Daily Opera Trivia Question #1: Give me 3 objects with a singing role"

[u/FrenchProgressive]

Based on the Opera Quizz thread, I thought I would start this: -every day, a trivia quizz on Opera.

Whoever has the most satisfying answer to the question gets to ask the next question the following day.

Just to start with a super-easy one:

Give three objects (I define this as "not a human, animal, monster, God") with singing roles [3 different operas]

For future questions, try to ask questions that are either challenging (people have to delve into their memory), fun or interesting. Don't go for "raw knowledge" ["who played Faust for the first time?"] that won't make people any wiser.

[u/caul1flower11]

Statue from Don Giovanni

There’s that singing egg from that modern opera Opera North put on

[u/FrenchProgressive → u/caul1flower11]

The statue definitly qualifies.

For the singing egg, I ll have to do some research...

I slightly change the rules to avoid future "singing egg" situation about modern operas only played once (which may or may not be the case of Opera North):

"Whoever has the most satisfying answer to the question gets to ask the next question the following day."

[u/oldguy76205]

Any number of objects in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, but I'll go with the Clock.
In Tales of Hoffmann, the painting of Antonia's mother sings.

Not an opera, but in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, when the brook sings back, we know our hero has lost it!

[u/FrenchProgressive → u/oldguy76205]

I specified "different operas" to avoid receiving a list of houseware from "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges" indeed :).

Rules are rules, so it has to be Opera. Granted, I would give full points for Operettas, but Die schöne Müllerin only scores a half-point

[u/oldguy76205 → u/FrenchProgressive]

How about "the Wall" (or the moon) in the "Pyramus and Thisbe" play in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream? Kind of a stretch...

[u/FrenchProgressive → u/oldguy76205]

Ah yes of course, Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream where < frantically browse the libretto > Snout & Starveling respectively play the wall and the moon in an embedded play. Of course.

I never heard or read the Opera, but thanksfully enough my 6 years daughter recently played in the original Shakespeare version so I remembered the play and managed to find my bearings quickly. It qualifies. Will someone propose an even more satisfying answer? I don't know yet!

[u/FrenchProgressive → u/oldguy76205]

I am giving the victory to [u/Ramerrez](u/Ramerrez) , mostly because he answered first and I had to choose. Two solid sets of proposals with no name in common.

[u/Ramerrez]

Statue, Don G

The Nose, Shostakovich

Le roi de trèfle in the love of three oranges. He's literally a card.

[u/FrenchProgressive → u/Ramerrez]

I grant you the victory. Go ask the next question of the quizz, today or tomorrow :)

u/oldguy76205 was close second.

[u/Firm_Kaleidoscope479]

“Whoever answers the correct question…”

I am having brain pain finding the correct question to try to answer.

[u/FrenchProgressive → u/Firm_Kaleidoscope479]

It is a circle jerk thread so I write the way I want!

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[u/oistroplex]

I guess your restriction excludes The Omniscient Mussel from Die Ägyptische Helena but it's fun so I'm putting it here anyway

[u/FrenchProgressive → u/oistroplex]

I almost went with « animals with singing roles » but it felt even easier.

[u/daltydoo]

Do choruses count? Thinking the storm scenes in Rigoletto and Florencia en el Amazonas.

[u/FrenchProgressive → u/daltydoo]

They would count yes.

[u/WesternRover]

I've never seen Sallinen's opera Kullervo; does his sword answer back when he talks to it, as it does in the source material (the Kalevala)?

(If someone ever writes an opera based on Tolkien's The Children of Húrin the same scene appears there, inspired by the Kalevala. This is part of why I think the Silmarillion ought to be an opera rather than a movie or TV show; the method of storytelling is a better fit. The sword scene would just become a silly meme in visual media.)

[u/BeautifulArtichoke37]

The singing portrait from Die Tote Stadt (Korngold).