Crossword and Quiz

Head into port for this month’s brain teaser...

1. In whose opera of 1824 does the title character, Emilia di Liverpool, break up a duel between two men who have been stranded in the city by a storm?

2. Inspired by a satirical etching by Thomas Rowlandson, who composed the 1925 orchestral overture Portsmouth Point?

3. And which 1878 opera by Gilbert and Sullivan is set in Portsmouth? 4. Name the port cities in which the following composers were born: a) Antonio Vivaldi (1678); b) Johannes Brahms (1833); c) Alexander Borodin (1833); d) Edvard Grieg (1843)

5. In which port cities are the following operas set: a) Puccini’s Madam Butterfly; 2) Verdi’s

A Masked Ball (two possible answers); 3) Massenet’s Thaïs?

6. Which 1944 musical by Leonard Bernstein follows the exploits of three sailors as they enjoy 24 hours of shore leave in New York?

7. Catfish Row, the setting of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, is a fictional area of which real-life port city in South Carolina?

8. The Scottish port town pictured above inspired a 1980 piano interlude that has since become one of its composer’s most often played works. Name the composer and work.

9. Whose ballet Plymouth Town, written in 1931, was not performed until 2004, long after the composer’s death?

10. In which port city in Spain is the Euskalduna Concert Hall, whose ship-like design pays homage to the area’s ship-building and nautical heritage?

See p122 for answers