#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $800: Long before the play & film, an 1898 opera about Mozart & this composer takes place in a room in Vienna & lasts all of 40 minutes Salieri |
#8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $200: The fairy tale about this brother & sister inspired an 1893 opera by the German composer Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel & Gretel |
#8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $2000: Wagner's opera about this title man ends with grail & spear reunited, & smiles all around Parsifal |
#8546, aired 2022-01-03 | 1950s TELEVISION $1600: On radio, this soap opera was all about a minister, but he had been written out when it began a 57-year TV run in 1952 Guiding Light |
#6343, aired 2012-03-28 | A CLASSICAL MIXUP $800: I was convinced Rossini wrote an 1829 opera about one of the Black Eyed Peas & this was the title, complete with dots will.i.am Tell |
#3516, aired 1999-12-13 | QUEENS IN OPERA $200: There's no de"Nile": Masse, Massenet & Mattheson all wrote operas about her Cleopatra |
#3224, aired 1998-09-17 | ALL ABOUT OPERA $200 (Daily Double): "Effervescent" nickname of the opera singer seen here "Bubbles" (Beverly Sills) |
#3224, aired 1998-09-17 | ALL ABOUT OPERA $200: In 1989 composer Gian Carlo Menotti directed his own opera about this boy "and the Night Visitors" Amahl |
#3224, aired 1998-09-17 | ALL ABOUT OPERA $400: This composer of the enchanting ballet "Swan Lake" wrote an opera called "The Enchantress" Tchaikovsky |
#3224, aired 1998-09-17 | ALL ABOUT OPERA $800: Be on the alert: "Alerta! Alerta!", one of his longest bass arias, appears in his opera "Il Trovatore" Giuseppe Verdi |
#3224, aired 1998-09-17 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: These salts used as a soaking aid for swelling are named for the British town of their discovery Epsom salts |
#3224, aired 1998-09-17 | ALL ABOUT OPERA $1000: This heroine of a Donizetti opera is the sister of Lord Enrico Ashton of Lammermoor Lucia |
#1655, aired 1991-11-08 | OPERA $1,500 (Daily Double): "The Mother Of Us All", by Virgil Thomson & Gertrude Stein, is about this American feminist Susan B. Anthony |
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