Quiz Summer 25
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Live Klassisk2 min read|2. June 2025
Test your knowledge of classical music in Live Klassisk's quiz! The summer edition features classical summer music, topical questions and upcoming concerts. Enjoy!
1) Anagram of the month: nervøse bygg
Hint: A Norwegian opera star who can be heard both at Operaen and in the Norwegian festival summer!
2) Which Romantic composer wrote music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, including the famous wedding march that is often played at weddings?
3) Who wrote the opera A Midsummer Night's Dream, which premiered in 1960? Peter Pears wrote the libretto based on Shakespeare.
4) Who is it that lies lazing on a warm afternoon in Claude Debussy's orchestral work from 1894?
5) Who wrote the orchestral works «Summer Night on the River» and «On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring»?
6) The new Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme contains music by, among others, Bach, Mussorgsky and Beethoven - but which Russian composer has the most central role in the film's soundtrack?
7) She is stepping down after 35 years as artistic director of Det Norske Solistkor and was recently the Saturday guest on Dagsrevyen - who is she?
8) Someone else who has been going for 35 years, but has no plans to stop, is a classical music festival in Sandefjord. Which one?
9) Several newly written operas have premiered in Norway this spring. Name one of them!
10) Which ensemble is behind Ski Hagefestival?
The answers:
1) Yngve Søberg
2) Felix Mendelssohn
3) Benjamin Britten
4) The faun in Afternoon of a Faun, or «Après midi d'un faune»
5) Frederick Delius
6) Igor Stravinsky
7) Grete Pedersen
8) Midtåsen Kulturfestival
9) Tze yeung-Ho: Nara (Borealis, Bergen, March)
Bent Sørensen / Jon Fosse: Asle og Alida (Bergen, March-April)
Lisa Lie / Stian Westerhus: Fønix (DNO&B, May)
Therese Birkelund Ulvo / Marit Eikemo: Terminus (DNO&B, May / Trondheim June)
10) Oslo Kammerakademi