1. This composer's Hebrides [HEB-ruh-deezl Overture is commonly called 'Fingal's Cave.'

2. This originator of the operatic recitative [reh-SIT-uh-tiv] was a music director at Venice's St. Mark's Basilica. His last two works were the operas The Return of Ulysses and The Coronation of Poppea. For 10 points—name this Italian composer of the oldest opera still performed, Orfeo [or-FAY-oh].

3. (Giuseppe) Verdi

4. Wagner

5. (Dmitri) Shostakovich

6. (Arthur Sullivan; W.S. Gilbert; 1885). The Mikado [Emperor of Japan] has made flirting a capital crime in Titipu, so the people have appointed an ineffectual executioner named Ko-Ko. Ko-Ko's ward, Yum-Yum, marries the wandering musician Nanki-Poo, and the two lovers fake their execution. The Mikado visits the town and forgives the lovers of their transgression. It includes the song 'Three Little Maids From School Are We.'

7. (Leonard) Bernstein

8. Schumann

9. Messiah is a work by this German-born composer of Music for the Royal Fireworks.

10. (Giuseppe) Verdi

11. Wagner

12. (Johann) Strauss (,Jr.)

13. (Pyotr Ilyich) Tchaikovsky

14. Mussorgsky

15. Bach

16. (Franz) Schubert

17. Schumann

18. Saint-Saens

19. (Abbé) Prevost

20. They Might Be Giants

21. (Johann Sebastian) Bach

22. Mussorgsky

23. Ward

24. (Ludwig van) Beethoven

25. The Threepenny Opera