Ramfis is the high priest in this opera Aida |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: The 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet are "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrifice" The Rite of Spring |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $400: This 1818 novel has been adapted as a ballet with an experimentalist named Victor & the discovery of galvanism Frankenstein |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $800: Wagner wrote an opera about this pair of legendary lovers, King Mark's nephew & King Mark's intended bride Tristan and Isolde |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: A courtesan named Violetta is the title fallen woman of this Verdi opera La Traviata |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): You'll find the Queen of Night in this, Mozart's last opera The Magic Flute |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: This title girl from an Adolphe Adam ballet dies in the first act & must dance for a ghost queen in the second Giselle |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $400: On Feb. 1, 1896 this tragic Puccini opera with Rodolfo & Mimi was first performed at Turin's Teatro Regio La Boheme |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $800: If you Lakmé, you really Lakmé, you sing the aria known as "The Bell Song" in this vocal range soprano |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: The cowgirl & the champion roper are roles in this ballet with music by Aaron Copland Rodeo |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $1600: Naturally, there's dance music in this Italian's 1859 opera "Un Ballo in Maschera", "A Masked Ball" Verdi |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: In the 1930s, the Baby Ballerinas Baranova, Toumanova & Riabouchinska were the first stars of this company de Monte Carlo the Ballet Russe |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $5 (Daily Double): In a ballet Odette's mother's tears produced this body of water Swan Lake |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $400: "The Dream" is a one-act ballet that uses Felix Mendelssohn's music & is based on this Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $800: The title character of this Rossini opera regularly shaves Dr. Bartolo The Barber of Seville |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $1200: Part of the "Ring" cycle, "Gotterdammerung" has this title in English The Twilight of the Gods |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: A love story of the American Southwest, the ballet "Rodeo" has music composed by this New Yorker Aaron Copland |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $400: "Le Sacre du printemps" is the French title of this Stravinsky ballet that premiered in Paris in 1913 The Rite of Spring |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $800: The libretto for a ballet about this title gladiator was based in part on works by Plutarch Spartacus |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: At the end of a Mozart opera, this title character is dragged into the flames of hell Don Giovanni |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: At the end of this Verdi opera, Violetta dies of consumption in the arms of Alfredo La traviata |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: In a classic ballet by Adolphe Adam, she's the title peasant girl with a weak heart & a passion for dancing Giselle |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS $400: In "The Nutcracker ", this fairy rules the kingdom of the sweets the Sugar Plum Fairy |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS $800: Wotan's favorite daughter in "Die Walkure", her battle cry is "Ho-yo-to-ho" Brünnhilde |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS $1200: The heroine of a Beethoven opera disguises herself as this title boy in order to rescue her imprisoned husband Fidelio |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | OPERA & BALLET CHARACTERS $1600: In return for its freedom, it gives prince Ivan a brilliant red feather; he only need wave it & it will come to his aid the Firebird |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $400: Nutty about "The Nutcracker"? You've probably seen it during this month (that's the month it was first performed, too) December |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $800: Warning: If you play the role of Jemmy in the opera "William Tell", you'll get one of these shot off your head an apple |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $1200: Haydn wrote several operas for these stringed toys, but someone must be hidin' them; most of them are lost puppets (or marionettes) |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: Odile & Prince Sigfried are the deux-o who dance the Black Swan pas de deux in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #4627, aired 2004-10-19 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: In an opera based on history, the pharaoh Akhenaten gives up polygamy for this beautiful queen Nefertiti |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $200: Choreographer Frederick Ashton played one of the ugly stepsisters when this ballet debuted in 1948 Cinderella |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $400: Though a tenor now, Placido Domingo began singing in this vocal range below tenor Baritone |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $600: This composer of "The Nutcracker" said, "The music of a ballet is not invariably bad" Tchaikovsky |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $800: A governess fears that her charges are communicating with ghosts in an opera based on this Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | OPERA & BALLET $1000: The ballet "Les Sylphides" is danced to music by this Polish-French composer Frederic Chopin |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | OPERA & BALLET $1,000 (Daily Double): In an 1869 Marius Petipa ballet he puts a metal basin on as a helmet & goes seeking adventure Don Quixote |
| #3233, aired 1998-09-30 | OPERA & BALLET $1000: Last name of the gossip in Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief", it's the same as a Puccini lieutenant Pinkerton |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $200: In 1926 the Chicago Opera Co. presented Charles Cadman's "The Witch Of" this Massachusetts town Salem |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $400: In Alban Berg's unfinished opera "Lulu", Lulu is slain by this notorious London killer Jack the Ripper |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $600: He presented his operas "Alcina", "Ariodante" & "Atalanta" at the Covent Garden Theater, as well as his "Messiah" G.F. Handel |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $800: "Pineapple Poll" is a ballet with music from works by this "Pinafore" pair Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $1000: Not to "J'Accuse" Alfred Bruneau, but he got opera stories like "Le Reve" from this author friend Emile Zola |
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