| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | ALL THINGS OPERA $400: On Nov. 23, 1903 this tenor made his U.S. debut playing the Duke in "Rigoletto" at the Metropolitan Opera Caruso |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | ALL THINGS OPERA $800: Adelheid Wette, Engelbert Humperdinck's sister, wrote the libretto for this 1893 opera of a fairy tale pair Hansel and Gretel |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | ALL THINGS OPERA $1200: This Finn's only opera, "The Maiden in the Tower", had a libretto in Swedish Sibelius |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | ALL THINGS OPERA $1600: The role Placido Domingo has played more than any other is Cavaradossi in this Puccini opera Tosca |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | ALL THINGS OPERA $2000: In Act II of this Verdi opera, a band of Gypsies sings the "Anvil Chorus", one of opera's most familiar numbers Il Trovatore |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | ALL THINGS OPERATIC $400: The final act of this opera takes place outside a bullring, where the heroine is stabbed to death Carmen |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | ALL THINGS OPERATIC $1600: The 3 basic vocal classifications for women opera singers are soprano, mezzo-soprano & this lowest range alto (or contralto) |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | ALL THINGS OPERATIC $2000: Italian opera of the early 1700s developed into 2 basic types: opera seria, or serious opera, & this, comic opera opera buffa |
| #5318, aired 2007-10-24 | ALL THINGS OPERATIC $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1939 she made her operatic debut in "Cavalleria rusticana" in Athens at age 15 Maria Callas |
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