Question
Answer the following about the use of Latin in 20th and 21st-century opera, for 10 points each.
[10m] Jean Cocteau wrote a libretto in French, which was then translated into Latin, for this composer’s 1927 opera Oedipus Rex.
ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky [or Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky]
[10h] After his Latin lessons, the boy Miles sings an aria in which he repeats this word before phrases like “I would rather be” and “in the apple tree” in Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.
ANSWER: malo
[10e] Martina Winkel wrote the libretto to this composer’s opera Kepler in German and Latin. This composer used the extinct languages of Akkadian and Ancient Egyptian in parts of his opera Akhenaten and used Sanskrit in Satyagraha.
ANSWER: Philip Glass
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Brown A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke A | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Harvard A | Texas A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Houston A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Iowa State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Imperial A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Penn State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Claremont A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | MIT A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Virginia A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Ohio State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WUSTL B | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |