Claudio Monteverdi - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

In this composer’s 1638 “Lament of the Nymph,” outer sections for men’s trio surround a middle section for a solo soprano singing “at the tempo of her emotion.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this composer whose operatic setting of the Ariadne myth is lost, except for a five-voice lament in which the title character asks to die. His best-known opera begins with a brass “toccata.”

ANSWER: Claudio Monteverdi [or Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi] (The opera is L’Orfeo.)

[10e] Monteverdi spent his last 30 years in this present-day city, where opera theaters and season tickets were invented for shows that coincided with its masked Carnival.

ANSWER: Venice [or Venezia]

[10h] At least three Monteverdi libretti were written by Giulio, the adoptive father of this Venetian singer and composer of the aria “Che si può fare” (“KAY see pwoh FAH-ray”) and the cantata “Lagrime mie” (“LAH-gree-may MEE-yay”).

ANSWER: Barbara Strozzi [or Barbara Valle]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Berkeley A	Georgia Tech	10	10	10	30
Brown	NYU	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	Indiana	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Minnesota A	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Claremont Colleges	Toronto B	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Arizona State	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	Berkeley B	0	0	0	0
Florida	Yale B	0	0	0	0
Iowa State	Maryland	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	Truman State	0	10	0	10
McGill	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Michigan	Illinois	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Purdue	10	10	10	30
Northwestern	Johns Hopkins	10	0	0	10
Ottawa	Duke	10	10	0	20
Rutgers	Penn	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Stanford	WUSTL A	0	10	0	10
Texas	Cornell A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Virginia	WUSTL B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Columbia A	0	10	0	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	13.75	75%	42%	21%