Bonus
One of these two characters growls, “La pagherai! Brigante!” in anger after the other rebuffs him from helping a woman dismount a cart. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name either of these two characters who may sing the closing line “la commedia è finita!” after the stabbing of Nedda. These two characters appear in an opera often performed as a double bill with Cavalleria Rusticana.
ANSWER: Canio OR Tonio [prompt on Pagliaccio or Taddeo; reject “clown”]
[10h] Tonio, in character as Taddeo, sings these two Italian words twice to the audience’s “ladies” and “gentlemen” to kick off the prologue of Pagliacci (“pall-YAH-chee”). These two words precede “morir” four times in the final stanza of “Una furtiva lagrima.”
ANSWER: “si può” (“see pwoh”) [or “Si può?”; or “Si può morir”]
[10e] Enrico Caruso and Luciano Pavarotti are among the most celebrated singers with this voice type to have played Canio.
ANSWER: tenor [or tenore; accept spinto tenor; accept dramatic tenor]
<Cambridge A, Other Fine Arts>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38 | 11.58 | 95% | 18% | 3% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alberta | UW B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Bristol | Sheffield | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Brown A | Harvard B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cambridge D | Cambridge B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago C | WashU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Claremont A | UCSD | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Claremont B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia C | Vassar A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cornell B | George Washington A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Duke | UNC D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Harvard A | BU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Haverford A | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois C | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Imperial B | LSE | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Indiana A | Missouri | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Indiana B | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Liberty A | Liberty B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Liberty C | William & Mary | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| MIT A | Brandeis B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Maryland A | Penn B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland B | John Jay College | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Missouri S&T | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | George Washington B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Oxford A | Warwick B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Penn A | Haverford B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| Rutgers A | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| South Carolina | Wake Forest | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Southampton A | Oxford C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas A | TAMU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas B | ASU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UMass Boston | Tufts A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UNC B | UNC C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UW A | UBC | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| WashU B | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 8.33 | 83% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 11.67 | 100% | 17% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 38% | 13% |