Mariinsky Theatre
Off-season 2012
Summer Quiz
24 July ... 17 September 2012

ПО-РУССКИ

During the off-season time, we have launched a project that is aimed at communicating with our audiences via the Internet and social media. For eight weeks, from July 24 to September 17, we are publishing one question a day on the Mariinsky Theatre pages on Facebook (in English), VKontakte (in Russian) and Twitter (in both English and Russian). Questions are from a general range of topics related to arts, music, activities of the Mariinsky Theatre and summer mood :-). Follow links below in order to see what others answered to our daily questions published on the Mariinsky Theatre Facebook page. You are very welcome to join the quiz by submitting your answers.

  
Mariinsky off-season 2012 — Summer Quiz: 24 July ... 17 September
Day No. 1, 24 July.
What music work has the strongest association with the city of St Petersburg in your mind?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 2, 25 July.
Name three most recent opera performances you have attended. At what opera houses have you seen them?
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Day No. 3, 26 July.
What is your most favourite season of the year?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 4, 27 July.
What symphonic work (symphony, movement, symphonic poem etc.) would be the best match for the Summer Olympics?
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Day No. 5, 28 July.
Name three ballets you regard as hallmark productions of the Mariinsky Ballet.
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 6, 29 July.
What musical instrument sound do you like best?
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Day No. 7, 30 July.
What is your favourite opera by Giuseppe Verdi?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 8, 31 July.
Do you enjoy doing your job?
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Day No. 9, 1 August.
What is the most summer-like piece of music?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 10, 2 August.
How many concerts and staged performances at the Mariinsky Concert Hall in St Petersburg have you attended?
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Day No. 11, 3 August.
What music work is most closely connected with the theme of love?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 12, 4 August.
What is your favourite opera by Prokofiev?
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Day No. 13, 5 August.
What ballet have you watched more than any other one in your lifetime (counting live and recorded performances)?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 14, 6 August.
Which of the four elements — air, earth, fire or water — you feel most attracted to?
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Day No. 15, 7 August.
What literary work has received the most talented and successful interpretation in the genre of opera?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 16, 8 August.
How do you spend your holidays this summer?
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Day No. 17, 9 August.
What music work is most closely connected with the theme of death?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 18, 10 August.
What is your favourite ballet by George Balanchine?
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Day No. 19, 11 August.
What was the most amusing story related to the Mariinsky Theatre in one or the other way that happened to you?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 20, 12 August.
What is the most spring-like piece of music?
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Day No. 21, 13 August.
What symphonic work (symphony, movement, symphonic poem etc.) would be the best match for the Winter Olympics?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 22, 14 August.
What is your favourite opera by Giacomo Puccini?
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Day No. 23, 15 August.
What music work is most closely connected with water as one of the four elements?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 24, 16 August.
Do composer's surroundings influence works they compose? Provide examples and/or counterexamples.
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Day No. 25, 17 August.
What is your favourite opera by Richard Wagner?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 26, 18 August.
How many performances at the Mariinsky Theatre historical stage in St Petersburg have you attended?
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Day No. 27, 19 August.
Name three operas you regard as hallmark productions of the Mariinsky Opera.
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 28, 20 August.
What music work made the strongest impact on you? When did it happen?
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Day No. 29, 21 August.
What music work would you like to be audio or video-recorded by the Mariinsky Orchestra/Chorus/Opera/Ballet?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 30, 22 August.
Is your job connected with music in some way? In which way?
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Day No. 31, 23 August.
What is the most winter-like piece of music?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 32, 24 August.
Had the Mariinsky Theatre or a performance there ever appeared in your night dreams?
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Day No. 33, 25 August.
What literary work has received the most talented and successful interpretation in the genre of ballet?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 34, 26 August.
What is your favourite opera by Tchaikovsky?
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Day No. 35, 27 August.
What event or project by the Mariinsky Theatre you believe was the most important over the last 10 years?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 36, 28 August.
What music work is most closely connected with earth as one of the four elements?
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Day No. 37, 29 August.
Which of the Mariinsky label discs have you got in your collection of audio and video records?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 38, 30 August.
What music work that you never listened before would you like to listen?
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Day No. 39, 31 August.
What is your favourite ballet by Marius Petipa?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 40, 1 September.
What is the most autumn-like piece of music?
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Day No. 41, 2 September.
What do you think of the Mariinsky Theatre — is it a St Petersburg-wide, Russian-wide or world-wide institution?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 42, 3 September.
What is your favourite opera by Richard Strauss?
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Day No. 43, 4 September.
Which of the 15 Mariinsky label releases has the highest priority in your list of records to be purchased?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 44, 5 September.
What music work is most closely connected with fire as one of the four elements?
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Day No. 45, 6 September.
What is your favourite opera by Rimsky-Korsakov?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 46, 7 September.
Name three most recent ballet performances you have attended. At what theatres have you seen them?
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Day No. 47, 8 September.
What music work that you ever listened you would never like to listen again?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 48, 9 September.
What opera have you listened more than any other one in your lifetime (counting live performances, concerts and recordings)?
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Day No. 49, 10 September.
What music work do you regard as the most politicised one? Why?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 50, 11 September.
In what approximate percentage do you attend ballet, opera and concerts of classical music?
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Day No. 51, 12 September.
What is your favourite opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 52, 13 September.
What music work does always make you laughing? Why?
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Day No. 53, 14 September.
Which influence feels stronger — St Petersburg on the Mariinsky Theatre or that of the Mariinsky Theatre on St Petersburg?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 54, 15 September.
What music work is most closely connected with air as one of the four elements?
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Day No. 55, 16 September.
What role does music play in your life?
Comments on Facebook 		Day No. 56, 17 September.
How many questions of the Mariinsky off-season Summer Quiz 2012 have you answered? Which one was your favourite?
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