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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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* Opera and composer by plot
Match the opera and composer with its plot description.
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| Aida, Verdi | The titular character, the Ethiopian princess, is sold into slavery in Egypt and rescued by Radamès, but they both die. |
| Carmen, Bizet | The title character is a gyspy, who gains affections from corporal Don Jose and gets him to mutiny and join her group of smugglers. |
| Rigoletto, Verdi | The title hunchback jester is cursed and is unable to win the affections of Gilda. |
| The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart | The title character and the countess conspire to expose the count's infedelities and in the end forgive him. |
| The Ring of Nibelung, Wagner | In the tetralogy, the title object is taken from the Rhine and in the end the Norse gods are overthrown and society is ruled by love. |
| Don Giovanni, Mozart | The titular character is a licentious male who is dragged to hell by a statue that promises vengence. |
| William Tell, Rossini | The title character refuses to bow to a statue and is forced to shoot an apple of the head of his son, and after he does, he takes vengence on the man who would have had them both executed. |
| Madame Butterfly, Puccini | A U.S. soldier, Pinkerton, marries the title character in Japan, but after he is shipped home and doesn't return, she kills herself. |
| The Magic Flute, Mozart | A priest takes Pamina from her mother, the Queen of the Night, to free her, and the Prince Tamino is sent to return her, but he allies with the priest and marries Pamina. |
| La Boheme, Puccini | Two pairs of Bohemian lovers struggle to live in Paris in poverty. |
| Fidelio, Beethoven | Leonore disguises herself as the title character in her search to find her incarcerated husband and eventually he is freed. |
| Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin | The title characters separate while the male kills Crown as he tries to find the female. In the end, the female leaves for New York, and as the male is released from jail, he cannot find her at home and leaves for New York as well. |
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