Packet 6: Bonus 3
This opera’s most commonly excerpted selections include the “Fête polonaise” and the “Danse slave.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1887 opera about Henri de Valois’s decision to rule France even after being elected leader by Polish nobles. A student of this opera’s composer claimed that its prelude “changed the course of French harmony.”
ANSWER: Le roi malgré lui (“luh WAH mahl-GRAY l’wee”) [or The King in Spite of Himself; or The King Despite Himself; or The Reluctant King] (by Emmanuel Chabrier)
[10m] This composer uttered that quote about Chabrier’s Le roi malgré lui. His own operas include L’enfant et les sortilèges (“lawn-FAWN ay lay soar-tee-LEZH”) and one about Concepción, the unfaithful wife of a Spanish clockmaker.
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel [or Joseph Maurice Ravel] (The other opera is L’heure espagnole.)
[10e] Le roi malgré lui received its US premiere at this prestigious performing arts conservatory in New York City. At one point, over half of the New York Philharmonic trained at this conservatory’s school of music, whose campus is in Lincoln Center.
ANSWER: The Juilliard School
<Texas, Other Fine Arts> | F. Prelims 6 - British Columbia + Texas + North Carolina
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 11.90 | 95% | 24% | 0% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cornell | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | WashU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Stanford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Toronto B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | UCLA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| NYU B | MIT | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Northwestern B | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Toronto A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley A | Cambridge | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCF | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 11.90 | 95% | 24% | 0% |