Here’s another round up of our favourite bits you might’ve missed on ENO’s social channels last week.
Feeling crafty? Our Head of Costume, Christina McGlynn, gives a masterclass on how to make Suffolk Puffs, as seen in #ENOButterfly
https://www.facebook.com/englishnationalopera/posts/10157771044883429
The ENO prop workshop’s supply of latex gloves and dust masks were sent to the NHS to help with the national PPE shortage:
https://www.facebook.com/englishnationalopera/posts/10157758582538429
Can you guess which operetta this peer-driven train appears in?
Got some Lego lying around? Try the #ENOLegoChallenge out for yourself!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-wnjq3h5we/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Working from home? Here’s a playlist from us to you, to help get you through the working day:
Our Music Department’s Richard Peirson put a positive spin on some well known tear-jerking operas…
https://www.facebook.com/englishnationalopera/posts/10157759912938429
And finally… the weekly quiz! Give it a go and let us know how you get on.
ENO Weekly Quiz, Vol. 4
Welcome to the ENO Weekly Quiz, with a new set of topics and questions to keep those brains busy!
We’ll be putting together a five round quiz each week. One of the rounds will be about opera, the other four will cover a wide range of topics.
Test yourself and share how you did with #ENOQuiz on social media.
General Knowledge : Queen Victoria belonged to which ruling house of the British monarchy?
General Knowledge: Which Brazilian city was founded by the Portuguese in March 1565?
General Knowledge: What is the only continent where you can find Orangutang living in the wild?
General Knowledge : Which country has the world’s longest coastline?
Visual Arts : Which artist painted the Fighting Temeraire?
Visual Arts: Constable’s The Hay Wain depicts a scene on which county borders?
Visual Arts: Whose painting of Guernica was a response to an atrocity in the Spanish Civil War?
Visual Arts: What nationality was the painter Goya?
Opening Lines: ‘A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment’ is the first sentence of which 19th-century novel?
Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?
Opening lines: ‘Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage’
Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?
Opening lines: ‘The play – for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crêpe paper – was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch’ is the first sentence of which Booker Prize-shortlisted novel?
Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?
Opening lines:‘Did you hear that?…They’ve shut down the main reactor’ Is the opening line from which Star Wars film?
Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?
Opera: 9. Which opera was written by Richard Wagner when he crossed the sea to London from Riga?
Opera: The term “opera” originates from the Latin word “opus”. What does it mean?
Opera:__ ‘Here Comes the Bride’ – the march played at many wedding entrances – is from which 1850 opera?
Opera: Of which Mozart opera did the Emperor Joseph II declare, ‘Too many notes, my dear Mozart, too many notes’?
Better luck next time!
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Pretty solid!
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Well done!
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You’re a pro!
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ENO Weekly Quiz, Vol. 4
Welcome to the ENO Weekly Quiz, with a new set of topics and questions to keep those brains busy!
We’ll be putting together a five round quiz each week. One of the rounds will be about opera, the other four will cover a wide range of topics.
Test yourself and share how you did with #ENOQuiz on social media.
General Knowledge : Queen Victoria belonged to which ruling house of the British monarchy?
General Knowledge: Which Brazilian city was founded by the Portuguese in March 1565?
General Knowledge: What is the only continent where you can find Orangutang living in the wild?
General Knowledge : Which country has the world’s longest coastline?
Visual Arts : Which artist painted the Fighting Temeraire?
Visual Arts: Constable’s The Hay Wain depicts a scene on which county borders?
Visual Arts: Whose painting of Guernica was a response to an atrocity in the Spanish Civil War?
Visual Arts: What nationality was the painter Goya?
Opening Lines: ‘A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment’ is the first sentence of which 19th-century novel?
Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?
Opening lines: ‘Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage’
Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?
Opening lines: ‘The play – for which Briony had designed the posters, programmes and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crêpe paper – was written by her in a two-day tempest of composition, causing her to miss a breakfast and a lunch’ is the first sentence of which Booker Prize-shortlisted novel?
Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?
Opening lines:‘Did you hear that?…They’ve shut down the main reactor’ Is the opening line from which Star Wars film?
Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?
Opera: 9. Which opera was written by Richard Wagner when he crossed the sea to London from Riga?
Opera: The term “opera” originates from the Latin word “opus”. What does it mean?
Opera:__ ‘Here Comes the Bride’ – the march played at many wedding entrances – is from which 1850 opera?
Opera: Of which Mozart opera did the Emperor Joseph II declare, ‘Too many notes, my dear Mozart, too many notes’?
Better luck next time!
Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!
No worries!
Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!
Pretty solid!
Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!
Well done!
Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!
You’re a pro!
Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!
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