Question

Answer the following about 18th-century opera in the Americas, for 10 points each.
[10e] This composer’s rival Domenico Zipoli wrote San Ignacio de Loyola as a Jesuit missionary in Paraguay. This composer’s own works include the 1733 opera Motezuma, a D-major Gloria, and the collection L’estro armonico.
ANSWER: Antonio Vivaldi [or Antonio Lucio Vivaldi]
[10h] This character’s death ends the opera La púrpura de la rosa, which premiered in Lima in 1701. Henry Purcell (“PUR-sull”)’s Dido and Aeneas is modeled on John Blow’s opera about this character and his lover.
ANSWER: Adonis [accept Venus and Adonis] (Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco composed La púrpura de la rosa, or The Blood of the Rose.)
[10m] Popular in the colonial United States was this satirical opera that features folk songs like “Over the Hills and Far Away.” Near this opera’s end, a condemned man laments his fate to the tune of “Greensleeves.”
ANSWER: The Beggar’s Opera
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