18 July 2017 at 3.51pm | 5 Comments
Love triangles, disguises, deaths: opera plots aren't renowned for their simplicity. The same can be said of a number of stories told through dance.
To celebrate the art forms we know and love, we translated 20 well-known opera and ballet plots into a series of icons, as part of #WorldEmojiDay – a global celebration of pictographs. After all, opera and ballet have emotion at their core, so what better way to bring these stories to a new audience (as well as entertaining our existing followers) than through a series of lighthearted emoji riddles posted on social media?
Can you guess the operas and ballets from the simplified plots below? We'll reveal the answers in the comments section below.
(The prize draw element of this competition has now ended)
1. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
2. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
3. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
4. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
5. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
6. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
7. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
8. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
9. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
10. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
11. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
12. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
13. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
14. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
15. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
16. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
17. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
18. Guess the ballet. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
19. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw. (Hint: it's also a ballet!)
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— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
20. Guess the opera. RT and DM us your guess to enter the prize draw.
(OK, we made our own knight emoji. Needs must.)#WorldEmojiDay pic.twitter.com/9acuJ21TK1
— Royal Opera House (@RoyalOperaHouse) July 17, 2017
How many did you guess? Follow us on Twitter @RoyalOperaHouse and let us know.
18 July 2017 at 3.51pm
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The answers:
1. Turandot
2. Cinderella
3. La traviata
4. Giselle
5. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
6. The Firebird
7. La bohème
8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
9. Carmen
10. The Winter’s Tale
11. Das Rheingold
12. Sleeping Beauty
13. Madama Butterfly
14. La Sylphide
15. The Cunning Little Vixen
16. The Nutcracker
17. L’elisir d'amore
18. Swan Lake
19. Romeo and Juliet
20. Parsifal
Excellent quiz
Fantastic. My favourite is The Sleeping Beauty.
Loved trying to guess these.Didn't do too badly as I had the pleasure of dancing with both the Opera and the ballet companies at R.O.H
Great fun, thank you!