Bel Canto True or False

1. When did Mr. Hosokawa first encounter opera? -> When his father took him to see Verdi's Rigoletto on his eleventh birthday
2. Does Roxane Coss know all the languages she sings in? -> No: she's learned how to pronounce them and act out the gist of her words while singing, but she has to read a translation to know what some of them mean
3. Roxane has just finished singing an aria from which opera when the lights go out? -> Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
4. Why does Roxane try to stop Cesar from singing the end of an aria? -> She's worried that he's not prepared yet for the impossibly high note at the end
5. How does Father Arguedas usually listen to opera? -> He listens to it on records in the basement of a university library

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