Exploring Baritone Roles and Composers Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

in eighteen years, baritone William Walker performed over 360 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

in his recitals baritone David Bispham (pictured) often sang English versions of songs by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and others.

the baritone Andreas Schmidt created the part of Ryuji in Hans Werner Henze's opera Das verratene Meer in 1990 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

during a rehearsal of Pagliacci with the Florentine Opera in 1998, tenor David Rendall sent a baritone to hospital when his prop knife failed to collapse.

after a career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, baritone Jeffrey Skitch became Principal of Elmhurst Ballet School.

baritone Hans von Milde sang for nearly forty years at the Staatskapelle Weimar where he performed the role of the High Priest in the world premiere of Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila in 1877.

baritone William Dooley performed the title role in the world premiere of Marcel Mihalovici's one character opera Krapp, ou, La dernière bande in 1961.

American baritone James Billings has portrayed more than 175 opera roles on stage during his long career.

baritone Earl Wrightson won an Emmy Award for hosting the 1950s CBS Sunday afternoon television show The American Musical Theater.

Exploring Baritone Roles and Composers

1 Enrico Ashton, ________

2 Pelléas, Pelléas et Mélisande (________)

3 Witness the title roles in Peter Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (which received its first production in 1879) and ________'s Prince Igor (1890).

4 Some of these singers include ________, Tom Jones[9] Michael McDonald,[10] and Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops.

5 After the war's conclusion, Hermann Prey and ________ appeared on the scene to take their place.

6 Germont in La traviata (________)

7 ________ (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Guillaume Tell);

8 Betz created Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and undertook Wotan in the first Der Ring des Niebelungen cycle at ________, while Reichmann created Amfortas in Parsifal, also at Bayreuth.

9 One of the best known Italian Verdi baritones of the 1920s and '30s, Mariano Stabile, sang Iago and Rigoletto and Falstaff (at La Scala) under the baton of ________.

10 L'Horloge Comtoise, L'enfant et les sortilèges (________)

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