Tonight's Topic: Oprah-Springer-Opera?
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Do you like Opera: "... a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists"?
Or how about the former TV "talkshow" hosts Oprah Winfrey or Jerry Springer?
Well, I hope so; because they are the topics of our Trivial questions tonight.
Accordingly, we offer for your approval, 3 questions about these three forms of "entertainment for the masses(?)" .
Please choose your answers from any of the 5 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", "C", "D", or "E" (if applicable!) for each of the following question.
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Question #1: The profane British musical based on his TV show, "Jerry Springer: The Opera" had 609 London performances. At which famous US musical venue did it run for only two nights in January 2008?
A. The Grand Ole Opry, or
B. The Metropolitan Opera (a.k.a., "The MET"), or
C. Carnegie Hall.
A convincing case for the rights to that title was made by the celestial “Jerry Springer:
The Opera,” the notorious show from London about the transcendent
within tabloid television, when it opened Tuesday night in a gorgeously
sung concert version at Carnegie Hall for a sinfully short run of two performances.
[SOURCE: New York Times: And Blessed Are the Singing, Pole-Dancing Fetishists]
[SOURCE: New York Times: And Blessed Are the Singing, Pole-Dancing Fetishists]
Question
#2: Last
year the entertainment billionnaire, Oprah Winfrey, closed her production
company "HARPO
Studios" in Chicago (after 26 years) to make way for a new
McDonalds Headquarters. True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.
A. True, or
B. False.
"Demolition of Oprah Winfrey’s former Harpo Studios on the Near West Side
began Monday, clearing the way for McDonald’s new corporate headquarters
to be constructed on the site by spring 2018."
[SOURCE: Chicago Tribune: Harpo Studios demolished to make room for new McDonald's headquarters (July 26, 2016)]
[SOURCE: Chicago Tribune: Harpo Studios demolished to make room for new McDonald's headquarters (July 26, 2016)]
Question
#3: Which kind of Opéra
is described as "a
light-hearted operetta, designed to satirise and to entertain"?
(Hint: check out QUOTE below)
A. Grand Opera, or
B. Opera Seria, or
C. Opéra Comique, or
D. Opéra Bouffe, or
E. Opera Buffa.
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++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- The New York Tribune in 1863 describing Offenbach's theater"in Paris:
"The Bouffes-Parisiens is so little as to be almost a joke. You laugh when you get inside it, at its tiny proportions ... There is, in fact, hardly room enough to swing a cat in. People do not, however, go to the Bouffes for the purpose of swinging cats. They go to listen to the brightest and newest music, to witness the best acting, of its order, that the French stage affords...." [Source: Phil G. Goulding, Ticket to the Opera, p. 292]
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A. Grand Opera, or
B. Opera Seria, or
C. Opéra Comique, or
D. Opéra Bouffe, or
E. Opera Buffa.
Opéra bouffe
Opéra bouffe is a genre of late 19th-century French operetta, closely associated with Jacques Offenbach, who produced many of them at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens that gave its name to the form.
Opéras bouffes are known for elements of comedy, satire, parody and farce.
[SOURCE: Wikipedia -- Opéra Bouffe]
It would be impossible to leave Paris without mention, at least, of the genre of French opéra bouffe in the second half of the 19th century.
This owes its name to Jacques Offenbach and is very much lighter in style than the comedies of opéra comique, which, by comparison, grew in seriousness of purpose.
Best known of Offenbach’s works in this form is Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld).
This mocks the serious legend tackled earlier by Monteverdi and by Gluck, among many others.
Now Orpheus is glad to be rid of Eurydice, while she is quite happy to enjoy herself in the Underworld, where the Blessed Spirits have greeted her with a spirited can-can.
Opéra bouffe is light-hearted operetta, designed to satirise and to entertain.
[SOURCE: Naxos -- Opéra Bouffe]
Opéra bouffe is a genre of late 19th-century French operetta, closely associated with Jacques Offenbach, who produced many of them at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens that gave its name to the form.
Opéras bouffes are known for elements of comedy, satire, parody and farce.
[SOURCE: Wikipedia -- Opéra Bouffe]
It would be impossible to leave Paris without mention, at least, of the genre of French opéra bouffe in the second half of the 19th century.
This owes its name to Jacques Offenbach and is very much lighter in style than the comedies of opéra comique, which, by comparison, grew in seriousness of purpose.
Best known of Offenbach’s works in this form is Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld).
This mocks the serious legend tackled earlier by Monteverdi and by Gluck, among many others.
Now Orpheus is glad to be rid of Eurydice, while she is quite happy to enjoy herself in the Underworld, where the Blessed Spirits have greeted her with a spirited can-can.
Opéra bouffe is light-hearted operetta, designed to satirise and to entertain.
[SOURCE: Naxos -- Opéra Bouffe]
++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- The New York Tribune in 1863 describing Offenbach's theater"in Paris:
"The Bouffes-Parisiens is so little as to be almost a joke. You laugh when you get inside it, at its tiny proportions ... There is, in fact, hardly room enough to swing a cat in. People do not, however, go to the Bouffes for the purpose of swinging cats. They go to listen to the brightest and newest music, to witness the best acting, of its order, that the French stage affords...." [Source: Phil G. Goulding, Ticket to the Opera, p. 292]
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