| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | 20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD $800: Perhaps hearing "You're My Best Friend" from this band's album "A Night at the Opera" got you to book that Carnival cruise Queen |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MUSIC TERMS $1000: Beethoven felt Italians were ill-suited to dramatic opera & should stick with this, Italian for "comic opera" opera buffa |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $400: This 1893 classic cooked up by Engelbert Humperdinck is largely set in a dark German forest Hansel and Gretel |
| #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 |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $1600: Scenes in this Mussorgsky opera take place in the czar's quarters & in a square outside of St. Basil's Cathedral Boris Godunov |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $2000: Better known for "Faust", this French composer set his last opera, "The Tribute of Zamora", in Moorish Spain Gounod |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | OPERA SETTINGS $6,200 (Daily Double): Verdi's "Falstaff" is set in this town during the reign of Henry IV Windsor |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $400: A 35-year Broadway run--unlikely, but Thelma Pollard did, doing makeup for the face behind the mask of this show's title character The Phantom of the Opera |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $2000: There is a sense of foreboding in the overture to his 1862 opera "La forza del destino", or "The Force of Destiny" Verdi |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TV DRAMA $600: In the daytime drama world, Shemar Moore rose to fame in the '90s as Malcolm Winters on this soap opera set in Genoa City The Young and the Restless |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | LOST WORKS $800: In 1903 this "Maple Leaf Rag" composer lost a trunk worth of music scores that possibly contained a ragtime opera Joplin |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $1600: In 1972 at the Met this Italian opera singer, later one of The Three Tenors, received 17 curtain calls Pavarotti |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BOY GENIUS $400: At age 8, Sergei Prokofiev was taken to "Faust" & "Prince Igor"; he decided to write one of these too & in months composed "The Giant" an opera |
| #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 |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | EXPLORING U.S. CITIES $400: Chicago's throne-shaped theatre building with this kind of work in its name, opened with "Aida" in 1929 opera |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $400: In act IV of "La bohème", Musetta finds this woman half-dead; spoiler alert--by the end of the act, she's all dead Mimi |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $800: Here is Placido Domingo being a little nosy as this character Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $1200: Heard here is the famous "Toreador Song" from this opera Carmen |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): Benjamin Britten composed the music for an opera based on this sailor who shared Ben's initials Billy Budd |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $2000: The first in a trilogy of operas by Philip Glass about great men who changed the world was him "On the Beach" Einstein |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $300: Georges Bizet died three months after the 1875 premiere of this scandalous opera so he never knew of its enduring success Carmen |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $400: Julie Taymor directed the 2006 opera "Grendel", which retold this classic tale from the monster's point of view Beowulf |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $800: Andre Gretry, "the Moliere of music", composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king Richard I |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $1200: Rossini's opera about this tragic title character is subtitled "Il Moro di Venezia" Otello |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $1600: The name of this Italian opera house means "theater at the stairway" La Scala |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $2000: The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "and the Singer's Contest on the Wartburg" Tannhäuser |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $600: Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbor is home to this building, one of the most photographed in the world the Sydney Opera House |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POETRY ABOUT PROSE $1000: A disfigured guy / Falls for a woman in Paris, it's true / Sounds like it's "Hunchback" / But it's by a man named Leroux The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $400: In this Rossini opera, the title character's son, Jemmy is quite the archer himself William Tell |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $1200: In a Bela Bartok opera, Judith comes to live in this man's "Castle" & discovers its room of his previous wives Bluebeard |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $1600: The first Paris production of this composer, an 1861 "Tannhäuser", was a debacle due to dog whistles (the audible kind) Wagner |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $2000: Anna Netrebko shot to world fame as Donna Anna in a va-va-voom 2002 production of this Mozart opera Don Giovanni |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | OPERA $15,200 (Daily Double): Macchiato means coffee spotted with milk & "Una Macchia" is a Verdi aria about a spot from this Shakespeare woman Lady Macbeth |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $1000: A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this "Row" in the opera "Porgy & Bess" Catfish Row |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CULTURE CLUB $1200: The witch of this biblical place pops up in Carl Nielsen's opera "Saul and David" Endor |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "B"OOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing bel canto |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | OPUS & OPERA $200: "Satyagraha" is a Philip Glass opera about the early years of this world leader Gandhi |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | OPUS & OPERA $600: His sole opera, "Fidelio", tells a tale of a young woman disguising herself as a boy Beethoven |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | OPUS & OPERA $800: It's the title of Elgar's Opus 78 & of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Opus No. unknown, featuring actors on roller skates Starlight Express |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | OPUS & OPERA $1000: His Opus 68 is "From the Bohemian Forest", composed around 1883 Dvořák |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | OPUS & OPERA $2,600 (Daily Double): These are repetitions of a theme with changes; Paganini's Opus 9 is these on "God Save The King" variations |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | CANADIAN ARTISTES $400: Yannick Nézet-Séguin goes beyond the usual Verdi familiar works as music director since 2018 of this NYC organization the Metropolitan Opera |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | A "LA" CARTE $400: The musical "Rent" was loosely based on this Puccini opera La bohème |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $1600: The first group of honorees in 1978 included this opera singer Marian Anderson |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | STREET SMARTS $1600: The city of Salford, near Manchester, has the real street that inspired this British soap opera Coronation Street |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: The Met's home in this complex opened in 1966 with Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" Lincoln Center |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1200: Enrico Caruso is seen here as this biblical hero in a Met production of a Saint-Saens opera Samson |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1600: The Met gave the American premiere of his "Turandot" & the world premiere of his "Girl of the Golden West" Puccini |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $2000: In 2021 the Met premiered its first opera by a Black composer, this jazz trumpeter 5 months younger than Wynton Marsalis Terence Blanchard |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): Emma Calvé might have tired of the habanera when she set a Met record singing this role 138 times Carmen |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $200: X marks the spot where the New York City Opera premiered "X: The Life and Times of" this activist Malcolm X |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $400: Once called "America's most lurid talk show", it inspired a 2001 opera that took London by storm Jerry Springer |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $600: The 2000 opera "In the Penal Colony" is based on a gruesome 1914 story by this author of "The Metamorphosis" Kafka |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $800: Sister Aloysius suspects Father Flynn of illicit acts in an opera version of this John Patrick Shanley play Doubt |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | NOT YOUR AVERAGE OPERA $1000: "Nixon in China" is an opera by this composer with the name of a Founding Father John Adams |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | THE 1600s $600: The oldest opera for which complete music still exists is Jacopo Peri's 1600 work about this lover of Orpheus Eurydice |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MERRY MELODIES $1600: This composer also known for ballets composed a merry waltz for his opera "Eugene Onegin" Tchaikovsky |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | OPERA $400: In this Verdi opera, Manrico is a tenor & a troubadour, the meaning of the work's Italian title Il trovatore |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | OPERA $800: "Cav & Pag" is shorthand for the pairing of this one-act opera by Mascagni with "Pagliacci" Cavalleria rusticana |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | OPERA $1200: The plot of this comic opera by Mozart centers on 2 sisters & their soldier boyfriends; the 3-word title is fun to say Così fan tutte |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | OPERA $2000: How meta is this Puccini opera? Its title character is an opera singer, it's set in Rome in 1800 & premiered in Rome in 1900 Tosca |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): The title character of this Bellini opera set in ancient Gaul is a Druid priestess Norma |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | TALKING ABOUT WOMEN $1000: Nina Simone said this opera singer of Greek heritage "was a fiery diva" & she "did what she wanted to do" Maria Callas |
| #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 |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | LONG MOVIES $1200: A 1962 review for this Best Picture winner called it a "camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly... into its third hour" Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $800: The one-act opera "Cavalleria rusticana" features one of these orchestral interludes an intermezzo |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | BOOKS BY CHAPTERS $1200: By Gaston Leroux:
"At the Masked Ball", "The End of the Ghost's Love Story" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | ACCESSORIES $1000: Anya Taylor-Joy & Olivia Wilde are among the stars who have worn opera-length these accessories on the red carpet gloves |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: This tale about Max & some monsters was later turned into a short opera featuring a libretto by Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER $800: (Andrew Lloyd Webber presents the clue.) I am proud to have created this longest-running musical on Broadway; it opened in 1988 & after almost 14,000 performances, the chandelier dropped for the last time in 2023 The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | THE ARTS $400: Bizet's "Toréador Song" is a standout in this 1875 opera Carmen |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TURNS $2000: Peter Quint is a ghost plaguing the children in Benjamin Britten's opera based on this Henry James work The Turn of the Screw |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | QUICK OPERA $400: A house overlooking Nagasaki Harbor is the setting of this opera Madama Butterfly |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | QUICK OPERA $800: In the classic song "Tears Of A Clown", you'll hear the Italian title of this opera Pagliacci |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | QUICK OPERA $1600: The myth about this great singer is a natural opera subject & in 2021 Juilliard revived a 1647 Italian version Orpheus |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | QUICK OPERA $2000: The title guy in this Verdi opera is the son of the king of Spain Don Carlos |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | QUICK OPERA $7,000 (Daily Double): 3 ladies give Tamino this title item, but no lessons the Magic Flute |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | AMERICAN WOMAN $2000: A self-titled 1961 L.P. of arias sung by this great "L.P." is known to opera lovers as the "Blue Album" Leontyne Price |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: There's a pair of Zs in this word for a type of musical entertainment presented between opera acts intermezzo |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | THE NO-S PLURAL OF... $1000: Opus opera |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME $600: Opera text about an almond liqueur amaretto libretto |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $2000: In 1928 "The Threepenny Opera" sang out from composer Kurt Weill & this alliterative writer from Augsburg Bertolt Brecht |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | HOW ARE YOU FEELING? $600: This uneasy adjective has been the second half of a TV soap opera title since March 26, 1973 restless |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BE ARTHUR $1200: He wrote an "Ivanhoe" opera without his partner W.S. Gilbert Arthur Sullivan |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A DISASTER ARIA $200: In a Gounod opera, Juliet sings to him that she forgives him for killing one of her clan Romeo |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A DISASTER ARIA $600: Revenge spurs the queen of night in this Mozart opera as she urges her daughter towards murder in a bloodthirsty aria The Magic Flute |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | SYNONYMS $3,000 (Daily Double): In opera, diva is a synonym for this 2-word Italian term prima donna |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | THE "A"RTS $400: This tune for one singer can come from an opera or an oratorio aria |
| #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 |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ACTION & ADVENTURE NOVELS $1200: Craig Alanson created this series of novels, exforce for short, as a "military space opera" Expeditionary Force |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | BRIDGES $1200: A steel-arch bridge across Port Jackson & a nearby opera house are landmarks of this city Sydney |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: This 1829 opera has the title Swiss mister take on the evil Gesler William Tell |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | THE PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS ARE THE THING $3,400 (Daily Double): We need your initial reaction to this 1988 David Henry Hwang play about a singer in the Beijing Opera with many secrets M. Butterfly |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | CLASSICAL IS IN $1200: This man's only opera, "Fidelio", takes place in a Spanish prison, not a German one Beethoven |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | CLASSICAL IS IN $2000: This Wagner opera concerns the winning back of a magic spear from the magician Klingsor Parsifal |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | OPERA $400: This Puccini opera is set in a garret apartment in Paris' Latin Quarter La bohème |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | OPERA $800: The title character of this Bizet opera works at a cigarette factory Carmen |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | OPERA $1600: Not a comic opera, it has a name meaning "the clowns" Pagliacci |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | OPERA $2000: His score for "Der Rosenkavalier" includes several Viennese waltzes Richard Strauss |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | OPERA $6,000 (Daily Double): "The Libertine Punished" is part of the full title of this Mozart opera Don Giovanni |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | LANDMARKS $500: Frank Gehry said the landmark seen here that opened in this city in 1973 "changed the image of an entire country" Sydney |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $1000: Marie Duplessis, a courtesan & the lover of Alexandre Dumas fils, inspired the character of Violetta in this Verdi opera La traviata |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | BETWEEN 2 "C"s $400: It describes an opera like "The Maid as Mistress", or can mean any funny performer comic |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | COMPOSE YOURSELF $400: By him:
the opera "Così fan tutte" Mozart |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | COMPOSE YOURSELF $600: From the 1870s, "Marche slave" & the opera "Eugene Onegin", by him Tchaikovsky |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | CITY SPEAK $800: It precedes man, seen here, or opera Peking (Beijing) |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: The title character in Antonin Dvořák's opera "Rusalka" is one of these water-dwelling creatures a nymph |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $400: Born in Naples in 1873, this opera legend is seen here in costume for the lead role in "Pagliacci" Caruso |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $600: It's been called the lowest & richest sound among female voices; Erda in "Siegfried" is a notable role for one a contralto |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $800: In this 1791 opera Tamino is given the title musical instrument to protect him on his journey The Magic Flute |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): A play by French dramatist Pierre Beaumarchais served as the basis for this Rossini opera set in a Spanish city The Barber of Seville |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $400: An opera named for this character is based on "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Falstaff |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $800: In a Rossini opera, he shaves Dr. Bartolo Figaro |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $1200: Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo has focused his singing in this high register range falsetto |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $1600: In 1841 Richard Wagner composed "Der fliegende Holländer", this opera in English The Flying Dutchman |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | AN "F" IN OPERA $2000: A high point of the opera "Lakmé" by Léo Delibes is this "duet" heard here the "Flower Duet" |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | HEGEL $1600: Opera lover Hegel befriended Anna Milder-Hauptmann, the first to sing the role of this woman who disguises herself as Fidelio Leonore |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | HEAD FOR THE HILLS $800: "The Beggar's Opera" of 1728 contains the ballad that rhymes, "If with me you'd fondly stray over the hills &..." here far away |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | SILENT FILMS WITH JACQUELINE STEWART $1200: (Jacqueline Stewart of Turner Classic Movies presents the clue.) Lon Chaney's face was so frightening in this Paris-set film that some moviegoers reportedly fainted when his mask was removed The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: Even after she dumps him for a matador, a soldier still loves this character & begs her to start a new life with him Carmen |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: In a Bellini opera the heroine Amina suffers from this often nocturnal affliction she sleepwalks |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS $1200: In "Parsifal", the wounded King Amfortas is the keeper of this sacred object the Grail |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS $1600: Prince Yamadori's offer of marriage is turned down in this opera Madame Butterfly |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | OPERA CHARACTERS $2000: A peasant girl named Marenka is the title betrothed in this Smetana opera The Bartered Bride |
| #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 |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | MISCELLANY $1600: This Italian's 1867 opera "Don Carlos" was written in French, & in 2022 the Metropolitan Opera finally sang it that way Verdi |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | LET'S TAKE A WALK $100: A Sony exec wanting to hear opera was the original impetus for this portable cassette player the Walkman |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | IDINA MENZEL ACTS & SINGS $800: (Idina Menzel presents the clue.) In 1996, I made my Broadway debut in "Rent"; my character, a performance artist named Maureen, was based on Musetta in this Puccini opera La bohème |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LONG RUN ON TV WITH KEN JENNINGS $1500: (Ken delivers the clue.) 2 jobs with security are police officer & soap opera actor; Doug Davidson was both, playing Paul Williams of the Genoa City PD on this show on which he was a regular for 42 years The Young and the Restless |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WORDS FROM GERMAN $1,000 (Daily Double): This word for a recurring musical theme in an opera or symphony comes partly from German for "lead" leitmotif |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | MUSIC $400: Sorbetto is one type of this solo song in an opera; the audience would get sorbets as a supporting character sang an aria |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | BROADCASTING HISTORY $800: In 1946 "Faraway Hill", about a widow in love with a man engaged to another woman, brought this genre to network television soap opera |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $400: In the opera "Dead Man Walking", Sister Helen meets her pen pal, a death row inmate, at Angola Penitentiary in this state Louisiana |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $800: Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" begins in Thebes with the passing of Amenhotep III & words sung from this tome Book of the Dead |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $1200: This composer set "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" in a city south of his birthplace, Leipzig Wagner |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $2000: A Strauss opera has this title princess "auf Naxos", abandoned by Theseus after she helped him escape the Labyrinth Ariadne |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): "Nabucco", based on the life of Nebuchadnezzar, features a scene in this city's gardens Babylon |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | WELSH FOLK $1000: Opera star Bryn Terfel put out an album called "Bad Boys" on which he sings roles like this Mozart seducer Don Giovanni |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | THE ARTS $800: Poor Mimi in this Puccini opera dies from tuberculosis La bohème |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE POWER OF THE DOGE $2000: A Verdi opera subject, Francesco Foscari warred with the leader of this city, not Prospero but Filippo Maria Visconti Milan |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS $1600: It's the text or "book" of an opera or a musical a libretto |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | BE MERRY $2000: Wagner's opera about this title man ends with grail & spear reunited, & smiles all around Parsifal |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: As well as an imposing title, "Die Gezeichneten" has one of opera's longest of these musical preludes at about 20 minutes an overture |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE $1200: Traditionally, in Gounod's opera, Faust is a tenor while Méphistophélès is this, like Nicolai Ghiaurov in a classic recording a bass |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | OPERA $400: After this character learns her lover has married another, she commits seppuku using the same knife her father had used to kill himself Madame Butterfly |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | OPERA $800: The "Triumphal March" is from this Verdi opera in which Egypt triumphs over Ethiopia Aida |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | OPERA $1200: Beethoven's only opera, it enjoyed little early success, as Vienna was occupied by French troops during its premiere Fidelio |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | OPERA $1600: Influenced by the "Ride Of The Valkyries", the "Hexenritt" in Humperdinck's opera "Hansel & Gretel" is a ride of these witches |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | PLACES IN THE BIBLE $2000: This Phoenician city was home to Hiram, who helped Solomon build the first temple by supplying workers & material Tyre |
| #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 |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $400: Also known for his detective fiction, French author Gaston Leroux wrote this 1910 "operatic" work The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | YOUR TV HOST WITH THE MOST $200: This "Daily Show" host acted on a South African soap opera called "Isidingo" when he was 18 Trevor Noah |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | EVERYTHING IS GOLDEN $400: Premiering in 2010 the opera "The Golden Ticket" is an adaptation of this beloved novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | COMPOSERS $1000: This composer wrote "The Humming Chorus" for the part of the opera where Butterfly waits & hopes for Pinkerton's return Puccini |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | EUROPE $1,000 (Daily Double): Rossini never visited this Spanish city where he set an 1816 opera Seville |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | ARTS NEWS $7,200 (Daily Double): In 2021 Gary Avis danced Virgil in a Royal Opera House production commemorating the 700th anniversary of this poet's death Dante Aligheri |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE $200: Mozart:
"The ____ Flute" Magic |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE $400: Wagner:
"____ und Isolde" Tristan |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE $600: Gluck:
"Orfeo ed ____" Euridice |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE $800: Offenbach:
"The Tales of ____" Hoffmann |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | COMPLETE THE OPERA TITLE $1000: Donizetti:
"Lucia di ____" Lammermoor |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: Act I of this long-running musical starts with the song "Think Of Me" & ends with a chandelier crashing The Phantom of the Opera |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | EXIT STAGE LEFT $2000: Only the good die young, as when Mimi dies of consumption in this Puccini opera about young Parisians La bohème |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | CLASSIC NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): Newland Archer arrives fashionably late to the opera as this novel set in 1870s New York begins The Age of Innocence |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | BOATS & SHIPS $3,400 (Daily Double): These boats in the lagoon at Boston's Public Garden were inspired by the opera "Lohengrin" & declared a Boston landmark the swan boats |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $400: The part of the devil is sung by a bass in Gounod's opera about this soul-seller Faust |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $800: Alberich is very fond of that ring he has crafted in an opera by this composer Richard Wagner |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $1200: Katharina's aria "My Strength Fails" is a highlight of Hermann Goetz' opera based on this Shakespeare comedy The Taming of the Shrew |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $1600: Lorenzo da Ponte, librettist for this 1787 Mozart opera about a seducer, was friends with Casanova, who had the same hobby IRL Don Giovanni |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | OPERA $2000: In Richard Strauss' opera about this woman, her dancing leads to the death of John the Baptist Salome |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $200: Have a g'day at this city's Taronga Zoo, opened in 1884, then have a g'night at the opera house Sydney |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $400: Enjoy the 360-degree views in the Atomium built for Expo 58 in this Belgian Capital & then the music in its De Munt National Opera House Brussels |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $600: Get your rodeo on during the 10 days of its stampede & also mosey over to the Mamdani Opera Centre Calgary |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $800: Meet up in Yitzhak Rabin Square & enjoy the Israeli opera at the performing arts centre in this 2-word city Tel Aviv |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | & THEN TO THE OPERA HOUSE! $2,000 (Daily Double): This Po River city's Santa Sindone Chapel houses a famous linen; there's great opera at its Teatro Regio Turin |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | CONDUCTORS $1600: Sir Thomas Beecham conducted many U.K. premieres at the Royal Opera House in this London "Garden" spot Covent Garden |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BALLET $800: Havana-born Alicia Alonso was known for her sensual portrayal of the tragic title woman of the ballet based on this Bizet opera Carmen |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | A FARCE TO BE RECKONED WITH $1600: Ken Ludwig's play about an assistant taking the place of a drunken opera star is called "Lend me" this, punning on British money slang a Tenor |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | SUBURBS $1000: Shostakovich titled an opera "Moscow, Cheryomushki", a suburb where in 1958 this leader began an experiment in prefab apartments Khrushchev |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS $1600: In 1844, before this brass woodwind was even patented, Jean-Georges Kastner used it in his opera "The Last King of Judah" the saxophone |
| #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 |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | NASTY, BRITISH $1000: Crowbar-wielding Richard Hillman gave chills on "Corrie", aka this perennial British soap opera Coronation Street |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | OPERA $400: Renee Fleming made her debut at the Met as Countess Almaviva in this Mozart opera whose title promises a wedding The Marriage of Figaro |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | OPERA $800: Act I of this Rossini opera is set on the shores of Lake Lucerne William Tell |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | OPERA $1200: Composer Philip Glass said his work this man "on the Beach" is "an opera about a great mathematician who loved music" Einstein |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | OPERA $2000: Dr. Grenvil examines Violetta in act 3 of this Verdi opera, but it is too late--she dies in her lover's arms La traviata |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | OPERA $2,200 (Daily Double): One of the librettists of this Puccini opera went to Nagasaki to help set the scene more accurately Madame Butterfly |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | POP CULTURE-POURRI $800: On April 1, 1963 ABC premiered this soap opera & NBC launched a similar rival, "The Doctors" General Hospital |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | YOU GOT A LOT OF IRV, PAL! $1200: Irving Thalberg, who has a building named for him on our Sony lot, produced "A Night at the Opera" for this comedy team in 1935 the Marx Brothers |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ALSO IN YOUR BATHROOM $200: Melodramatic daytime TV "opera" soap |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | ITALIAN ARTS & CULTURE $200: For many years Arturo Toscanini was the principal conductor & music director at this famed Milan opera house La Scala |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL $400: Philip Glass based "The Perfect American" on Peter Stephan Jungk's book about this animation tycoon's last days Disney |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL $800: This Italian based "La Traviata" on a play written by Alexandre Dumas, son of the famous novelist Verdi |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL $1200: Henry Purcell's "The Fairy Queen", usually dubbed the first Shakespearean opera, is based on this play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL $1600: An Italian play provided inspiration for Puccini to write this Chinese-set opera based on a Persian tale Turandot |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL $2000: "Acis and Galatea" is based on a myth we know from this man's "Metamorphoses" Ovid |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | 2-WORD PALINDROMES $1200: An eager female opera star an avid diva |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | MUSICAL TOURING COMPANIES $800: Christine,
Raoul,
Music Box The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | AT THE BALLET $400: Tchaikovsky had a double premiere on Dec. 18, 1892: his opera "Iolanta" & this ballet The Nutcracker |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | ARTISTIC 19th CENTURY WOMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): Married last name of opera art director Cosima; two of her children were named Siegfried & Isolde Wagner |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: King Gustav III of this country was shot at the opera house in 1792 & died 2 weeks later Sweden |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $400: In 1892 Buenos Aires & Bogota both hoped to open new opera houses named for this explorer; only Bogota's was inaugurated on time Columbus |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $800: In addition to many operas, Paris' Palais Garnier hosted a very wicked villain in this 1910 Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | PARDON MY FRENCHMAN $1200: Bernard Boursicot was pardoned in 1987, shortly before the debut of this play inspired by his affair with an opera singer/spy M. Butterfly |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $1200: This opera house opened in Milan in 1778 with a performance of "Europa Recognized" by Salieri La Scala |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $1600: After World War I, upon the demise of this dynasty that ruled there, Vienna's Court Opera was renamed the State Opera Habsburg |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE $2000: In 1973 Prokofiev's "War and Peace" was the first opera performed at this opera house very far south of Russia the Sydney Opera House |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | THE ARTS $800: "Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it in mine", sings Rodolfo to Mimi in this opera La bohème |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | DAYTIME TV $1200: This long-running soap opera centers on the daytime dramas of the Abbott & Newman clans The Young and the Restless |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS $800: Do you know the way to this capital of Costa Rica? If you do, check out its National Theatre, modeled after the Paris Opera San Jose |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | OLDE MUSIC $400: "Die Zauberflöte" in German, this Mozart opera premiered in 1791, just months before the composer's death The Magic Flute |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | LET'S GET SERIOUS $1200: In the 1700s, opera was dominated by 2 major forms: the more prestigious opera seria & opera this, Italian for comic opera buffa |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | OVER BUDGET $800: The government of New South Wales held a lottery for 30 years to pay for this building whose budget went from $7 mil. to $102 mil. the Sydney Opera House |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | THEY DON'T LIVE ON SESAME STREET $1000: The grandfather of this Broadway lyricist was a major impresario of Vaudeville & opera Oscar Hammerstein |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | THE MASKED MUSICIAN $1600: This Broadway musical title character began haunting the Majestic on Jan. 26, 1988 & stuck around for a while the Phantom of the Opera |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | ARIA GRANDE $5 (Daily Double): Susanna sings the beautiful aria "Deh vieni, non tardar" in this Mozart opera that promises nuptials The Marriage of Figaro |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | ARIA GRANDE $2000: In this opera, Canio's aria "Vesti la giubba" tells of the tragic fate of playing a clown while your heart is breaking Pagliacci |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $600: Like sands through the hourglass, Richie & Fonzie get caught up in the soap opera set in the fictional town of Salem Happy Days of Our Lives |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | DESCRIBING THE FILM TRILOGY $600: Killings intercut with baptism; killings in Cuba; killings intercut with an opera The Godfather |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | OPERA $400: Mephistopheles is a bass in Gounod's opera about this title soul-selling philosopher Faust |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | OPERA $800: In this opera, Lt. Pinkerton is already married to Cio-Cio-san when he turns up with an American wife named Kate Madame Butterfly |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | OPERA $1600: Her beloved Radames is sentenced to be buried alive; she joins him so the pair can die together Aida |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | OPERA $2000: Female fickleness is the subject of this Mozart opera whose title can be translated as "all women do the same" Così fan tutte |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): "Almaviva, or the Useless Precaution" was the original title of this Rossini opera; its current title honors Figaro's profession The Barber of Seville |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | 4-LETTER SYNONYMS $600: Prima donna, as an opera star or otherwise a diva |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | MOVIE THEATERS $1200: Lon Chaney haunted the title theater in the 1925 film version of this Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: The soundtrack of "Apocalypse Now" includes this piece from a Wagner opera "Ride of the Valkyries" |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | SCOTT LAND $1200: In a 1977 biopic Billy Dee Williams played this ragtime pianist who dreamed of having his opera produced Scott Joplin |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | FUNNY TV SONGS $1600: Songs in the rock opera "The Nightman Cometh" are part of an elaborate scheme for Charlie to propose marriage on this show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WOMEN ON STAMPS $2000: The first African American soloist to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, this contralto was honored on a stamp in 2005 Marian Anderson |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | OPERA SETTINGS $400: This opera opens at the Royal Palace in Memphis during the time of the pharaohs Aida |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | OPERA SETTINGS $800: This Puccini classic is set in the Latin Quarter during the 1830s La bohème |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | OPERA SETTINGS $1200: This opera opens at a cigarette factory in Seville & closes outside an arena Carmen |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | OPERA SETTINGS $1600: The opera about this alliterative Melville sailor takes place aboard the HMS Indomitable Billy Budd |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | OPERA SETTINGS $2000: "Porgy and Bess" is set in an area known by this "fishy" name Catfish Row |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | OPERA SONGS $400: "Habanera" is the popular name for an aria from this opera about a gypsy woman Carmen |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | OPERA SONGS $800: "Vesti la giubba" ("put on the costume") is from this clownish work Pagliacci |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | OPERA SONGS $1600: "Liebestod" ("Love-Death") is from this Wagner opera about a pair of doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | OPERA SONGS $2000: This "Chorus" hammers down in the Verdi opera "Il Trovatore" the "Anvil Chorus" |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | OPERA SONGS $5,000 (Daily Double): Sung first by Clara, not by either title character, "Summertime & the livin' is easy" in this 20th century opera Porgy and Bess |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | ON THE SUBJECT $400: This French peasant girl was the subject of Tchaikovsky's opera "The Maid of Orleans" Joan of Arc |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | GLOVE $200: This type of theater has its own long-length glove opera |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | ENTERTAINING BROTHERS $400: These brothers starred in the classic film "A Night at the Opera" the Marx Brothers |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | VOCABULARY $2000: An 18th c. group of lovers of everything from archaeology to opera introduced this word for one who flits from one interest to another a dilettante |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | RICK'S ROLE $800: In 2013 Rick Springfield returned to this soap opera as Dr. Noah Drake General Hospital |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ON A HIGH NOTE $400: In 2017 Audrey Luna hit the highest note ever at NYC's Metropolitan Opera singing in this vocal range in "The Exterminating Angel" soprano |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ON A HIGH NOTE $1600: A tenor in this title role hits a high A flat singing "Let your soul take you where you long to be!" from "The Music Of The Night" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ON A HIGH NOTE $2000: Mario Lanza is no ordinary vineyard worker in the film "Serenade", singing the high notes of "Nessun Dorma" from this Puccini opera Turandot |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | THE NOT-SO-WILD WEST $400: A theater called this grand style of music "House" opened in Leadville, Co. in 1879; opening night was overshadowed by a nearby hanging an opera |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZES $2000: The Music Pulitzer went to Anthony Davis for his opera about these wrongly convicted "Five" from Harlem the Central Park Five |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Mozart performed here at Schönbrunn Palace multiple times, starting at age 6; the palace orchestra still plays this 1786 nuptial opera of his The Marriage of Figaro |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from outside the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) Damaged by World War II bombs, the State Opera House reopened with a production of this Beethoven opera in November, 1955, 150 years to the month of the work's premiere Fidelio |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | MUSICAL VIENNA $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from inside the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) In a tradition since 1900, around New Year's, the Vienna State Opera presents this Johann Strauss Jr. operetta whose name means "the bat" Die Fledermaus |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | MASKS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this French novel, a singer named Christine longs to see beneath the mask of the title character The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $200: After his U.S. debut with Joan Sutherland in 1965, this bearded Italian tenor hit the high C's as Tonjo in "La fille du régiment" Pavarotti |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $400: Opera hits a real low note (a "D") in an aria by Osmin, a role for this vocal range in Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" bass |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $800: In a Samuel Barber opera, you know that this queen is about to die when a man enters carrying a basket of figs Cleopatra |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $1000: The king's aria to a tree is a highlight of Handel's "Serse", about the Persian king better known as this Xerxes |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | A NIGHT AT THE OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this famed opera house in Milan built by Maria Theresa in the 1770s translates to "the staircase" La Scala |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $400: Fans of a previous Figaro adaptation booed & hissed at the premiere of this Rossini opera--later performances went better The Barber of Seville |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $800: A ship's captain is cursed to sail the seas forever unless he can find a faithful wife in this Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $1200: The Grisettes performing this high-kicking dance in act III is a highlight of "The Merry Widow" the can-can |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $1600: The title character of "Norma" is a high priestess of this Celtic class the Druids |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): Henry Kissinger & Mao Tse-tung are characters in this 20th century opera Nixon in China |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | RADIO: THEN & NOW $400: SiriusXM channels include Met Opera Radio, Real Jazz & Hair Nation, devoted to hair bands of this decade the '80s |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | RUSSIAN OPERA $400: There are more than 60 different singing roles in Sergei Prokofiev's opera adaptation of this Tolstoy novel War and Peace |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | RUSSIAN OPERA $800: Stalin walked out of Shostakovich's opera called this ambitious Shakespeare lady "of the Mtsensk District" Lady Macbeth |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | RUSSIAN OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): This iconic insect theme was written by Rimsky-Korsakov as an interlude for the opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" "Flight Of The Bumblebee" |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | RUSSIAN OPERA $1200: Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Francesca da Rimini" is based on a canto of this 14th century work The Divine Comedy (Inferno) |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | RUSSIAN OPERA $2000: Just before a duel in Tchaikovsky's opera about this Pushkin hero, the aria heard here is sung Eugene Onegin |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | WJPY CLASSICAL RADIO $1000: Time to liven up your commute with the overture to this 1866 Smetana opera about a young woman's marriage prospects The Bartered Bride |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | NORSEMEN $400: Unlike Hägar's, the first complete Viking helmet ever found lacks these, largely an invention of a 19th century Wagner opera designer horns |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | ITALIAN OPERA $400: Vincenzo Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" is based on this Shakespeare work Romeo and Juliet |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | ITALIAN OPERA $800: The khedive of Egypt considered Wagner & Gounod to write the music for this opera, but Verdi won out in the end Aida |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | ITALIAN OPERA $1200: A double bill of Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" & this Leoncavallo opera is called "Cav & Pag" Pagliacci |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | ITALIAN OPERA $1600: He said he composed 94 operas, which would have kept him busy all "Four Seasons"; many are now lost, but not "Orlando Furioso" Vivaldi |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | ITALIAN OPERA $2000: Based on the same myth, Peri's "Euridice" & this Monteverdi work are 2 of the earliest Italian operas L'Orfeo |
| #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 |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 1873 Jules Verne adventure novel that's an NBC soap opera on the air since 1965 Around the World in Eighty Days of Our Lives |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Rising out of a fjord, this capital city has an opera house that appeals to music lovers & skateboarders Oslo |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | MISSING PIECES $1200: In a Broadway musical: music, lyrics, this word for the script or libretto the book |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | OPERA $400: The music from this 1816 opera heard here sure ain't shave & a haircut, 2 bits The Barber of Seville |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | OPERA $800: Let's get Bizet with this 1875 title woman & her gypsy pals Frasquita & Mercédès Carmen |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | OPERA $1200: Here's an 1853 chorus from this "green" guy & we'll even throw in the anvil for free Verdi |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | OPERA $1600: In 2004 this tenor played 3 final performances in "Tosca" to sold-out crowds at the Met Pavarotti |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | OPERA $2000: When it comes to this composer, tonight, let it be "Lohengrin" (Prelude to act III) Wagner |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | COMEDIA DELL'ARTE CHARACTERS $2000: Pedrolino often used white makeup instead of a mask & was the inspiration for the tragic clown of this Leoncavallo opera Pagliacci |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | IN THE ARTS WORLD $2000: Bregenz, Austria is known for the artistry of its floating stages, like the great wall as the backdrop of this Puccini opera Turandot |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | OPERA ZINGERS $400: Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" has lots to say to this other British queen, such as "Figlia impura di Bolena" Elizabeth I |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | OPERA ZINGERS $800: "Vile intruder who thou art" are the first words directed to this Mozart seducer Don Giovanni |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | OPERA ZINGERS $1200: This Verdi guy's joking includes suggesting the Count of Ceprano be beheaded since his head is useless on his shoulders Rigoletto |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | OPERA ZINGERS $1600: "You inconsiderate jade" is one of the nicer things said to Polly in this 1728 "opera" that inspired the 20th c. "Threepenny Opera" The Beggar's Opera |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | OPERA ZINGERS $2000: The Wagnerian dwarf Alberich calls these "maidens" "bony fish" who should "take eels for their lovers" Rhinemaidens |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | MUSIC HALLS $1200: One of America's oldest opera houses, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia was modeled on this Milan venue La Scala |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | PLACES $800: The opera ain't over until you get to Bayreuth, Germany & its periodic festivals celebrating this composer's work Wagner |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | ENTERING THE LANGUAGE $800: 1738: this 2-word term for low-powered binoculars you might take to a performance of "Aida" opera glasses |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | ROCK OPERAS $400: When this 1971 "super" Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera premiered onstage, it was performed concert-style Jesus Christ Superstar |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | ROCK OPERAS $1200: The title of this 1973 rock opera by The Who is partly drawn from an incorrect understanding of schizophrenia Quadrophenia |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | ROCK OPERAS $1600: Pink Floyd is the band & the main character in this 1979 rock opera The Wall |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | ROCK OPERAS $2000: John Cameron Mitchell wrote a 1998 rock opera about this genderqueer cabaret singer "& the Angry Inch" Hedwig |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE ARTS $400: In 1957 Danish architect Jørn Utzon won a contest to design this; his winning entry featured sail-like shells the Sydney Opera House |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | FAIRY TALES & FOLK TALES $1000: The opera "Rusalka", about a water nymph who longs to be human, is partly based on this fairy tale by H.C. Andersen The Little Mermaid |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | MUSIC & LEGEND $800: Philip Glass wrote an opera to be played as the soundtrack of Jean Cocteau's movie of this girl-&-monster tale La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | MUSIC & LEGEND $1200: She's the title character singing in a Purcell opera after Aeneas has left her Dido |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | METAPHORS $200: John Gay in "The Beggar's Opera" calls it "the knot that sacred love hath tied" matrimony |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | META-FOURS $800: Teresa of Ávila & Ignatius of Loyola appear in Gertrude Stein's libretto for the opera titled "Four" these "in 3 Acts" Saints |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | A EUROPEAN RIVER TOUR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the State Opera House in Vienna, Austria.) The Vienna State Opera House was built in Neo this style to reflect that 16th century period of artistic rediscovery when the art form of opera was born Renaissance |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | GREAT DANES $1200: Playing a shell game, Jørn Utzon won a 1957 design competition for what would become this Australian landmark the Sydney Opera House |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | COUNTRY OF THE OPERA $400: "Carmen" Spain |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | COUNTRY OF THE OPERA $800: "Anna Bolena" England |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | "EL" OR "LA" $1200: Soprano Maria Callas made her debut at this Milan opera house in 1950 La Scala |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | COUNTRY OF THE OPERA $1200: "Elektra" Greece |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | COUNTRY OF THE OPERA $1600: "Guillaume Tell" Switzerland |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | COUNTRY OF THE OPERA $2000: "Turandot" China |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $800: Giovanni Verga turned his own story "Cavalleria rusticana" into a play & it was famously turned into this in 1890 an opera |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | HAVE AN ARTSY CHRISTMASTIME $4,000 (Daily Double): A collaboration of brother composer & sister librettist, this opera version of a brother-&-sister kids' tale is a yuletide tradition Hansel and Gretel |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $2000: Chretien de Troyes' 12th c. Arthurian tale about this young knight's search for the grail was the basis for a Wagner opera Parsifal |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | SPECIAL "OP"s $800: A musical work not as serious as "Rigoletto"; "Babes in Toyland", for example operetta (*light opera) |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $800: Roles in this opera include Suzuki, American Consul Sharpless & Trouble, the title woman's child Madama Butterfly |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $1200: Raimondo, chaplain to this noble house, urges Lucia to accept her arranged marriage Lammermoor |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $1600: In this opera Canio tells Nedda, more or less, "I'm funny how, like I'm a clown, I amuse you?" Then stabs her Pagliacci |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | IN THE OPERA CAST $2000: It makes sense that Manrico in this Verdi opera sings beautifully; he is "The Troubadour" Il Trovatore |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | MUSICAL QUOTES $2000: Nietzsche said of this opera composer, his former friend, "His art presses with the weight of a hundred atmospheres" Wagner |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: The singer who voiced the Ape King in "The Jungle Book" was a leading female opera soloist & the "Queen of Disco" Louis Prima Donna Summer |
| #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 |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | AUTOMATONS $1600: In Offenbach's opera "Tales of" this man, the writer falls in love with an automaton named Olympia Hoffmann |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | SPEAK SOFTLY $1000: In an opera score, instructions telling a singer to hold back include mezza voce & this voce sotto |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | THESE TV SHOWS ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK $1600: Since 1973 audiences have tuned in to watch the tempestuous folks of Genoa City on this soap opera The Young and the Restless |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | ADAPTATIONS $800: Depicted here is Carlo Gozzi, whose play "The Love of" these was turned into an opera by Prokofiev The Love of Three Oranges |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | YOUNG MAN $200: At 12 Mozart wrote "Bastien und Bastienne", one of these composed in German, not Italian an opera |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | ENTRANCE MUSIC $2000: Bellini wrote a dramatic march for the entrance of this opera title character, a Druid priestess Norma |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | ITALIAN MUSIC TERMS $400: 2-word term for the principal female singer in an opera; some can be temperamental prima donna |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | ITALIAN MUSIC TERMS $800: Meaning "little book", it's the words of an opera libretto |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THE GOLDEN HOARD $1000: In an opera this dwarf makes a ring from the gold of the Rhine & enslaves the Nibelungen Alberich |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | MASKS $600: The "Music Of The Night" might surround you when you wear the mask from this musical The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $200: A moving scene in Ambroise Thomas' opera "Hamlet" includes the funeral procession of this character Ophelia |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $600: Opera composer Christoph Gluck wrote that this instrumental segment should prepare people for the play's plot the overture |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $800: Richard Strauss' "Elektra" has a big recognition scene between the title character & him Orestes |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): Spoiler: Eurydice dies in Monteverdi's 1607 opera named for this protagonist Orpheus |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $1000: Unfinished at his death, his "Tales of Hoffmann" had to be completed by somebody else Offenbach |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES $1600: In "The Beggar's Opera", "every night would kiss and play if with me you'd fondly stray" these 3 words "and far away" over the hills |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | "IT" ME $600: Vocal range of opera's Lawrence Tibbett baritone |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $1600: Born in New York, she moved with her family to Greece & was back for her Metropolitan Opera debut as Norma in 1956 Maria Callas |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | LET'S GO TO THE OPERA $400: operabase.com says this city led the world with 632 opera performances in 2017-18, many at the Bolshoi Moscow |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | LET'S GO TO THE OPERA $800: A big opera debut of 2017 was John Adams' (not Puccini's) "Girls" (not "Girl") "of the Golden" this West |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | LET'S GO TO THE OPERA $1200: Joan Sutherland used to really nail this character's big mad scene in Lammermoor Castle Lucia |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | LET'S GO TO THE OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): The waiting list for the annual Wagner Festival in this Bavarian city can be 10 years long Bayreuth |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | LET'S GO TO THE OPERA $2000: Tired of his native Italy, in 1824 this "Barber of Seville" composer moved to Paris, where he was rapturously received Rossini |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | PLAY TITLES IN THEIR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE $1600: Ionesco at the opera:
"La Cantatrice Chauve" The Bald Soprano |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | LET'S PUT ON A MUSICAL $400: We'll need a lot of people in the company to get a rousing performance of "Masquerade" from this Andrew Lloyd Webber show The Phantom of the Opera |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | TELL $800: The overture to this Italian composer's opera about William Tell is used to speed things up Rossini |
| #7989, aired 2019-05-09 | COUNTRIES' MUSIC $400: Jingju, or Beijing this music drama, is a popular Chinese form an opera |
| #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 |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | AN EPIC $600: This 1871 opera opens with a love triangle set against the backdrop of war between Ethiopia & Egypt Aida |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $1200: The soap opera "General Hospital" is set in this fictional city in New York state Port Charles |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | STAGE CRAFT $2000: The title character of this opera loves a man who serves in the U.S. Navy on the Abraham Lincoln Madame Butterfly |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | LITERARY ALLUSIONS $2000: A community that is a hotbed of sex & drama, like the title town in a novel, film & TV soap opera of the 1950s & '60s Peyton Place |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ITALIAN, STRESSING $800: This opera legend was known for pre-concert jitters, but once he got out there, he seemed fine Pavarotti |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | CLASSIC FILM $1600: 1930s comedy classics starring this zany trio include "A Day at the Races" & "A Night at the Opera" the Marx Brothers |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | SMALL SCREEN SHOW TUNES $1200: Vanessa Hudgens played Maureen when this musical based on a Puccini opera went live on Fox in 2019 Rent |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | ARTS & CULTURE $400: This composer's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premiered in 1790 Mozart |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | TV BY THE NUMBERS $200: Agnes Nixon created this soap opera that focused on the Buchanan & Lord families One Life to Live |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: This title temptress works at a cigarette factory in Seville Carmen |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: Rigoletto makes snide comments for a living, having this job in the Duke of Mantua's court jester |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $1200: Jemmy is the boy who has an apple shot off his head in this opera William Tell |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $2000: Brunnhilde is one of these 9 warrior daughters of Wotan whose famous ride begins Act III of their opera the Valkyries |
| #7928, aired 2019-02-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $5,000 (Daily Double): Susanna, Countess Almaviva's maid, is the bride in this opera The Marriage of Figaro |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | SORROW $1600: In some versions, Sorrow is the son of Pinkerton & this title Puccini opera heroine Madame Butterfly |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | EUGENE $1000: In a Russian opera, this title guy rejects Tatiana, kills a friend, then falls for & gets rejected by Tatiana Eugene Onegin |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | FRENCH MUSIC ABOUT SPAIN $1600: Massenet's opera about this medieval Spanish hero premiered in 1885 with "Le", not "El", in the title El Cid |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 5 "B"s OF CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This period of music that saw the first attempts at opera ended with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach Baroque |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | ON THE RADIO $200: One night in 1927, a DJ in this city said he's been playing grand opera & now was switching to the Grand Old Opry Nashville |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | CENTURY 19 REAL ESTATE LISTINGS $200: No phantoms under this Paris landmark that featured Helavy's "La Juive" in 1875! Make Second Empire your style! the opera |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA BY ARIA $200: "Desdemona! Che Veggo!" Othello |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA BY ARIA $400: "Elseneur, Une Salle Du Palais" Hamlet |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA BY ARIA $600: "The Doge's March" The Merchant of Venice |
| #7884, aired 2018-12-13 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA BY ARIA $800: "Vor Prosperos Zelle" The Tempest |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | BORN IN 1818 $1200: Composer Charles Gounod is known for his opera version of this devilish tale Faust |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | MUSIC $400: At the opéra de Paris, repetition means this; the "répétition générale" is the final dress one a rehearsal |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | THE ARTS $400: In an opera based on this Grimm fairy tale, the title siblings come upon a house made of gingerbread & start noshing "Hansel and Gretel" |
| #7861, aired 2018-11-12 | IN THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY $1600: Opera is a plural form of this 4-letter word opus |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $400: Opera singer Elisabeth Thible is the first woman on record to fly, in one of these in France in 1784 a hot air balloon |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | ON BROADWAY IN 2018 $1200: More than a mere apparition, this Hal Prince-directed classic celebrated 30 years on Broadway in January Phantom of the Opera |
| #7857, aired 2018-11-06 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $1200: In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct at this NYC opera house the Met |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $400: Verdi's "Falstaff" takes place in this town, where the title character has his eye on some merry wives Windsor |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $800: This composer said everyone called his work tedious & obscure but he loaded up "Carmen" with liveliness & melody (Georges) Bizet |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $1600: The score of this "Ring" opera with a "precious" title is so elaborate that it took Wagner from Feb. to Sept. 1854 to copy it out Rheingold |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1908 as he sang Canio at the Met in "Pagliacci", he wept real tears thinking of how his lover ran off with his chauffeur Caruso |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | OPERA $2000: Amahl plays the same tune on his pipe at the beginning & end, before & after he meets this title group the night visitors |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | I COMPOSED IT $800: The 1904 opera "Madama Butterfly" Puccini |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | I'M A HUGE FAN! $400: If you like Phish or this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, you are a "Phan" Phantom of the Opera |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | ARTS & CULTURE $400: Humperdinck's opera about these fairy-tale siblings was the first complete opera aired on radio Hansel and Gretel |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | "TEN"TERTAINMENT $1200: Tito Merrelli is an incapacitated opera star in the musical "Lend Me a" this a tenor |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | OPERA HEROINES $200: She & her brother push the witch into an oven, freeing all the children from their gingerbread state Gretel |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | OPERA HEROINES $400: She throws away Don Jose's ring & in a rage, Don Jose stabs her to death outside a bullring Carmen |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | OPERA HEROINES $600: After his arranged wedding to this 15-year-old Japanese girl, naval officer B.F. Pinkerton sails to America Madame Butterfly |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | OPERA HEROINES $800: In "La Boheme" this seamstress who suffers from tuberculosis tells Rodolfo that her real name is Lucia Mimi |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | OPERA HEROINES $1000: Joan Sutherland is seen here as the daughter of this military group in a Donizetti work a regiment |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TIME FOR OPERA $400: "The Girl of the Golden West":
this year that gave California gold rushers their nickname 1849 |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TIME FOR OPERA $800: 13th century Switzerland:
this opera, Rossini's last William Tell (or Wilhelm Tell) |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | TIME FOR OPERA $3,000 (Daily Double): At the Bigichungs' Hall, not around sunset but prior to the destruction of Valhalla:
this last part of the "Ring" cycle Götterdämmerung (or Twilight of the Gods) |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $2000: This Ann Patchett bestseller about opera & terrorism has been turned into a real opera Bel Canto |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | TITLES MADE METRIC $600: "Hedwig and the Angry 2.54 Centimeters" (rock opera) inch |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | SPEAK EASY $800: A song from this folk opera begins, "Summertime and the livin' is easy" Porgy and Bess |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | 21st CENTURY OPERAS $400: Julien Bilodeau adapted Pink Floyd's 1979 album into the 2017 opera "Another Brick in" this the Wall |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | 21st CENTURY OPERAS $1000: In a 2008 opera based on myth, Theseus is a baritone & this title monster of the maze is a bass the Minotaur |
| #7731, aired 2018-04-02 | THREE FOR THE MONEY $1000: The "Ballad Of Mack The Knife" was written in the 1920s for this "Opera" The Threepenny Opera |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME... $1,500 (Daily Double): In Rossini's opera "La Gazza Ladra", a maid is accused of stealing silver, but the real thief turns out to be this title bird a magpie |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | NEWS OF 2017 $800: Soprano Audrey Luna hit the note known as A above this, a first in Metropolitan Opera history high C |
| #7714, aired 2018-03-08 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: "La Vie Boheme" is a song from "Rent", which was based on this Puccini opera La Boheme |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | HAVE A GREAT ONE! $2000: Famous for its mad scene, this great Donizetti opera was based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott Lucia di Lammermoor |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $200: The longest running musical on Broadway, "The Phantom of the Opera" features a dramatic score by this composer
"Love me / That's all I ask of you..." Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $400: Act 2 opens at the opera house with a lavish masquerade ball to celebrate this festive winter night
"Masquerade / Every face a different shade / Masquerade..." New Year's Eve |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $600: 17 million people have seen Broadway's Phantom ferry Christine to his home under the streets of this city
"And in this labyrinth / Where night is blind..." Paris |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $800: The first African-American actor to play the Phantom on Broadway, Norm Lewis donned the mask to perform this iconic song
"Turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light..." "The Music Of The Night" |
| #7699, aired 2018-02-15 | THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA $1000: So far on Broadway, 22 actresses have played Christine, but this soprano originated the Broadway role
"Wishing you were somehow here again..." Sarah Brightman |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | STRINGING YOU ALONG $400: Since 1913 a theatre in Salzburg has presented opera & ballet performed by these, not humans marionette puppets |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | ANOTHER FINE MEZZO $1200: Orlofsky's a man, baby, played by a mezzo gal in this Strauss opera named for a flying mammal Die Fledermaus |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | ANOTHER FINE MEZZO $1600: First Secretary Nancy Tang is a fine part for a mezzo in this presidential opera Nixon in China |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | "I" LOVE OPERA $400: This role in "Otello" is a baritone Iago |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | "I" LOVE OPERA $800: Here are the leads in the original 1865 production of a Wagner opera; I believe the line is, "Me, Tristan, you" her Isolde |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | "I" LOVE OPERA $1200: This Italian synonym for interlude is the name of an opera Strauss based on his own life intermezzo |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | "I" LOVE OPERA $1600: Sir Arthur Sullivan composed operettas like "Iolanthe" but only one grand opera, this one based on a Walter Scott book Ivanhoe |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | MOZART $2,000 (Daily Double): Count Almaviva invites everyone to a wedding banquet at the end of Act III of this comic opera The Marriage of Figaro |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY $600: "The opera ain't over till" this the fat lady sings |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | PLAYING MIDDLE C $400: A division of an opera an act |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | EMMY, GRAMMY, OSCAR, TONY $800: Her credits include "Shameless" on TV & "The Phantom of the Opera" on film Emmy Rossum |
| #7628, aired 2017-11-08 | BROADWAY 2017 $1200: Revived in 2017 & set during the final days of the Vietnam War, "Miss Saigon" was inspired by this Puccini opera
"And hold me tight / And dance like it's the last night / Of the world..." Madame Butterfly |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $400: The image of this character from a 19th-century work has become a symbol for opera from the Romantic era Brünnhilde |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $1200: The following overture by this composer was first heard in 1790 Mozart |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $1600: Giovanni Rubini was a master of this effect similar to tremolo; it was cultivated to excess by his imitators vibrato |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $2000: Operas with subjects drawn from common life like "Pagliacci" were part of this "real life" 19th century movement verismo |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $4,000 (Daily Double): Don Jose is the jilted military man who kills the title character in this opera Carmen |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | AVENGERS $400: In her quest for vengeance in a Donizetti opera, Lucrezia of this last name ends up poisoning her son Borgia |
| #7620, aired 2017-10-27 | 1970s ALBUMS $2000: Queen followed up "A Night at the Opera" with this 1976 album, also the title of a Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | SWEET '16 $800: This opera heard here had its premiere in 1816 The Barber of Seville |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | THE NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY $1600: His opera "Treemonisha ", whose overture is heard here, joined some of his ragtime compositions on the registry (Scott) Joplin |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | AT THE OPERA $400: Act I of a Mozart opera begins with this character fleeing the home of Donna Anna after trying to seduce her Don Giovanni |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | AT THE OPERA $800: With a river in its title, this first opera of the "Ring" cycle features Flosshilde & 2 other river maidens Das Rheingold |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | AT THE OPERA $1200: We hope you don't sleep through this Reginald de Koven folk opera based on an American story from 1820 Rip Van Winkle |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | AT THE OPERA $1600: (I am Placido Domingo.) The Duke of Mantua sings one of the most famous arias of all time in this opera named for a hunchbacked court jester
"La donna è mobile / Qual piuma al vento / Muta d'accento..." Rigoletto |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | AT THE OPERA $2000: In the opera "Boris Godunov", Fyodor is the real son of the czar & Grigory is this "false" character the false Dimitri |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | "O" YES, OPERA! $400: Rossini operized this Shakespeare play about a jealous lover Othello |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | "O" YES, OPERA! $800: Citrus growers competed to advertise at the premiere of "The Love for Three" these For the Love of Three Oranges |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | "O" YES, OPERA! $1200: A comic operetta by Offenbach tells the story of this hero of myth "in the Underworld" Orpheus |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | "O" YES, OPERA! $1600: In 1727 Vivaldi made this man "Furioso" Orlando |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | "O" YES, OPERA! $2000: Oh boy! The title role in Verdi's first opera is an Italian count who shares his name with this sausage & jerky maker Oberto |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | THE WORKS OF VICTOR HUGO $600: Hugo's only opera libretto was for "La Esmeralda," based on this novel of his The Hunchback of Notre-Dame |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | SPEAKING GERMAN $1,000 (Daily Double): Your knowledge of opera might help with this one: it's the German word for "bat" (the flying kind) Fledermaus |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | BROADWAY COMPOSERS $400: "Love Never Dies", Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to this show, moves the action from Paris to Coney Island Phantom of the Opera |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | AT THE OPERA $400: Mozart would live just 2 months after this "Magic" work premiered Sept. 30, 1791 The Magic Flute |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | AT THE OPERA $800: Vasek, a ninny, is the intended groom, but this Smetana title character has other ideas The Bartered Bride |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | AT THE OPERA $1200: The "March of the Toreadors" from this opera is heard here Carmen |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | AT THE OPERA $1600: After Mussorgsky died, this friend with a hyphenated name revised the orchestration for his "Boris Godunov" Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | AT THE OPERA $2000: (I'm Mario Andretti.) Most people aren't aware that I'm an opera lover & can sing several complete arias; I was about 10 when I saw my first opera--this one by Verdi in which the dying Violetta sings "Gran Dio! Morir si giovine" La traviata |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1000: 3 African-American women were in the first class of 1973: Mary Bethune, Harriet Tubman & this opera singer Marian Anderson |
| #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 |
| #7539, aired 2017-05-25 | BARBRA STREISAND DUETS $800: Barbra & Michael Crawford recorded a rendition of "The Music Of The Night" from this musical Phantom of the Opera |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $600: Last name of Floria, the bold & beautiful title diva in an opera by Puccini Tosca |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | RUSSIAN CULTURE $1600: Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" features this famous piece heard here Flight of the Bumblebee |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: In 2011's "The Enchanted Island", Plácido Domingo gave a bravura turn as this Roman sea god backed by floating mermaids Neptune |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $800: The company goes at it quite literally with hammer & tongs in this rousing piece from "Il trovatore" the "Anvil Chorus" |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1200: Rodolfo, Mimi & Marcello are gathered at the Café Momus when Musetta sings her own praises in this Paris-set opera La bohème |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1600: This title gypsy makes her entrance to the "Habanera", one of the most famous arias in all of opera Carmen |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $2000: This composer was adamant that his "La traviata" be set in the present in modern dress, as the Met's current staging is Giuseppe Verdi |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES $200: The lowest grade of nobility; the "Red" one became an international figure in his own right baron |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES $400: It's the highest rank of a nation's diplomatic official sent to live abroad as a representative ambassador |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES $600: A nice job title if you can get it; in 2016 Brunei was on its 29th a sultan |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES $800: If Otto von Bismarck were alive, he could use this prefix he got in 1871 chancellor |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES $1000: Above a earl but below a duke, it is often heard when referring to boxing rules-- watch your pronunciation! a marquess |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | SPEAKING ITALIAN $2000: The opera "Pagliacci" appropriately ends, "La commedia è" this word finita |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA $400: Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" tells the same story as this play Romeo and Juliet |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA $800: Operas with him as the main character include "At the Boar's Head" by Holst & "Sir John in Love" by Vaughan Williams Falstaff |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA $1200: Edmund Spenser's famous poem has the same title as this Henry Purcell opera based on "A Midsummer Night's Dream" The Faerie Queene |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA $1600: This Italian composer's opera "Macbeth" from 1847 features the aria "There's Still A Spot There" Verdi |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA $2000: This 19th c. French Romantic composer wrote many Shakespearean works, including the opera "Beatrice et Benedict" Hector Berlioz |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS $400: In a 1910 novel a young singer named Christine Daae is the heart's desire of this maniacal title character the Phantom of the Opera |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | JACK $600: In 1998 at Lincoln Center, John McDonough was a lumberjack & he was OK as this opera title role & folklore legend Paul Bunyan |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1966 Jorn Utzon quit the opera house project designed for this city but today, that's his legacy Sydney |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: After Bizet's death at age 36, Ernest Guiraud assembled 2 instrumental suites from this opera Carmen |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Mendelssohn's "Calm Sea And Prosperous Voyage" is a concert one--not before an opera but standing alone an overture |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $400: This classic by Maurice Sendak was turned into a 1980 opera Where the Wild Things Are |
| #7452, aired 2017-01-24 | SAY IT IN ITALIAN $1000: The 3-word name of this Mozart opera can be translated as "Thus do they all" Così fan tutte |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | SQUAD GOALS $200: All get onstage together in "Gotter-dammerung", the last opera in this cycle the Ring Cycle |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT OPERA HOUSE? $200: Teatro Real, like a nearby soccer club Madrid |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT OPERA HOUSE? $400: La Scala Milan |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT OPERA HOUSE? $600: The Staatsoper, once helmed by Gustav Mahler & Richard Strauss Vienna |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT OPERA HOUSE? $800: The Croatian National Theatre--this capital Zagreb |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | WHERE'S THAT OPERA HOUSE? $1000: Festspielhaus, in this double-talk town Baden-Baden |
| #7432, aired 2016-12-27 | WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? $800: On Oct. 9, 1986 in London Michael Crawford first donned the mask to play this role the Phantom of the Opera |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $800: This novelist wrote the libretto for "Margaret Garner", an opera based on the same story that inspired "Beloved" Toni Morrison |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1-CONSONANT WORDS $400: Oho! It's an opera solo an aria |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN $200: In Ambroise Thomas' opera version, you'll need a mezzo-soprano to play this queen & mother of Hamlet Gertrude |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE SOPRANOS $1200: Born in Laurel, Mississippi, she broke ground as one of the first African Americans to achieve world fame in opera Leontyne Price |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE SOPRANOS $2000: This Down Under diva with a Maori name had an over 30-year career on the opera stage Kiri Te Kanawa |
| #7381, aired 2016-10-17 | PEACH! PEACH! $1600: Escoffier created a peach & ice cream dessert in honor of this Aussie opera singer (Nellie) Melba |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | TV THEMES $600: This soap opera has used "Nadia's Theme" as its main theme since it debuted in the 1970s The Young and the Restless |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | WHAT A TV CHARACTER! $400: From 1970 to 2011 "All My Children" sizzled with Susan Lucci as this character Erica Kane |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | THE ____ OF ____ $1000: A character in this comic opera boasts, "I am the very model of a modern major-general" The Pirates of Penzance |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | CITY BOOKS $400: The 1910 novel "The Phantom of the Opera" is set in this city Paris |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | OPERATIC ADJECTIVES $600: A comic opera by Smetana:
"The ____ Bride" Bartered |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD $1000: A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this "Row" in the opera "Porgy & Bess" Catfish Row |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | LIT-POURRI $2,000 (Daily Double): The opera "Les Troyens", or "The Trojans", by Berlioz was based on this ancient Roman epic the Aeneid |
| #7338, aired 2016-07-06 | DEATH IN VENICE $1200: The early opera composer Monteverdi was music director at this cathedral in Venice from 1613 to his death in 1643 Saint Marco's (Saint Mark's) |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | FRENCH ARTS & CULTURE $2000: "Manon" is probably the best-known opera by this composer whose last name also starts with "MA" Massenet |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | OPERA $400: "Das Rheingold" is the first opera in his "Ring" cycle Wagner |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | OPERA $800: Tchaikovsky composed an opera about her based on Schiller's drama "Die Jungfrau von Orleans" Joan of Arc |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | OPERA $1200: (Alex reads from the Metropolitan Opera.) Although he was Hungarian, Franz Lehée set his operetta, "The Merry Widow", in this city in 1905; one of the settings is the Art-Nouveau restaurant Maxim's Paris |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | OPERA $1600: Goro is the marriage broker who arranges a wedding for Cio-Cio-San in this opera Madame Butterfly |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | OPERA $2000: (Alex reads from the Metropolitan Opera.) American composer John Adams broke new ground by using a recent event as the subject for an opera, this title man's historic 1972 visit to China Nixon |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | GOING ____ ON CLASSICAL MUSIC $600: In 1951 TV viewers got an opera, "Amahl and the ____ Visitors" Night |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $400: 1988:
As the Phantom in "Phantom of the Opera" Michael Crawford |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | "LIB"ERAL $2000: Term for the words to an opera; Venetian poet Lorenzo da Ponte wrote the one for Mozart's "Don Giovanni" a libretto |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | OPERATIC SETTINGS $800: Seen here is a 19th-century set for a production of this Verdi opera Aida |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | OPERATIC SETTINGS $1200: Adapted from Dostoyevsky, a 1929 opera about this title person is set in imaginary Roulettenberg the Gambler |
| #7292, aired 2016-05-03 | OPERATIC SETTINGS $2000: Act 3 of the Saint-Saens opera about this title duo finds one of them blinded & shorn in a Gaza prison Samson & Delilah |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | 1816 $1200: This man's opera "The Barber of Seville" premiered in Rome Rossini |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SYDNEY $800: The Sydney Opera House is on the harbor; the shells of its roof are known by this nautical name sails |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | LITERARY MISCELLANIES $200: Bentley's Miscellany presented "Oliver Twist" in installments as part of this, just like a soap opera a serial |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | FICTIONAL HUNCHBACKS $1600: In a Verdi opera, this hunchback jester vows to kill the Duke of Mantua but his daughter Gilda is killed instead Rigoletto |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | TUBA $200: Wagner tubas were built especially for this 4-opera cycle Ring |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | AUDRA McDONALD ON BROADWAY $400: (Audra McDonald presents the clue.) "Master Class" by Terrence McNally was inspired by a series of classes given at Juilliard by this Greek-American opera diva Maria Callas |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | OPERA AT THE MET $400: (I'm Sondra Radvanovsky.) For the Metropolitan Opera's 2015-16 season, I'm playing all 3 queens in Donizetti's Tudor trilogy: Anne Boleyn, Mary Stuart & this 16th century queen Queen Elizabeth I |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | OPERA AT THE MET $800: Wagner's opera about him & Isolde made its U.S. debut at the Met Tristan |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | OPERA AT THE MET $1200: (I'm Placido Domingo.) The role I've performed the most at the Met--40 times since 1979--is this title one that Verdi based on a tragedy by Shakespeare Otello |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | OPERA AT THE MET $1600: The Met opened in 1883 with this devilish Gounod opera based on Goethe's play Faust |
| #7264, aired 2016-03-24 | OPERA AT THE MET $2000: In 1923 the Met put the overture of this Swiss-set opera before Act II so latecomers wouldn't miss it William Tell |
| #7263, aired 2016-03-23 | SINGING $1,000 (Daily Double): The primo uomo is the lead male singer in an opera; this is the lead female singer prima donna |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | IT'S HYPHENATED $800: Opera star Elina Garanca sings in this vocal range mezzo-soprano |
| #7252, aired 2016-03-08 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $2000: To become director of the Vienna court opera in 1897, this Austrian converted from Judaism to Catholicism (Gustav) Mahler |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | A GOOD VIEW AT THE OPERA $400: See the Gypsies hammer out their wares blacksmith-style in this chorus from "Il trovatore" "The Anvil Chorus" |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | A GOOD VIEW AT THE OPERA $800: 2-word term for this essential that should bring the action on stage into focus opera glasses |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | A GOOD VIEW AT THE OPERA $1200: Built in 1869, the State Opera House in this city reached its peak under the directorship of Gustav Mahler from 1897 to 1907 Vienna |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | A GOOD VIEW AT THE OPERA $1600: The last name taken by this dame was derived from her Down Under hometown Dame Nellie Melba |
| #7240, aired 2016-02-19 | A GOOD VIEW AT THE OPERA $2000: Keep an eye out for the swan-drawn boat of this Wagnerian hero Lohengrin |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Marian Anderson made history in 1954 by signing a contract with this New York performing arts organization the Metropolitan Opera |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | MUSIC $1600: Amilcare Ponchielli is known for this opera, also an alternative title for the "Mona Lisa" La Gioconda (La Gioconde accepted) |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | CLASSICAL MUSIC VENUES $400: This Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a 1910 novel is set in the Paris Opera House The Phantom of the Opera |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | RUSSIAN RULERS $1000: Featured in a Mussorgsky opera, he warred against Sweden in the 1590s to gain access to the Baltic Boris Godunov |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | CLASSICAL MUSIC VENUES $1,600 (Daily Double): One of the most photographed buildings in the world, it sits on Port Jackson's Bennelong Point the Sydney Opera House |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | "SANTA" GOES AROUND THE WORLD $800: A California county, an ex-NBC soap opera, or a Philippine municipality near the Jaro River Santa Barbara |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Verdi couldn't get into the Milan conservatory, but his opera "Oberto" was produced at this Milan site in 1839 La Scala |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | MOVIE ROMANCES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Lincoln Center in New York.) Cher meets Nicolas Cage by the fountain at Lincoln Center, honoring a promise to go to the opera with him in this romantic comedy Moonstruck |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $200: The stage at the Metropolitan Opera is very big; no problem--with hundreds on stage & spectacular sets of the gates of Thebes, the Met's production of this opera is grand in both scope & scale Aida |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: In a small garret apartment, Rodolfo & Mimi sing a duet declaring their love for each other in this opera La bohème |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $600: Wotan strips Brunnhilde of her divinity & puts her into a magic sleep on the Met's state-of-the-art set for "Die Walkure", part of this composer's Ring Cycle Wagner |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $800: The Metropolitan Opera brought the splendor of ancient China to its stage with this Puccini opera about a princess of Peking Turandot |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1000: One of the greatest pieces for a baritone is the "Largo al factotum", a patter song that Figaro delivers with bravura as he enters this opera The Barber of Seville |
| #7170, aired 2015-11-13 | THIS SHOULD BE "EZ"! $1000: Italian term for the short, light entertainment between the acts of an opera intermezzo |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | "L" OF A CATEGORY $2000: It's a melodic phrase associated with one character in an opera a leitmotif |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | COSTUMES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: (Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) From Donizetti's "Anna Bolena", I'm decked out now as this royal spouse Henry VIII |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | COSTUMES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) Oh, what fun--I get to clown around in the actual costume worn by this great tenor in some of his more than 100 performances in "I Pagliacci" here at the Met in the early 20th century Enrico Caruso |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | COSTUMES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1,000 (Daily Double): (Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The Imperial Commissioner is the one who reads the marriage agreement of Cio-Cio-San & Lieutenant Pinkerton in Act I of this opera Madame Butterfly |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | COSTUMES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1200: (Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) I'm wearing a consiglieri's costume from "Simon Boccanegra"; it's a rather somber opera by this composer of "La traviata" Giuseppe Verdi |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | COSTUMES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1600: (Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) Aren't I quite the devil in this character's costume from "The Damnation of Faust"? Mephistopheles |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | FRENCH LITERATURE $800: In Chapter I of this Gaston Leroux novel, we learn of a private box in the theatre always reserved for the title figure Phantom of the Opera |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | 20th CENTURY COMPOSERS $800: In 1911 this "King of Ragtime" completed "Treemonisha", an opera set during Reconstruction (Scott) Joplin |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | "B"OOKS $600: The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing Bel Canto |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | PUBLIC DOMAIN RINGTONES $800: For immigrants from Italy, this 19th c. song stirred up nostalgia for the homeland "’O sole mio" |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | WORLD OF BOOKS $1600: "The Queen of Spades" was dealt by this great Alexander & later inspired an opera by Tchaikovsky Alexander Pushkin |
| #7122, aired 2015-07-28 | 5, 5 $2,000 (Daily Double): Milan's La Scala is this type of place an opera house |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | A WORLD OF ART $400: In the 1970s Australian artist John Olsen painted "Salute to Five Bells", a mural for this Sydney landmark the Sydney Opera House |
| #7058, aired 2015-04-29 | AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PERFERRED PLURALS $2000: Opus opera |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | 5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES $800: Population 1.8 million, it's home to the National Opera & Ballet Theater of Belarus Minsk |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | FRENCH COMPOSERS $800: Georges Bizet died at 36, just 3 months after the initial failure of this opera Carmen |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | & NOW THIS UPDATE $800: The Jonathan Larson musical "Rent" is largely based on this 1896 opera La Boheme |
| #7027, aired 2015-03-17 | STAR-CHITECTS $400: In 2007 this Down Under landmark designed by Jorn Utzon became a UNESCO World Heritage Site the Sydney Opera House |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THE LONDON STAGE $400: This musical opened in 1986 with Michael Crawford & Sarah Brightman in the lead roles, & it's still going strong Phantom of the Opera |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | "SO" IT GOES $200: This 2-word term for an entertainment serial first appeared in Newsweek in 1939 soap opera |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS $200: Carl Heinrich Graun's "Montezuma" Mexico |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS $400: Verdi's "Aida" Egypt |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS $600: Giacomo Meyerbeer's "The Huguenots" France |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS $800: Jacques Offenbach's "Die Rheinnixen" Germany |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS $1000: Puccini's "Turandot" China |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | THE BLACK LIST $2000: This alliterative "Threepenny Opera" Man dodged the blacklist by fleeing to his native Europe Bertolt Brecht |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: This Verdi opera was inspired by a plot from French Egyptologist August Mariette Aida |
| #7002, aired 2015-02-10 | ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS $2000: One of the main characters in the opera "Rigoletto" is the duke of this city Mantua |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THAT WOMAN CAN SING! $800: Those women can sing! The mom of this "Vision of Love" '90s superstar performed with the NYC Opera Mariah Carey |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | THE WHO $800: The Who performed this musical in its entirety only a few times, including June 6, 1970 at the Metropolitan Opera Tommy |
| #6980, aired 2015-01-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC... ON BANJO! $800: "Carmen" get this Frenchman who brought the opera to live in 1875 Bizet |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | ALEXANDER THE GREAT COMPOSER $2000: His often played "Polovtsian Dances" were written for Act II of his opera "Prince Igor" Alexander Borodin |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | DINNER & A BROADWAY SHOW $400: There's no masking the fact that Hal Prince directed the 1988 Broadway opening of this musical The Phantom of the Opera |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | OPERA $200: In "Il trovatore", Leonora kills herself with poison concealed in this piece of jewelry a ring |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | OPERA $400: It's the title occupation of the baritone heard here barber |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | OPERA $600: This Puccini opera is set in an attic apartment & at the Cafe Momus in Paris' Latin Quarter La bohème |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | OPERA $800: In Act One this tempestuous heroine has a fight with another woman from the tobacco factory Carmen |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | OPERA $1000: This knight reveals that he comes from Montsalvat, where his father, Parzifal, is king of the Holy Grail Lohengrin |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $400: This Wagnerian dude tells Wotan he's forged the sword, killed the dragon & taken the gold Siegfried |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $800: In a Benjamin Britten opera, Claggart uses Corporal Squeak to spy on this title sailor Billy Budd |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $1200: In "Die Fledermaus" Frosch the jailer comically has problems keeping Alfred from doing this in his cell singing |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $1600: Given names Benjamin Franklin, he arranges for a marriage with a geisha in a 1904 opera (Lieutenant) Pinkerton |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $2000: When she disguises herself as a man, Leonore takes this name; now she & hubby Florestan have matching monograms Fidelio |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | EARS TO CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Naturally, the flute plays a part in the opera overture heard here by this man Mozart |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | EARS TO CLASSICAL MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): What a ride! In 1856 Wagner finished this opera, unwittingly adding his work to numerous future movie soundtracks The Valkyries |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER $1000: In 2014 "The Star-Spangled Banner" was sung for the first time by an opera singer, this soprano Renée Fleming |
| #6900, aired 2014-09-19 | MUSIC TERMS $2000: Rossini was a well-known composer of the type of comic opera known as opera this 5-letter word buffa |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | OPERA TUNES $400: This nuptial tune from "Lohengrin" does have words: "Guided in faith, enter within, where the blessing of love may attend" the "Wedding March" |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | OPERA TUNES $800: "O Colombina, the tender, faithful Harlequin is near" is from this clownish opera Pagliacci |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | OPERA TUNES $1200: The Highlanders sing "Qual rapido torrente" in "La donna del lago", based on this Water Scott Poem The Lady of the Lake |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | OPERA TUNES $1600: This waltz master wrote a Czardas in "Die Fledermaus", where Rosalinde has to pretend she's Hungarian (Johann) Strauss |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | OPERA TUNES $2000: "Vissi d'arte" (I lived for art") from this composer's "Tosca" is a test of a soprano's own artistry Puccini |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | THE FEMALE PERSUASION $1000: In an opera, her dance of the 7 veils is enough to persuade Herod to remove a guy's head Salome |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: 1842's "Nabucco" launched this composer as a giant of Italian opera Verdi |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | LANDMARKS $1000: A series of white sail-shaped shells serve as the roof of this venue the Sydney Opera House |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BENS & JERRYS $1200: An opera based on his TV talk show debuted in London in 2003 Jerry Springer |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: This slave girl & her mistress Amneris are both in love with Radames, a captain in the Egyptian Army Aida |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: 14 guardian angels descend a ladder to protect this brother & sister in the woods Hansel & Gretel |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $1600: This court jester arranges to have the Duke of Mantua killed, but his own daughter Gilda switches places & is killed instead Rigoletto |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $2000: Despite his wife's pleas not to do so, this prince attacks the Polovtsi, a Tartar tribe, & is promptly captured Igor |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | OPERA CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): While reading fortunes in a pack of cards, she sees death for herself & her lover Don Jose Carmen |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | BODACIOUS CANTATAS $2000: This German was only 1 opera into his career when he wrote a New Year's cantata to welcome 1835 Richard Wagner |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | THE MUSEUMS OF EUROPE $2000: The museum of this opera house was begun when 7 prominent Milan citizens bought the theater collection of Giulio Sambon La Scala |
| #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 |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | OPERA $400: "The Marriage of" this man is to Susanna, the countess' maid Figaro |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | OPERA $800: The English title of "Gotter-Dammerung" is this time of day "of the Gods" the Twilight |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | OPERA $1200: This Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s Madame Butterfly |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | OPERA $1600: He composed "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", which contains "The Flight Of The Bumblebee" Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | OPERA $2000: The daughter of the high priest of the Druids is the title character of this Bellini opera Norma |
| #6812, aired 2014-04-08 | OVER THE "P.A." $1600: What do you call it when Ed gets up on stage & dances with a mongoose puppet to opera? This term dating to the 1970s performance art |
| #6794, aired 2014-03-13 | FRENCH LIT $400: Gaston Leroux had this title character haunting a Paris opera house the Phantom of the Opera |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | IT ALWAYS HAPPENS IN "THREE"S $1000: This Kurt Weill musical drama was produced in German as "Die Dreigroschenoper" in 1928 The Threepenny Opera |
| #6771, aired 2014-02-10 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: At age 37, Rossini wrote his last opera--this one about an archer William Tell |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $400: We're not neutral about "Un ballo in maschera", about the assassination of a king of this Scandinavian country Sweden |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $800: Smitten by Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner composed this lovey-dovey 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $1200: In an 1893 opera, Lescaut seems to have no first name, but this sister of his does Manon |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $1600: One of the many composers to write a "Faust" opera, he was buddies with Bizet Gounod |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $2000: Like its heroine, "The Italian Girl in Algiers" did some traveling as this composer's first opera staged in France & Germany Rossini |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $800: Bizet based this opera about a tempestuous gypsy girl on a novella by Prosper Merimee Carmen |
| #6751, aired 2014-01-13 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE $2000: Massenet's tragic opera "Werther" was based on this longer-titled 18th century coming-of-age novel by Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther |
| #6746, aired 2014-01-06 | MEYER TO NAUVOO $600: In this comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan, the Emperor's son, Nanki-Poo, poses as a minstrel Mikado |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | NAME THAT FOOD! $1600: Last name of the opera singer for whom the French Chef Escoffier created a "peach" dessert in the late 1800s (Nellie) Melba |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | OPERA MOMS $400: In a Mozart opera, the Queen of the Night asks Tamino to rescue her child & he is given this musical instrument to aid him The Magic Flute |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | OPERA MOMS $800: Near the end of this Puccini opera, a mother sings a lullaby to her son with her maid Suzuki in attendance Madama Butterfly |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | OPERA MOMS $1200: This Cherubini enchantress fumes when hubby Jason doesn't let her see the kids Medea |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | OPERA MOMS $2000: In this "numeric" opera, Jonathan Peachum's wife reveals that Macheath is their daughter's beau--thanks, mom! The Threepenny Opera |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | OPERA MOMS $2,400 (Daily Double): Hata & Ludmila are 2 moms who deal with the marriage broker Kecal in this Smetana opera The Bartered Bride |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | BLOGS $400: With sections devoted to "OLTL" & "B&B", Daytime Confidential is loaded with news about this type of show soap opera |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | RUSSIAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: The libretto for this composer's 1890 opera "The Queen of Spades" is by his playwright brother Modest Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | AWED WORDS $1600: I kneel before this Broadway theatre where "The Phantom of the Opera" has been playing since 1988 the Majestic |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | WHO PLAYED THE SNL CHARACTER? $1600: Cajun Man & Opera Man Sandler |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | FRONT TO BACK, BACK TO FRONT $1200: Distinguished female opera singer & enthusiastic diva & avid |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | LET'S ALL CHANT $1,500 (Daily Double): Priests chant the name of the god Ptah in the last scene of this opera Aida |
| #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 |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | U.S. LANDMARKS $1000: In the fall of 2013, this striking building that's home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrated its 10th birthday Disney Hall |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $400: It's said Gilbert was inspired to write the libretto to this opera after a Japanese sword fell off the wall of his study Mikado |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $800: In this opera Frederic is to be an apprentice pilot, but his nursemaid mishears & he begins a totally different career The Pirates of Penzance |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $1200: To prepare for this opera, Gilbert & Sullivan toured the deck of HMS Victory in 1878, taking copious notes HMS Pinafore |
| #6695, aired 2013-10-25 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $1600: W.S. Gilbert wrote that this opera set in the Tower of London was "the best thing we have done" The Yeomen of the Guard |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | HO CHI MINH CITY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Built in the 1890s, Ho Chi Minh City's opera house is an outstanding example of the elegant architecture called French this French Colonial |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | HATS ALL, FOLKS $400: An opera hat is collapsible & made of dull silk, but you're puttin' on this tall hat, made of shiny silk with a narrow brim a top hat |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | LIFE IS A SOAP OPERA $200: Take me down to Genoa City, where the grass is green & the girls are pretty on this show, 40 years "young" in 2013 The Young & The Restless |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | LIFE IS A SOAP OPERA $400: Like sands through the hourglass, so goes this drama & Alison Sweeney, too; she's been on the show for 20 years Days of Our Lives |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | LIFE IS A SOAP OPERA $600: It was "Another World" for this actor as Dr. Canard in 1984, the same year he began playing Dr. Crane at night Kelsey Grammer |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | LIFE IS A SOAP OPERA $800: From 1974 to 1976 he needed to be "Superman" on "Love of Life" as Ben, who loved life so much he had 2 wives at once! Christopher Reeve |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | LIFE IS A SOAP OPERA $1000: Show with Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery All My Children |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | ARIAS $400: "Asile Hereditaire" in this Rossini opera is sung by a Swiss patriot remembering his father's slaying by Austrians Wilhelm Tell |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | REALITY CHECKS $1000: David Hasselhoff helped put $1 mil. in the pocket of insurance salesman/opera singer Neal Boyd on this show America's Got Talent |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $1600: Having survived the storms of 1900 and 1915, the grand 1894 opera house of this seaport in Texas still puts on shows year-round Galveston |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $2000: Christine Daae & Meg Giry:
"Angel Of Music" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $600: (Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano delivers the clue.) I'm a big fan of Puccini arias, like "Yes, They Call Me Mimi" in this opera La bohème |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | UNDERWEAR $1000: A garment that combines a bra & a girdle is called a merry this, like a Lehar opera a merry widow |
| #6630, aired 2013-06-14 | HAVING FUN AROUND THE WORLD $600: Enjoying a musical performance at this venue the Sydney Opera House |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | THEATER $3,000 (Daily Double): This Jonathan Larson musical was loosely based on the opera "La Boheme" Rent |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | IT'S MAY $400: This opera premiered on May 1, 1786 & audiences thought it was a "marriage" made in heaven The Marriage of Figaro |
| #6604, aired 2013-05-09 | COMPOSERS & THEIR MUSIC $1200: Even when poor, this 19th century opera composer made sure to dress exquisitely Richard Wagner |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | OPERA $400: Wild animals lie down at Tamino's feet when he plays the title instrument in Act I of this Mozart opera The Magic Flute |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | OPERA $1200: Canio has the tears of a clown in this opera in which he must make others laugh while his heart is breaking Pagliacci |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | OPERA $1,400 (Daily Double): In operas by Richard Wagner, Brunnhilde is one of these 9 sisters who are warrior-maidens the valkyries |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | OPERA $1600: (Placido Domingo presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera.) On this stage as Cavaradossi, I sang farewell to Tosca in an opera by this composer (Giacomo) Puccini |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | OPERA $2000: The title of this Verdi opera is often translated as "the fallen woman", referring to Violetta La Traviata |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | EX-PATS $400: A "phantom" in this Tony-winning actor's past is his birth name, Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith (Michael) Crawford |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | THAT 1870s SHOW $400: "Yn Wyneb Y Nef" is one of the songs from 1878's "Blodwen", thought to be the first opera in this language Welsh |
| #6552, aired 2013-02-26 | THAT 1870s SHOW $1000: This city just northeast of Nuremberg got on the opera map with the 1876 premiere of the full "Ring" cycle Bayreuth |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | EASEL DOWN THE ROAD $800: Camille Pissarro showed this city in his painting detailing the Avenue de l'Opéra Paris |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | LANDMARKS $1200: Jorn Utzon called this Australian landmark that he designed "a beautiful white shimmering thing" the Sydney Opera House |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | 1960s BLACK AMERICA $2000: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) In 1966, the new Metropolitan Opera House opened here at Lincoln Center with a world premiere featuring this African-American diva as Cleopatra Leontyne Price |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | "SO" BE IT $1200: "General Hospital" or "As the World Turns" a soap opera |
| #6536, aired 2013-02-04 | FROM THE TOP $2000: The aria "Quando m'en vo" from this Puccini opera about lovers in poverty La bohème |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | I'M DYING HERE! $1000: In 1901 Verdi closed the score in this city that's home to La Scala opera house Milan |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ORIGINAL OPERA TITLES $200: Rossini: "Guillaume Tell" William Tell |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ORIGINAL OPERA TITLES $400: Mozart: "Le Nozze di Figaro " The Marriage of Figaro |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ORIGINAL OPERA TITLES $600: Offenbach: "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" The Tales of Hoffmann |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ORIGINAL OPERA TITLES $800: Wagner: " Gotter-dammerung " Twilight of the Gods |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | ORIGINAL OPERA TITLES $1000: Puccini: "La Fanciulla del West" Girl of the Golden West |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | THE CHRISTMAS TREE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Metropolitan Opera Christmas tree at Lincoln Center in New York.) In 1882, the first Christmas tree with electric lights was set up by Edward Johnson, an engineer & vice president of this man's Electric Company (Thomas) Edison |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | THE CHRISTMAS TREE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Metropolitan Opera Christmas tree at Lincoln Center in New York.) One of the groups that helped make the Christmas tree a tradition in the U.S. were these German mercenaries the Hessians |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | COMPOSERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) A silver rose is central to the action in "Der Rosenkavalier" by this composer Richard Strauss |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PAGE 1004 $1000: Heard here is an example of one of these, a short melodic passage in an opera associated with one character a leitmotif |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $400: The character of Beckmesser in this composer's "Die Meistersinger" is a caricature of music critics Wagner |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $800: Beppe, a harlequin, is a character in this 1892 opera Pagliacci |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $1200: The land on which this London "Garden" opera house sits was once part of a monastery Covent Garden |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $1600: The only opera this Finn ever composed was "The Maiden in the Tower" (Jean) Sibelius |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY $2000: Characters in this operetta include captain Richard Warrington & Marietta d'Altena Naughty Marietta |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The Met archives include wardrobe from the 1890s, including the Mephistopheles costume from this Gounod work Faust |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) I'm in the bullring, site of the dramatic & fatal final scene in the Met's production of this 1875 opera Carmen |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) As the duke, Luciano Pavarotti thrilled Met audiences with the aria "La donna e mobile", which is so catchy that Verdi kept it out of rehearsals for this opera, so that it wouldn't become known before opening night Rigoletto |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) It's no surprise to see a stagecoach in this opera that Puccini was inspired to write during a visit to the U.S. Girl of the Golden West (La fanciulla) |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $1,400 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) In 1955, the Met made history with the debuts of its first African-American singers; the first man was Bobby McFerrin's father Robert & the first woman was this great contralto of the day Marian Anderson |
| #6425, aired 2012-07-20 | STREET SMARTS $1600: The city of Salford, near Manchester, has the real street that inspired this British soap opera Coronation Street |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | OPUS & OPERA $400: This meanie in "Hansel and Gretel" was written for a mezzo-soprano but is sometimes sung by a tenor the witch |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | OPUS & OPERA $800: These are repetitions of a theme with changes; Paganini's Opus 9 is these on "God Save the King" variations |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | OPUS & OPERA $1200: His sole opera, "Fidelio", tells a tale of a young woman disguising herself as a boy Beethoven |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | OPUS & OPERA $1600: It's the title of Elgar's Opus 78 & of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, opus no. unknown, featuring actors on roller skates Starlight Express |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | OPUS & OPERA $2,500 (Daily Double): His Opus 68 is "From the Bohemian Forest", composed around 1883 Antonin Dvorak |
| #6420, aired 2012-07-13 | FAMOUS ARIAS $800: Mephistopheles sings in praise of the Golden Calf in this Gounod opera Faust |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | "F"-STOPS $200: Italian word for the last piece of an opera or concert finale |
| #6409, aired 2012-06-28 | THIS & THAT $1000: Richard Wagner adapted a story by Heinrich Heine to create this nautical opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | A "LA" CARTE $400: The musical "Rent" was loosely based on this Puccini opera La boheme |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | OPERA LOVERS $400: After she declares her love for a toreador named Escamillo, she is stabbed to death by Don Jose Carmen |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Hi, I'm Kyra Sedgwick.) I made my professional debut on "Another World", so I have extra appreciation for this farce in which Dustin Hoffman goes to great lengths to land a part on a soap opera Tootsie |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | OPERA LOVERS $800: "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" & "Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way" are arias in the opera about this title couple Porgy & Bess |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | OPERA LOVERS $1200: At the end of a Berlioz opera inspired by Shakespeare, she & Benedict admit their love for one another Beatrice |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | OPERA LOVERS $1600: It's love at first sight for Sophie & Octavian in this "Knight Of The Rose" opera Der Rosenkavalier |
| #6400, aired 2012-06-15 | OPERA LOVERS $2000: In a Gluck opera with the help of the love god Amor, Orfeo attempts to bring her back from Hades Eurydice |
| #6396, aired 2012-06-11 | I DON'T KNOW YOU FROM ADAMS $1200: I knew of this U.S. physicist born in 1904 before John Adams wrote the opera "Doctor Atomic" about him Robert Oppenheimer |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: In a rock opera this deaf, dumb & blind kid becomes a pinball wizard Tommy |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: In a Wagner opera it's heads up for Jochanaan, who is this biblical figure John the Baptist |
| #6384, aired 2012-05-24 | OPERA CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In a Franz Lehar opera, Hanna Glawari, who recently lost her banker-husband, is this title character The Merry Widow |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $200: "Cavalleria rusticana" takes place on this large Italian island Sicily |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $400: A soprano plays the title bird in "The Nightingale", based on a tale by this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $600: "Azora" concerns the romantic entanglements of a daughter of this Aztec emperor Montezuma |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $800: The title character of Bellini's "Norma" is one of these British pagan priest(esse)s a Druidess |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $1000: "Belisario" takes place in this eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the west the Byzantine Empire |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | THEATER $1,000 (Daily Double): This long-running musical is based on a 1911 horror novel by Gaston Leroux Phantom of the Opera |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | FINE ARTS $400: One of the three tenors, he taught elementary school before becoming an opera star (Luciano) Pavarotti |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | METROPOLITAN OPERA $400: "La boheme" Paris |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | METROPOLITAN OPERA $800: "Der Rosenkavalier" Vienna |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | METROPOLITAN OPERA $1200: "Carmen" Seville |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | METROPOLITAN OPERA $1600: "Die Meistersinger" Nuremberg |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | METROPOLITAN OPERA $2000: "The Italian Girl in..." Algiers |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | THE HAZARDS OF DUKES $400: Charles Ferdinand, Duke de Berry, was stabbed to death while leaving this city's opera house in 1820 Paris |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $2000: The opera "Einstein on the Beach" was a collaboration between Robert Wilson & this composer (Philip) Glass |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | MICHAEL AT THE MIKE $400: He originated the title role in the London stage production of "Phantom of the Opera" Michael Crawford |
| #6344, aired 2012-03-29 | CULTURE CLUB $800: The witch of this biblical place pops up in Carl Nielsen's opera "Saul and David" Endor |
| #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 |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | MUSICAL TERMS $1,600 (Daily Double): This specific term refers to one who writes the text of an opera the librettist |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | BROADWAY $1200: This American opera was revived on Broadway in 2012 in a shortened version, with no goat cart Porgy and Bess |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | TOOT SWEET $1600: Act II of this Verdi opera features a triumphal march played on archaeologically correct valveless trumpets Aida |
| #6309, aired 2012-02-09 | FESTIVALS $1600: The film festival in this Colorado mining town began in 1974 with screenings at the Sheridan Opera House Telluride |
| #6303, aired 2012-02-01 | FAMILIAR EXPRESSIONS $800: It's popularly said that "the opera isn't over till" this person sings the fat lady |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | VISITING THE CITY $800: There's a great opera house on Bennelong Point from which you can see Fort Denison in the harbor Sydney |
| #6281, aired 2012-01-02 | FASHION $400: Mousquetaires, formal ones of these for women, have lengthwise buttoned openings at the wrist (opera) gloves |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OPERA $400: This title character is sent to fetch Isolde, his uncle King Mark's intended bride Tristan |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OPERA $800: She's a slave to Amneris, an Egyptian princess Aida |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OPERA $1200: Alban Berg's 1937 opera is a real doozy, or a real this, the double-talk name of its title character Lulu |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OPERA $1600: Gingerbread figures turn back into boys & girls when the witch's spell is broken in this opera Hansel and Gretel |
| #6279, aired 2011-12-29 | OPERA $2000: (Alex gives the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The Met's production "Enchanted Island" is a version of "The Tempest", & the costume I'm wearing belongs to this magician, who rules the island Prospero |
| #6267, aired 2011-12-13 | WORLD OF WONDERS $400: The versatile building seen here is the Monte Carlo this & Opera House Casino |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | CLASSICAL ROCK $2000: The buzz on this newly rocked-out piece says it's from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "Tsar Saltan" "Flight of the Bumblebee" |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | OBSESSIONS $800: This African-American composer was so obsessed with his opera "Treemonisha" that he suffered a breakdown in 1911 (Scott) Joplin |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANYTHING BUT OPERA $400: In April 2008 a new musical based on this novel swept through London, not Atlanta Gone with the Wind |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANYTHING BUT OPERA $800: Richard O'Brien not only created this musical, he also played the role of Riff Raff Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANYTHING BUT OPERA $1200: Daniel Radcliffe recently brought his magic to Broadway starring in this musical satire of Corporate America How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANYTHING BUT OPERA $1600: God I hope you get it, I hope you get it that this Broadway musical won a 1976 Pulitzer & 9 Tonys A Chorus Line |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANYTHING BUT OPERA $2000: An international piano competition held every 4 years is named for this American who won a competition in Moscow in 1958 Van Cliburn |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $400: (Alex dresses as a toreador at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) In a costume from a 2009 production I'm Escamillo, the toreador who wins the heart of this gypsy girl Carmen |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $800: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The title character disguises himself, but not very well, in "Le comte Ory", the first opera created in French by this composer whose last opera was "William Tell" (Gioachino) Rossini |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $1,000 (Daily Double): (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The costume worn by this character may not seem to go with his title profession, but in his first scene he sings "Largo al factotum" & explains that he's also the apothecary, gardener & wig maker the Barber of Seville (Figaro) |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $1600: (Alex wears a cape at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) This cape was worn by Enrico Caruso as the Duke of Mantua in this Verdi opera, the role in which he made his Met debut way back in 1903 Rigoletto |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | OPERATIC COSTUMES $2000: (Alex wears a helmet at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) This helmet is a fitting accessory from a production of this Wagner work in which the Knight's arrival in a swan boat is one of opera's great entrances Lohengrin |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | THE 1600s $800: The oldest opera for which complete music still exists is Jacopo Peri's 1600 work about this lover of Orpheus Euridice |
| #6234, aired 2011-10-27 | THE TONY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY $400: 1988:
This story based on an opera set in Asia M. Butterfly |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | AT SIXES & SEVENS $800: In opera, she performs the "Dance of the Seven Veils" Salome |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | A VISIT TO THE MET $400: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) The 2011-2012 Metropolitan Opera season opens with world-famous soprano Anna Netrebko starring as this ill-fated wife of Henry VIII Anne Boleyn |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | A VISIT TO THE MET $800: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) Since 1971 James Levine has conducted at the Met for nearly 2500 operatic performances, earning him this Italian title bestowed on conductors maestro |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | A VISIT TO THE MET $1200: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) In the 2011-2012 season, the Met is using new modernized staging to present all four operas in this composer's "Ring" cycle Wagner |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | A VISIT TO THE MET $1600: (Alex reports from the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.) Renee Fleming is rehearsing "Armida", a lesser-known Rossini work, which for a great soprano can be considered this, a French expression meaning "turn of strength" tour de force |
| #6211, aired 2011-09-26 | A VISIT TO THE MET $2000: (Placido Domingo presents the clue from the stage at the Met.) I've sung the role of Pinkerton many times & in 2011 at the Met I will conduct this opera in which Pinkerton sings the following: Madame Butterfly |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | ADVENTURES IN LITERATURE $400: The epilogue of this novel says, "I have now told the singular, but veracious story of the opera ghost" Phantom of the Opera |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | CALL ME SHIRLEY $1600: Shirley Verrett, best known as one of these, was dubbed "la nera Callas" by enamored Italians an opera singer |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | ICONS OF DAYTIME TELEVISION $600: Now that's stamina! Since 1970, this soap opera character played by Susan Lucci has been married 12 times Erica Kane |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | GOING FOR BAROQUE $2000: Henry Purcell's 1689 opera "Dido and" this Trojan hero is one of the finest English works of the Baroque period Aeneas |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | SISTER CITIES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia.) In less than 13 1/2 hours, Qantas flies direct from Sydney, the home of the Harbour Bridge, to this U.S. sister city that also has a famous bridge San Francisco |
| #6135, aired 2011-04-22 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS $800: One of Verdi's first masterpieces was this Shakespearean opera with an intense sleepwalking scene Macbeth |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BACKSTAGE AT THE MET $200: (Sarah reports from backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The great soprano Deborah Voigt wears this costume in the Met's 2011 production of this Wagner opera, in which she plays the title role Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BACKSTAGE AT THE MET $400: (Sarah reports from backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) Now what opera might feature dancing bears? "The Magic Flute", when staged at the Met by this director, famed for her Broadway version of "The Lion King" Julie Taymor |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BACKSTAGE AT THE MET $600: (Jimmy reports from backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) Here in the scenic shop, we're hammering away at the items that are used onstage in this number performed by the Gypsies in "Il trovatore" the "Anvil Chorus" |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BACKSTAGE AT THE MET $800: (Jimmy reports from backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) Backstage at the Met, you can find sets for operas by Verdi, Mozart & Puccini, who begins this opera in a Latin quarter garret
"O, Mimi, tu pi..." La bohème |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | BACKSTAGE AT THE MET $1000: (Sarah reports from backstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The jewelry here was worn by Elisabeth Rethberg, portraying this Verdi slave girl, a role in which she made both her 1922 met debut & her 1942 farewell Aida |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | PIRATE HAIKU--"AR" $800: Sing to me, sweet wench /
Opera's sweet solo song /
4 letters, one smile an aria |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | FACTS FROM THE WORLD ALMANAC $400: This musical tops the Almanac's list of longest-running Broadway shows The Phantom of the Opera |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE NAACP'S SPINGARN MEDAL WINNERS $800: 1939:
This gospel singer & opera soloist Marian Anderson |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) In 1973, "The Magic Flute", which included a queen character, was the first performance given here, & in the hall on opening night was this woman, who officially opened the Opera House Queen Elizabeth |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) To compensate for the high ceilings in the concert hall, acrylic rings were hung to reflect the sound of the instruments back to the orchestra & to improve this, from the Greek for "to hear" the acoustics |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Opera House in Sydney, Australia) In March 2010, just shy of 90, this sitar virtuoso performed on the opera house stage with his daughter Anoushka in his "Farewell to Australia" tour Ravi Shankar |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from in front of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia) As the story goes, Danish architect Jorn Utzon's winning design for the opera house was saved from the rejection pile by this famed architect from Finland (Eero) Saarinen |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the stage of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) In September 2009, this 65-year-old dame of Maori descent thrilled audiences here on the Opera House stage, singing Strauss & Puccini (Kiri Te) Kanawa |
| #6085, aired 2011-02-11 | LAST OF THE COMPOSERS $400: Although he completed a few musical pieces afterward, "William Tell" was his 38th & final opera (Gioachino) Rossini |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE PERFORMER $400: From 1960 to 2010 Don Hastings played Bob Hughes on this "global" CBS soap opera As the World Turns |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | MEN OF MUSIC $800: Richard Strauss used double basses for Jokanaan's beheading in the opera about this princess Salomé |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | SYDNEY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.) As the Opera House is located on the Harbour, it's fitting that the roof is made up of these sections, named for what they're designed to evoke sails |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | OPERA $400: The "Hexenritt", or "Witches' Ride", is sung in Act III of this 1893 fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | OPERA $1200: In "La boheme" the poet Rodolfo falls in love with this seamstress who suffers from tuberculosis Mimi |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | OPERA $1600: Carl Maria von Weber's 1826 opera about this king of the fairies was subtitled "or, the Elf King's Oath" Oberon |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" ends with the marriage of Henry VIII (aka Enrico) to this woman Jane Seymour |
| #6068, aired 2011-01-19 | OPERA $2000: In 1961, as Venus in "Tannhauser", Grace Bumbry became the first black diva to sing at this Wagner festival Bayreuth |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | MARXISMS $1200: Film in which Groucho asks, "Wouldn't it be simpler if you just put the stateroom in the trunk?" A Night at the Opera |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | MERRY MELODIES $1200: This composer also known for ballets composed a merry waltz for his opera "Eugene Onegin" Tchaikovsky |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1903 he formed his own ragtime opera company to perform his "A Guest of Honor" Scott Joplin |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | A VISIT TO AUSTRALIA $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of Sydney Harbor, with the Sydney Opera House in the background.) With the skyline of Sydney behind me, I'm in this Australian state, the first one settled by the British New South Wales |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | OPERA $400: "Twilight of the Gods" is the last part of this composer's "Ring" cycle Wagner |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | OPERA $800: In an opera based on a fairy tale, this title girl gives the prince one of a pair of bracelets before leaving the ball Cinderella |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | OPERA $1200: Coppelius & Dr. Miracle appear in "The Tales of" him Hoffmann |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | OPERA $1600: This Beethoven opera was based on a play called "Leonore" Fidelio |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | OPERA $2000: Bellini title gal who's high priestess of a Druid temple in Gaul Norma |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT $1600: In "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", Davy Jones helms this ship, also the name of a Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman |
| #6023, aired 2010-11-17 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: The beloved aria heard here is from this composer's opera "Turandot" (Giacomo) Puccini |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | MUSIC & DANCE $2000: In a dance troupe the group equivalent to an opera chorus is called this "de ballet" corps |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | DIVAS $400: Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi was chosen by Toscanini to sing at the reopening of this Milan opera house in 1946 La Scala |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | PRINCESS $1600: The 1884 satiric opera "Princess Ida" by this pair was inspired by a poem Gilbert & Sullivan |
| #5981, aired 2010-09-20 | GOAT-POURRI $2000: Crippled beggar Sammy Smalls, who traveled in a goat cart, inspired a title character of this opera set on Catfish Row Porgy and Bess |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $400: When this opera opens, a cigarette girl tells soldiers she is looking for a corporal named Jose Carmen |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $800: He began writing "Die Meistersinger" in 1845 as a companion piece to "Tannhauser", but didn't finish it until 1867 (Richard) Wagner |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $1200: In this 1892 Leoncavallo opera, the clowns enter an Italian village in a parade led by a donkey cart Pagliacci (Il Pagliacci accepted) |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $1600: This Rossini opera was first performed under an Italian title meaning "Almaviva, the useless precaution" The Barber of Seville |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | 19th CENTURY OPERA $2000: When 1st produced, this Verdi opera known as "the strayed one" was a failure, due in part to contemporary costumes La Traviata |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | OPERA CHARACTERS $400: In various versions of "Othello", she's smothered, strangled or stabbed to death Desdemona |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | OPERA CHARACTERS $800: Yum-Yum, who is due to marry Ko-Ko, falls in love with the minstrel Nanki-Poo in this operetta The Mikado |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | OPERA CHARACTERS $1,200 (Daily Double): A one-act opera based on an episode in "Great Expectations" is called this woman's "Wedding night" Miss Havisham |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | OPERA CHARACTERS $1600: This widower & hunchback is the court jester to the Duke of Mantua Rigoletto |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | OPERA CHARACTERS $2000: Characters in this John Adams opera include Chou En-lai, Chairman Mao & Henry Kissinger Nixon in China |
| #5951, aired 2010-06-28 | MUSIC $600: Born in Verona in 1743, composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga wrote many opera buffas, known by this 2-word term in English comic opera |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | LANDMARKS $600: This city's new Opera Bastille is almost 30 stories, 10 of which are underground Paris |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: A 1786 Mozart opera concerns his nuptials Figaro |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | I LOVE A SHOW TUNE $600: One of this title character's big numbers is "The Music Of The Night", which he sings to Christine the Phantom of the Opera |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | ARE YOU AN -INI? $2,000 (Daily Double): His last name begins with the 5-letter title of a Puccini opera he conducted (Arturo) Toscanini |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG $600: "'Barbara of Seville' opens... season" in this musical genre opera |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | ON BROADWAY 2010 $1200: Working-class characters seek redemption in this rock opera based on a Green Day album American Idiot |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $1600: As a critics' pick in 2008, this Lin-Manuel Miranda musical was called "a salsa-flavored soap opera" In the Heights |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS $1,200 (Daily Double): Bizet adapted a melody by Sebastian de Yradier for the "Habanera" in this opera Carmen |
| #5899, aired 2010-04-15 | THE LONDON STAGE $1200: With the haunting taking place in Coney Island, "Love Never Dies", the sequel to this musical, opened in London in 2010 The Phantom of the Opera |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | SEÑOR MOMENTS $4,000 (Daily Double): In English, this opera singer's name means "peaceful Sunday" Plácido Domingo |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LOOK OUT BELOW! $800: I can almost hear the music coming from this building down under the Sydney Opera House |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: A case handled by Leoncavallo's attorney father served as the basis for this opera also called "Clowns" I Pagliacci |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | COMPLETES THE OPERA TITLE $400: Rossini:
"The ____ of Seville" Barber |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | COMPLETES THE OPERA TITLE $800: Puccini:
"The Girl of the Golden ____" West |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | COMPLETES THE OPERA TITLE $1200: Stravinsky:
"The ____'s Progress" Rake |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | COMPLETES THE OPERA TITLE $1600: Donizetti:
"The Daughter of the ____" Regiment |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | COMPLETES THE OPERA TITLE $2000: Mascagni:
"Cavalleria ____" rusticana |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | MAKING OVERTURES $800: The first music the Chicago Symphony played was this German opera master's little-known "A Faust Overture" Wagner |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | MAKING OVERTURES $1200: One of this composer's classic opera overtures is heard here Mozart |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | MAKING OVERTURES $2000: This "marital" Smetana opera has the zesty overture heard here The Bartered Bride |
| #5880, aired 2010-03-19 | BUGS BUNNY $1200: This gun-toting nebbish tries to match wits with Bugs in classics like "Wabbit Trouble" & "What's Opera, Doc?" Elmer Fudd |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA $200: It was all coming apart. The VP from Maryland had resigned. Congress was coming after him. Pray with me, Henry, he said Nixon |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA $400: Things were good. Economy, strong. His country, at peace. But now Ken Starr was asking Reno for more power... (Bill) Clinton |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA $600: 7 of the 15 slave states had seceded, but he simply let them go. & would he ever find the right gal to marry? (Nope) Buchanan |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA $800: First Teapot Dome, & now Daugherty, his A.G., was on trial for shady dealings; he kept feeling that the end was near Warren Harding |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | AMERICAN PRESIDENT: THE SOAP OPERA $1000: The President was dead. He was top dog now. & he had a Nobel Peace Prize to win, & a canal to build in Central America Teddy Roosevelt |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | POP CULTURE $1600: This 2008 movie with Ed Harris & Viggo Mortensen as lawmen is a real horse opera Appaloosa |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | OPERA $400: In Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Maid of Pskov", this notorious 16th c. czar destroys the city of Novgorod Ivan (the Terrible) |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | OPERA $800: In "Maria Stuarda", this queen signs Mary Stuart's death warrant after being called a bastard Queen Elizabeth I |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | OPERA $1600: This Gian Carlo Menotti TV opera features a crippled boy, his mother & 3 kings: Kaspar, Melchior & Balthazar Amahl and the Night Visitors |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | OPERA $2,000 (Daily Double): On Feb. 26, 1776 a fire destroyed Milan's Royal Ducal Theatre; this replaced it La Scala di Milano |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | OPERA $2000: This Johann Strauss opera has appeared in several English versions, including "Night Birds" & "Rosalinda" Die Fledermaus |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | FOOD NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1600: Escoffier created & named an exceedingly thin & dry toast for this Australian opera singer (Nellie) Melba |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | OPERA $200: In a Rossini opera this Swiss patriot is forced to shoot an apple placed on his son Jemmy's head William Tell |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | OPERA $400: This opera ends with the title madam committing hara-kiri Madame Butterfly |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | OPERA $600: Don Jose is bewitched by this title gypsy girl Carmen |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | OPERA $800: This title slave & Pharaoh's daughter Amneris are both in love with Radames Aida |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | OPERA $1000: Count Almaviva attempts to thwart this opera's title marriage The Marriage of Figaro |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | OPERA GLOSS $200: This term for the principal female singer of an opera company is Italian for "first lady" prima donna |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | OPERA GLOSS $400: A ballabille is a section of dance music: Verdi used one in "Macbeth" to describe the dancing of them the witches |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | OPERA GLOSS $600: A barcarolle has a lilting rhythm, suggesting the songs of these Venetian singers gondoliers |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | OPERA GLOSS $800: A piece of orchestral music played between 2 scenes of an opera an interlude (or intermezzo) |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | OPERA GLOSS $1000: He coined the term "gesamtkunst, werk" to describe a "total art work" in which all the art forms combine to the same end (Richard) Wagner |
| #5842, aired 2010-01-26 | OF THE RINGS $2000: "Das Rheingold" is the first work in the opera series "The Ring of" these The Nibelungs |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | JUST SAY THE WORD $2,400 (Daily Double): Merriam-Webster's New Words of 2007 included this one for a soap opera south of the border a telenovela |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | OPERA OPERAS $400: In 1973 the Australian opera's production of Prokofiev's "War and Peace" was the first performance at this landmark the Sydney Opera House |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | OPERA OPERAS $800: This Spanish tenor made his operatic debut in a 1961 production of "La Traviata" Plácido Domingo |
| #5834, aired 2010-01-14 | OPERA OPERAS $1200: Count Almaviva is a character in this Italian's "Barber of Seville", first performed in Rome on Feb. 20, 1816 Rossini |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Yep, this haunting love story is still on Broadway, as it has been since its Jan. 26, 1988 opening night Phantom of the Opera |
| #5817, aired 2009-12-22 | MUSIC & MUSICIANS $1200: Berlioz never intended "The Damnation of" him to be staged, but damned if opera companies don't do it anyway Faust |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | HEN TRICKS $2000: In this hyphenated Russian's opera "The Golden Cockerel", the magic bird has the power of clairvoyance Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | HISTORICAL OPERAS $200: Yuri Shaporin's 1925 opera "The Decembrists" was set in this country 100 years earlier Russia |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | HISTORICAL OPERAS $600: In Act 3 of an 1846 Verdi opera, this "Scourge of God" is stabbed to death by his lover Odabella Attila (the Hun) |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | HISTORICAL OPERAS $800: Thea Musgrave's opera about her, "Harriet, a Woman Called Moses", has 2 acts: "From Bondage" & "To Freedom" Harriet Tubman |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | HISTORICAL OPERAS $1000: Except for a concert version, Massenet's opera of this 11th c. Castilian hero wasn't staged from 1902 to 1999 El Cid |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | OPERA $400: "The Canterbury Pilgrims", an 1884 opera, is based on a work by him Geoffrey Chaucer |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | OPERA $1200: In a fairy tale Rossini opera, Angelina is called this Cinderella (La Cenerentola) |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | OPERA $1600: "Pagliacci" is almost always performed with this 1-act Mascagni opera, "Cav" for short Cavalleria rusticana |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | OPERA $2000: Tom Rakewell is lured into a life of vice in this 1951 opera based on a series of engravings by William Hogarth The Rake's Progress |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): Several operas based on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" are named for this Gypsy girl Esméralda |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: In a 1791 opera, Tamino is given this musical instrument a (magic) flute |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | 2009 TV FAREWELLS $3,000 (Daily Double): After 72 years & more than 15,700 episodes, this soap opera went dark in 2009 Guiding Light |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? $400: The doctor in Berg's "Wozzeck" is sung by this lowest male voice bass |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? $800: Don Prudenzio is a doctor in "Il viaggio a Reims", written for the coronation of Charles X of this country France |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? $1600: Crusty old Dr. Bartolo keeps Rosina under lock & key in this Spanish-set opera The Barber of Seville |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? $2000: Despina disguises herself as a doctor in the Mozart opera "Cosi fan" this tutte |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? $5,000 (Daily Double): Marcello fetches a doctor, but Mimi still dies, leaving Rodolfo heartbroken at the end of this opera La bohème |
| #5789, aired 2009-11-12 | MUSIC OF TODAY $400: This teen with "Beautiful Eyes" was motivated by her opera-singing granny but chose to sing country music (Taylor) Swift |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | TEEN MOZART $800: From 1769 to 1773 Mozart made 3 trips south to this modern nation where opera was king Italy |
| #5779, aired 2009-10-29 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: In 1864 this opera composer wrote an "Homage March" for brass band to honor his patron King Ludwig Wagner |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | ITALIAN COMPOSERS $800: Gianandrea Gavazzeni was best known for his nearly 50 years of conducting at this opera house in Milan La Scala |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | ITALIAN COMPOSERS $1600: His last opera, "Turandot", was first performed 2 years after his death; Franco Alfano finished it for him Puccini |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | ITALIAN COMPOSERS $2000: In 1907, he recorded his "I Pagliacci", the first complete opera to be recorded in Italy Leoncavallo |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE AGE OF NATIONALISM $2000: Scenes of popular fury in the opera "La muette de Portici" fueled this nation's 1830 revolt against Dutch rule Belgium |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | "CENTER" FIELD $400: This NYC performing arts complex includes the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater & the Metropolitan Opera House the Lincoln Center |
| #5744, aired 2009-07-23 | QUOTATIONS FROM BARTLETT'S $800: Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein & Howard Koch are grouped together for quotes from this classic 1942 film Casablanca |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES $200: Title tonsorial job "of Seville"
(6) Barber |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES $400: Fairy tale that inspired "La Cenerentola"
(10) "Cinderella" |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES $800: Menotti lad visited by Melchior
(5) Amahl |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES $1000: "Twilight of the Gods", in German
(15) Gotterdammerung |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | OPERA CROSSWORD CLUES $1,600 (Daily Double): Prop placed on little Jimmy Tell's head
(5) an apple |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Jestine's Kitchen is a soulful stop for catfish in this city, home of Catfish Row in story & opera Charleston |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN $400: This network, which had given Britten work since the '30s, commissioned his first opera for TV, shown in 1971 the BBC |
| #5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN $1200: In Britten's opera "Albert Herring", a young man is made this springtime "King" because no village girl is fit to be "Queen" the May King |
| #5710, aired 2009-06-05 | I REMEMBER TELEVISION $2000: I remember this 1966-1971 soap opera about vampires, witches & werewolves Dark Shadows |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | A WORLD OF OPERA $400 (Daily Double): This explorer turns up as a character in "A Night at the Chinese Opera" Marco Polo |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | A WORLD OF OPERA $400: Based on the play "The Colleen Bawn", "The Lily of Killarney" takes place in this country Ireland |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | A WORLD OF OPERA $1200: When this Austrian's "La Finta Giardiniera" premiered in 1775, he was almost 19--getting old for a prodigy Mozart |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | A WORLD OF OPERA $1600: "Hunyadi Laszlo" is one of this country's best-loved operas Hungary |
| #5704, aired 2009-05-28 | A WORLD OF OPERA $2000: Here's a secret: "The Secret" is a charming comic opera by this Czech composer of "The Bartered Bride" Bedřich Smetana |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | GET A JOB, KID! $2000: From the Latin for "goddess", it's a distinguished female opera singer a diva |
| #5676, aired 2009-04-20 | LIKE A VIRGIL $1200: Virgil Thomson's opera about this 19th century romantic poet & libertine premiered at Juilliard in 1972 Byron |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $400: nytimes.com's "Find a Show" section tells how to get tickets to "Avenue Q" or this masked man musical The Phantom of the Opera |
| #5660, aired 2009-03-27 | MARCH $600: One of the first radio broadcasts of music took place March 5, 1907 when this opera overture was broadcast the William Tell Overture |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | STARTS WITH "SCH" $1000: Excessively sentimental, like a soap opera schmaltzy |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | THE SOPRANOS $400: Kathleen Battle's debut with the Metropolitan Opera was as the shepherd in this composer's "Tannhauser" Wagner |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | THE SOPRANOS $800: Sadly, this "bubbly" soprano & longtime general director of the NYC opera passed away in 2007 Beverly Sills |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | THE SOPRANOS $1200: One of Lily Pons' well-known roles was that of the beautiful Rosina in this Rossini opera The Barber of Seville |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OPERA $400: "Mefistofele" is based on this 1808 literary work Faust |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OPERA $800: The Duke of Mantua's "La donna e mobile" is from this opera Rigoletto |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OPERA $1200: This 2008 opera is based partly on a 1986 David Cronenberg film The Fly |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OPERA $1600: In a Beethoven opera, Leonore disguises herself as this boy Fidelio |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | OPERA $2000: Eva will wed the contest winner in "Die" this "von Nurnberg" Meistersinger |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CAN'T GET ENOUGH OPERA $200: Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" was commissioned for the 1966 opening of this company's new opera house The Metropolitan Opera |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CAN'T GET ENOUGH OPERA $400: Sounds hot: a biblical opera based on the book of Daniel is called "The Burning Fiery" this Furnace |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CAN'T GET ENOUGH OPERA $600: Gertrude S., a character in "The Mother of Us All", is really this Gertrude S. who wrote the opera's libretto (Gertrude) Stein |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CAN'T GET ENOUGH OPERA $800: When Mozart's "Il Re Pastore" premiered, it starred Tommaso Consoli, one of these surgically altered singers a castrato |
| #5633, aired 2009-02-18 | CAN'T GET ENOUGH OPERA $1000: Critics were carried away when Dwayne Croft played Nick Carraway in the 1999 opera based on this novel The Great Gatsby |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | FASHIONABLE COMMON BONDS $400: Action,
kid,
opera gloves |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | GOLDEN OLDIES $400: Act II of Schoenberg's opera "Moses and Aaron" features a "Dance Before" this idol the Golden Calf |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | OPERA WOMEN $400: This title character is actually the daughter of King Amonasro of Ethiopia Aida |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | OPERA WOMEN $800: Donizetti's this woman "di Lammermoor" was based on Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" Lucia |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | OPERA WOMEN $1200: The title of this opera refers to Minnie, keeper of the Polka Saloon in 1850 California The Girl of the Golden West |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | OPERA WOMEN $1600: How convenient--the title character of this Puccini opera is an opera singer Tosca |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | OPERA WOMEN $2000: In this Verdi opera Violetta Valery is a fallen woman who has a touch of consumption La traviata |
| #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 |
| #5601, aired 2009-01-05 | SONGS FROM MUSICALS $400: "The Music Of The Night" &
"All I Ask Of You" Phantom of the Opera |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $400: Julie Taymor directed the 2006 opera "Grendel", which retold this classic tale from the monster's point of view Beowulf |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $800: Andre Gretry, "the Moliere of music", composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king Richard the Lionhearted |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $1600: Composer Douglas Moore took flight with "The Wings of the Dove", based on a 1902 novel by this author (Henry) James |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $2,000 (Daily Double): Rossini's opera about this tragic title character is subtitled "Il Moro di Venezia" Othello |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $2000: The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "and the Singing Contest of the Wartburg" Tannhäuser |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | "KAR" $1000: In 1959 this conductor headed the Berlin Philharmonic, Salzburg Festival & Vienna State Opera Herbert von Karajan |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | GERMANIA $1200: The German title of this 18th Century opera is "Die Zauberflote" The Magic Flute |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS $800: This Madrid-born tenor has also run a couple of opera companies Placido Domingo |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this innovative theater & opera director is just 1 letter different from a late British comic actor Peter Sellars |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | SYMPHONY FOR THE DEVIL $800: It was a "Brave New World" for this Brit when his "The Devils of Loudun" was turned into an opera in 1969 Huxley |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | SYMPHONY FOR THE DEVIL $1200: It was a "New World" for this Czech after his comic opera "The Devil and Kate" opened in Prague in 1899 Dvorak |
| #5585, aired 2008-12-12 | STEP UP TO THE BARRE $2000: In 1957 this sister of Maria Tallchief joined the Paris Opera Ballet as an Etoile, the first American so honored Marjorie Tallchief |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | AD "LIB" $800: It can be the text of an oratorio or an opera the libretto |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | "M" TV $2000: Seen here is this wannabe opera singer turned creative director for "America's Next Top Model" Jay Manuel |
| #5567, aired 2008-11-18 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $2000: First performed in Cairo, this Verdi opera was commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt Aida |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | LET US GO TO THE OPERA $400: "Il Matrimonio Segreto" got the longest one of these ever: Leopold II ordered the whole opera repeated an encore |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | LET US GO TO THE OPERA $800: Tchekalinsky, Tomsky & Prince Yeletsky are roles in "The Queen of Spades" by this composeretsky Tchaikovsky |
| #5552, aired 2008-10-28 | LET US GO TO THE OPERA $1200: Donna Elvira is one of the women seduced by the title character of this Mozart opera Don Giovanni |
