| 1 | Which composer wrote the four 19th Century ‘Ring Cycle’ operas? | Richard Wagner |
| 2 | Which opera by Richard Strauss was banned in London by the Lord Chamberlains’s Office until 1907? | Salome |
| 3 | The aria ‘Un bel di vedremo’ (One fine day) is from which opera by Giacomo Puccini? | Madame Butterfly |
| 4 | The one-act comic opera ‘Bastien und Bastienne’ was the first by which composer aged 12? | Mozart |
| 5 | What is the title of the only opera written by Beethoven? | Fidelio |
| 6 | Which piece of music by Richard Wagner is played in the 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now’ on helicopter-mounted speakers? | Ride of the Valkyries (Walkurenrit) |
| 7 | The first public opera house opened in 1637 in which European city? | Venice |
| 8 | Gioachino Rossini wrote the opera ‘The ‘what’ of Seville’? | Barber |
| 9 | What was the first name of Italian tenor Caruso, born in 1873? | Enrico |
| 10 | Who composed the 19th Century opera ‘La Boheme’? | Giacomo Puccini |
| 11 | Tamino, Sarastro, Pamina and Papageno are all characters from which opera by Mozart? | The Magic Flute |
| 12 | In 1991, who made 101 curtain calls and set a world record of one hour 20 minutes for applause for his role in Verdi’s ‘Otello’? | Placido Domingo |
| 13 | The opera ‘Deliverence of Theseus’ by Darius Milhaud lasts how many minutes? | Seven minutes |
| 14 | What is the lowest female singing voice? | Contralto |
| 15 | Which opera singer was born Claire Mary Teresa Rawston in 1944? | Kiri Te Kanawa |
| 16 | ‘Premiere’ is the 2004 debut album of which opera singer? | Katherine Jenkins |
| 17 | Which opera singers were known as ‘The Three Tenors’? | Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti |
| 18 | Which opera by Puccini was completed after his death by Franco Alfano? | Turandot |
| 19 | Carlos Marin, Urs Buhler, Sebastien Izambard and David Miller are members of which operatic pop vocal group? | Il Divo |
| 20 | ‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’ is a song from which rock opera? | Jesus Christ Superstar |
