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15th April 2020 in News

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

In this week's #ENOCraftMoment, our Head of Costume teaches us how to make Suffolk Puffs, as seen in #ENOButterfly ?

Posted by English National Opera on Monday, April 13, 2020

The ENO prop workshop’s supply of latex gloves and dust masks were sent to the NHS to help with the national PPE shortage:

The ENO prop workshop's supply of latex gloves and dust masks are on their way over to the #NHS to help with the national PPE shortage ❤#NHSheroes#ENOLovesTheNHS

Posted by English National Opera on Friday, April 10, 2020

Can you guess which operetta this peer-driven train appears in?

Got some Lego lying around? Try the #ENOLegoChallenge out for yourself!

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#ENOLegoChallenge ? recreate a scene from you favourite ENO production using @lego ? Can you name the operetta that this ? appears in? #lego

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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…

In these difficult times, Richard Peirson from the ENO Music department attempts to turn sad operas into happy ones…

Posted by English National Opera on Friday, April 10, 2020

And finally… the weekly quiz! Give it a go and let us know how you get on.

</p> <section> <h2>ENO Weekly Quiz, Vol. 4</h2> <p>Welcome to the ENO Weekly Quiz, with a new set of topics and questions to keep those brains busy!</p> <p> </p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>Test yourself and share how you did with #ENOQuiz on social media.</p> </section> <section> <h2> <h2><strong>General Knowledge</strong>: <strong style="color: #ffffff;">Queen Victoria belonged to which ruling house of the British monarchy?</strong></h2> </h2> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;">General Knowledge: </span><span style="color: #ffffff;">Which Brazilian city was founded by the Portuguese in March 1565?</span></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">General Knowledge: What is the only continent where you can find Orangutang living in the wild?</span></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>General Knowledge</strong>: <strong style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;">Which country has the world’s longest coastline?</strong></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3><strong>Visual Arts</strong>: <strong style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;">Which artist painted the <em>Fighting Temeraire</em>? </strong></h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;">Visual Arts: </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;">Constable’s <em>The Hay Wain</em> depicts a scene on which county borders?</strong></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;">Visual Arts: Whose painting of </span><em style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;">Guernica</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;"> was a response to an atrocity in the Spanish Civil War? </span></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">Visual Arts:</span> <span style="color: #ffffff;">What nationality was the painter Goya?</span></h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">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? </span></h2> </h3> <p><em style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?</em></p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ffffff;">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’</span></h2> </h3> <p><em style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?</em></p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">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? </span></h2> </h3> <p><em style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?</em></p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">Opening lines:‘Did you hear that?…They’ve shut down the main reactor’ Is the opening line from which Star Wars film?</span></h2> </h3> <p><em style="color: #000000; background-color: transparent;">Which book or film do these famous opening lines come from?</em></p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">Opera: 9. Which opera was written by Richard Wagner when he crossed the sea to London from Riga?</span></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">Opera: The term “opera” originates from the Latin word “opus”. What does it mean?</span></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">Opera:</span><em style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;"> </em><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">‘Here Comes the Bride’ – the march played at many wedding entrances – is from which 1850 opera?</span></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><span style="color: #ffffff; background-color: transparent;">Opera: Of which Mozart opera did the Emperor Joseph II declare, ‘Too many notes, my dear Mozart, too many notes’?</span></h2> </h3> </section> <section> <h2>Better luck next time!</p> <h2><strong></strong></h2> </h2> <p>Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>No worries!</strong></h2> </h3> <p>Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Pretty solid!</strong></h2> </h3> <p>Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>Well done!</strong></h2> </h3> <p>Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!</p> </section> <section> <h3> <h2><strong>You’re a pro!</strong></h2> </h3> <p>Share your score with #ENOQuiz on social media!</p> </section> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>

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