THE QUIZ

Get your act together for this month’s quiz…

1. Which 1830 work was inspired by its composer’s infatuation with the Irish actress Harriet Smithson, whom he would eventually marry?

2. Which 1892 opera about a troupe of actors ends with the line ‘La commedia è finita!’?

3. Having met on the set of As You Like It in 1936, which British actor and composer went on to work together on three renowned films of Shakespeare plays?

4. Which British actor’s film roles have included Chopin in Impromptu (1991) and St Clair Bayfield, the soprano’s partner in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)?

5. Which bass-baritone starred as an actor in the title role of Shakespeare’s Othello opposite Ian Mckellen’s Iago (above) at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1989?

6. Name the well-known actresses to whom these conductors were or are still married: a) André Previn; b) Carl Davis; c) Stephen Barlow.

7. In 2011, the CBSO gave a concert featuring classical music works by which Oscar-winning actor?

8. In April 2018, which actor sold the violin he had played in the

2003 film Master and Commander for around £90,000 at auction?

9. Which rock star played Liszt in the 1975 Ken Russell film Lisztomania and Macheath in the 1983 BBC TV adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera?

10. Which British actor was seen tickling the ivories with pianist Khatia Buniatishvili in 2017, sparking talk of a relationship?

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