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[Quiz master]

I hope you enjoy it :)

What is the name of the composer, famous for his Hungarian Rhapsodies, that was Richard Wagner's father-in-law?

[wildrover]

Liszt - wonder if he would be turning in his grave knowing his music is best known for being in a Tom and Jerry cartoon...

[Quiz master]

Liszt is correct wildrover

[wildrover]

Which Verdi opera, based on a Victor Hugo play, has as its main characters the Duke of Mantua, his court jester and his daughter?

[Quiz master]

That's Rigoletto :)

[Quiz master]

Which Puccini opera is set amongst the poor writers and artists of nineteenth-century Paris?

[wildrover]

La Boheme? I can only name 4 Puccini operas and it's not the other three...

[Quiz master]

Well done wildrover :)

[wildrover]

La boheme is the second most performed opera in the world. Which is the most performed? And for a bonus point in which 1987 film was this opera central to the plot?

[JUS]

I'll guess Pirates of Penzance and Pretty Woman :?

[wildrover]

No - as a clue the irony is that the opera and the film have very similar plots...

[Tallscot]

Is the opera either Tosca or Carmen?

[Quiz master]

Maybe a Mozart one - Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute)

[wildrover]

No - although worthy guesses since all 3 of those operas are in the Top 10 most performed. As a further clue the film terrified a generation of married men and resulted in an alliterative expression for a female stalker becoming commonplace and the opera is 20th Century (just).

[JUS]

so it's summin to do with Bunny Boilers and Fatal Attraction.............. 8)