5 famous arias and overtures you think you know- but do you?

[@antonylias2055]

5/5 :) Excellent quiz and wonderfully engaging host! I look forward to many more, perhaps more niche, such as bel canto, the works of Richard Strauss etc.

[@peterpawlik2495]

Be careful what you wish for 😄 More niche content is coming 🙂 Thank you for your comment!

[@mireilleassena]

1. Bella figlia dell'amore (VERDI, Lakmé) 2. I was lost😂😂😂 3. Duo des fleurs (DÉLIBES, Lakmé) 4. Ebben ne andrò lontana (CATALANI, La Wally) [Here I can say I'm fortunate to be a soprano myself😂😂😂) 5. The music made me think of MASCAGNI in Cavalleria Rusticana but obviously I was completely lost 😂😂😂😂in This was a very enriching game. Thanks a million for the experiment. I gained a lot in watching, therefore I subscribe immediately That makes 3/5

[@peterpawlik2495]

Wow, thank you so much for your kind comment 🙏 I am positively surprised how many people got the Catalani right - even those who are not sopranos 😄 Thank you for subscribing, I appreciate it very much!

[@yelowgizmo]

I'm like Socrates.

[@peterpawlik2495]

That's a great company to be with 😊👍

[@karilamminpaa8987]

What on earth do you want to know ? "D0 YOU ?" Bloody hell jess wee doo knou !!!!!

[@peterpawlik2495]

I am not sure how to understand your comment, i am sorry. Are you somehow angry with me?

[@karilamminpaa8987]

@@peterpawlik2495Sorry no, I am just baffled by the "You think you know - but do you."

[@peterpawlik2495]

@@karilamminpaa8987 Thank you for the explanation - all my best 🙂🙏

[@philzmusic8098]

Have you ever seen the opera "The Teabag"?

[@peterpawlik2495]

I can't say i have 😂

[@jorgaba2865]

Love it! I got 3/5. I missed Lakme & La Wally, sadly. Of course familiar, but I could not place them.

[@peterpawlik2495]

3 out of 5 is pretty amazing, well done 👍 And thanks a lot for your comment!

[@ralphl7643]

I only knew La Wally from the 80s French movie Diva.

[@williamnethercott4364]

4/5. At least that's better than I did with the second quiz. La Wally had me completely lost.

[@fredrickroll06]

That's exactly the point! Everybody knows the aria in the recording of Maria Callas - but hardly anybody knows "La Wally," and even fewer people know its composer, Alfredo Catalani! Thank you very much for trying to make them better known! I have adored Alfredo Catalani, the trailblazer for Puccini, since I was 15! Try his opera "Loreley," the predecessor of "La Wally" - it always makes me cry!

[@wookinooki9023]

i got them all right except Zauber, but I got Mozart. I understood the words fire and wind. darn.

[@peterpawlik2495]

😄😄😄 That’s really impressive, you are a true expert 👍 Thank you for your comment!

[@philzmusic8098]

I missed no.5.

[@peterpawlik2495]

To be fair: No.5 was the trickiest one 😬🙄

[@BytomGirl]

I will recognize Rigoletto if you wake me up in the middle of the night. It was the first opera I saw as a child of 6 at Lvov Opera Theater. For months I was humming La Donna e Mobile. OK, I was a weird kid, when my peers sand rock, I hummed Rigoletto and danced Gold and Silver waltz around the kitchen table (that was the only record we had) I knew William Tell from the first note. I didn't get La Wally, Lakme was no brainer.

[@peterpawlik2495]

The same happened to me: I was the only teenager in my school who loved opera. While my friends went to a disco I spent my evenings as an extra in our local opera house 😄

[@BytomGirl]

@@peterpawlik2495 The same here, when I was 8 we moved to Poland, to the city Bytom in Silesia, home of one of the best, most prominent opera theaters in Poland, Silesian Opera and it became my second home. There were opera, music and ballet productions but also theater which I loved (I played in amateur one in Katowice until I left Poland). I loved Polish operas of Stanislaw Moniuszko and Polish classical music. In that Opera Theater once Wieslaw Ochman was a lead tenor. Oh, I am also a big fan of operetta. Many of my peers laughed at me.. it didn't bother me, I always thought "their loss"

[@peterpawlik2495]

@@BytomGirlzko guy - curious how Polish opera may sound. Very strange that it’s not better known in the west…

[@rugby8-Philadelphia]

So much fun!!! Thanks for this 😎😎😎

[@peterpawlik2495]

Glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@Rosangela161]

Welcome! It's a wonderful, didactic and educative quiz. Thank you. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@peterpawlik2495]

🙏

[@ian.marais1202]

Fantastic I got all right.

[@peterpawlik2495]

Very cool 👌👍

[@mariadanila7749]

4 out of five. Although, that cello of the Guillaume Tell Ouverture should be iconic, too 🙂. Can one order tea bags used by you? 😀

[@peterpawlik2495]

4 out of 5 is top notch 🥳 And about my used teabags: sure, just send me your creditcard number, expiration date and safety code and I will send you in exchange 1 used earl gray and 1 used fruit tea bag 😄👍

[@danielklempner4786]

2 out of 5. I knew lakme and magic flute. I was so surprised so many people didnt know lakme. It was so easy, since it was even from the same aria thats famous! those also happen to be the two operas from this that ive seen. but i think lakme could have been harder.

[@peterpawlik2495]

Wow, good for you that you recognized Lakme immediately. I think I have written it in another response to some comment already: I am really bad and just knew the very first phrase from the duet. If I hadn't done the research for the quiz I would have failed miserably 😄

[@sophiamcl]

I only have one complaint: A good deed should not be a punishment. :)

[@peterpawlik2495]

I am not sure I follow? 🤔

[@InstantLight]

@@peterpawlik2495 That helping an old lady across the street is the task for you if you get the answers wrong :)

[@peterpawlik2495]

@@InstantLight I get it now 😄

[@nikolauskarlinsky3778]

3 out of 5, so I'll have a lot to do in the coming days... Lakme and Guillaume Tell, arghhhh.... I've loved La Wally since the movie "Diva" by Jean-Jacques Beineix and the beginning of the aria is absolutely magical. Thanks for this quiz. Can I order the tea bags through you? The site seems to have a bug 😏

[@peterpawlik2495]

Congratulations 3 out of 5 is very respectable 💪 Sorry for the hiccup with the website - my team is working on it 😄

[@vinoveritas4921]

In the full opera (not the concert version of the aria), the ending is even more magical, I recommend. Too bad the other maestro from Lucca died so young.

[@Nullifidian]

Had to check this out after seeing your second quiz from a few days ago. 5 out of 5 again. _Guillaume Tell_ is my favorite Rossini opera. I'd love to know how the ending of _La Wally_ was supposed to work on stage. How do you stage an avalanche? Perhaps multiple scrims coming down from the flies with bits of fake rock or snow glued to them so it looks layered or something. It's the same problem with Meyerbeer's _Le prophète_ , where Jean de Leyde's palace in Münster is blown up and the explosion doesn't come after the curtain comes down but instead happens before the final chorus, so you have to depict an edifice in the process of collapse on stage. Recognizing the aria wasn't hard, though, because I have that compilation CD of Callas' EMI recordings.

[@peterpawlik2495]

Yeah, always tricky to bring a kind of apocalypse on the stage in a credible way - I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when Catalani showed his opera for the first time to the stage director and set designer 😄

[@peterpawlik2495]

I forgot to say: Again 5 out of 5? 😳 I am preparing right now part 3 with operas from 1900 to 1950 - let’s see how you will score with them 😄

[@Nullifidian]

@@peterpawlik2495 I'll look forward to it! I love 20th and 21st century opera (and classical music generally), and the more dissonant and experimental it is the better.

[@fredrickroll06]

Geneva did a pretty decent job of the avalanche - with projections: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnupcqeBhZh8qdU, 2:04:45 - in the best production by far I have ever seen of the entire opera!

[@peterpawlik2495]

@@fredrickroll06 Thank you for the link - I definitely will watch that 👍

[@n.n.5293]

3 out of five. La Wally is still on my to do list. I have listened to the Aria you played though. Just not really in Depth. I don‘t really have an excuse for not recognizing the Magic Flute and Lakmé was pretty much a Lucky hit for me as I‘ve only listened to this one piece. So if you‘d taken it one step further and picked a different piece I would have been lost. But that‘s why I say the only Operas were my opinions matter are Traviata and maybe Lohengrin as Ihave listened to those extensively and in the case of Traviata studied the piano score. Best regards

[@peterpawlik2495]

Thank you for your comment. To tell the truth: I would have never recognized Lakme or Guillaume Tell myself if I hadn’t done the research for this video. Originally I had been thinking about adding Traviata to my quiz, showing first an excerpt of „piangi, piangi, piangi o misera“ as the less known piece and then „Libiamo“ as the piece everyone would know. But at least 2 old ladies will be helped across the street now. And that’s what really matter 😄🙏

[@n.n.5293]

@@peterpawlik2495 Yes, that is truly the most important thing. Fuillaume Tell was the first ever piece of music I remember enjoying. My Dad showed it to me when I was four or so and I still remember me and my sister hopping in our seats in the car whenever we listened to it.

[@peterpawlik2495]

@@n.n.5293 wow, that’s what I would call a very early introduction into classical music - well done by your dad 😊

[@Raulgermont]

You're a riot! Is that really a picture of Maria Callas (crossed with Audrey Hepburn, maybe)?

[@peterpawlik2495]

😄 Actually I don’t know 🤦‍♂️ It’s the original photo of the video I was presenting. I didn’t change anything 🤷‍♂️🙄

[@peterpawlik2495]

I just checked my video again - in my modest opinion it’s indeed a photo of Callas but taken in a Hepburn style 😄

[@Raulgermont]

Both legends of the 20th century. They deserve to be together! Regards.@@peterpawlik2495

[@vinoveritas4921]

Very interesting exercice, I am asking for more ! I only got 2.5/5 : Zauberflote (not easy), La Wally (easier) and I made a confusion between Rigoleto/Trovatore (and I first thought it was Traviata ...😅, but at least all this stuff is Verdi from the same period so this is why I claim a half point 😄). But I completely missed Lakmé (was not sure, I never really listened with a great attention to this opera and was hesitating with some Massenet stuff, don't know why) and Guillaume Tell. But I promise I will help some old lady to cross the road.

[@peterpawlik2495]

I would give you even a 2.75/5 👏

[@vinoveritas4921]

@@peterpawlik2495 That's kind 😄👍

[@sylviebasyl2835]

Rigoletto bella figlia dell amore Lakme, duo des fleurs La wally ebben ne andro lontana Bon, j'avais un petit doute sur Mozart et la flûte enchantée. Mais le Guillaume Tell de Rossini, alors pas du tout !

[@peterpawlik2495]

Well done 😊👍

[@ikmarchini]

Mr. Klemps, you talka too much.

[@peterpawlik2495]

Thank you for your comment! But if I may ask: who is Mr.Klemps?

[@javierlameiro3539]

Too easy. FAR too elementary. Now let´s see whether you make a quiz with excerpts from "Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria", "Herkules auf dem Scheidewege", "Genoveva", "Il Prigioniero", "Die Soldaten" "Bomarzo" "Anna Nicole" "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Death of Klinghoffer"!!!

[@peterpawlik2495]

FAR too complicated for me - I am just a simple worker in the opera mines 😔 but I hope to evolve over time... but I think you will be happy about one of my next videos which has something to do with "Klinghoffer"...🤫

[@malcolmdale9607]

I thought I was going to like this until I saw the horrible expletive on the screen.

[@peterpawlik2495]

Thank your for your comment. Unfortunately I am not sure what you mean by "horrible expletive"?