The Slipped Disc 2023 year-end quiz

1 Which Hollywood composer bought the BBC’s Maida Vale studios?

2 What was the worst Mahler of 2023? (And not the AI picture attached)

3 Which amateur conductor was caricatured in Tar?

4 Two Opera magazines went under this year – which?

5 Debussy was still alive when she was born. Who was the oldest pianist on record who died this year?

6 In which opera house did a critic get her face rubbed in dog-shit?

7 Whose baton provoked a limerick contest?

8 First Tar, then Maestro. Who’s the next classical biopic?

9 Who said ‘I only became human when I was a widow’?

10 Which soprano is suing the Met?

11 Which King was served by Zadok the Priest?

12 Name the bass singer who was punched by a conductor.

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