Opera Week Trivia Questions

11-13-2009

Answer our daily trivia questions all week long for the chance to win a pair of tickets to a 2010 Opera Company of Philadelphia performance! Winners will be chosen from all of the correct answers each day. Please give us your name, phone number, and e-mail address in your response.

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The Opera Company of Philadelphia's Opera Week Trivia Contest has come to a end. Thank you to everyone who participated and congratulations to the winners!

American soprano Jessye Norman

Tuesday's Answer: Marian Anderson

Monday's Answer: Mario Lanza

Friday's Question: Legendary American soprano Jessye Norman made her American operatic debut with the Opera Company of Philadelphia. What roles in which operas did she perform?
Friday's Answer: Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

Thursday's Question: What do James Morris, Ruth Ann Swenson, Juan Diego Florez, and Joyce Di Donato all have in common?
Thursday's Answer: All were trained in Philadelphia!

Wednesday's Question: What famous Philadelphia contralto made her groundbreaking debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and sang a legendary recital on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939?
Wednesday's Answer: Marian Anderson

Tuesday's Question: What was the first opera performed by the Opera Company of Philadelphia in the Academy of Music?
Tuesday's Answer: Gounod's Faust with Michele Molese, James Morris and Adriana Maliponte with Jean Périsson conducting - September 30, 1975

Monday's Question: What famous operatic Philadelphian was born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza?
Monday's Answer: Mario Lanza