Packet 2: Bonus 14
Some of the major operas premiered by this company include Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Parisian opera company housed at the Salle Favart. It shares its name with a genre of French opera that uses spoken dialogue rather than recitatives and that can end happily or unhappily, despite their name.
ANSWER: Opéra-Comique [or Théâtre national de l’Opéra-Comique; reject “comic opera”]
[10e] The Opéra-Comique premiered three of this composer’s operas: Esclarmonde, Werther, and Manon. It did not, however, premiere this composer’s opera Thaïs (“tye-EESS”), which includes a Méditation for violin and orchestra.
ANSWER: Jules Massenet [or Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet]
[10m] In 1883, the Opéra-Comique premiered this opera, whose title character sings the solo “Bell Song” and the duet “Dôme épais le jasmin” (“dome ay-PAY luh zhazz-MAN”) with her servant Mallika.
ANSWER: Lakmé
<Editors, Other Fine Arts> | K. Playoffs 2 (Editors 2)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 17.92 | 88% | 71% | 21% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Bruin | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge | Georgia Tech C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | HE |
| Chicago A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Chicago B | Northwestern B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgetown | Cornell | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Harvard | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Illinois A | UCLA | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Indiana | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| MIT | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Michigan | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| NYU A | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| NYU B | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| North Carolina | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Ohio State | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Pittsburgh | WashU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Stanford A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| Texas | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Berkeley A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCF | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 17.92 | 88% | 71% | 21% |