It’s time to get festive with this month’s quiz…

1. Which fruity opera by Prokofiev was premiered at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago on 30 December, 1921?

2. Born in Dublin in 1782, which Irish composer and virtuoso pianist is regularly credited with having invented the nocturne?

3. The Valle Giulia (at Dawn), Triton (in the Morning), Trevi (at Noon) and Villa Medici

(at Sunset) are all examples of what, as visited in a famous symphonic poem from 1917?

4. Orchestrated by Rimsky-korsakov after its original composer’s death, which 1867 ‘musical picture’ depicts a spooky witches’ Sabbath that takes place on St John’s Eve (23 June)?

6. Name the film whose soundtrack won composer John Williams the Oscar for Best Original Score at the 1978 Academy Awards.

7. Commissioned by King George II to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48), name the sparkly work performed for the first time in London’s Green Park in April 1749.

8. Which soprano aria from Handel’s 1743 oratorio Samson was sung by Kiri Te Kanawa at the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in July 1981?

9. Which football team is supported avidly by cellist Julian Lloyd Webber and, slightly less keenly, by his brother Andrew?

10. Taking one word from each one, which well-known Christmas carol links the previous nine answers?