Classical music
2016 in review

Were you paying attention? Classical music in 2016 – quiz

How many of the classical world’s comings and goings, openings and closings, bouquets and brickbats do you remember from the past 12 months? Try our quiz

Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Last night of the Proms 2016
Sakari Oramo conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Last Night of the Proms 2016. Photograph: BBC/Chris Christodoulou/PA

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Which one of these pianistic partners did Martha Argerich not play duets with in London this year?
"Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich"
Which mezzo-soprano lost her head as Holofernes in a staggering concert performance of Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans at the Barbican?
‘A civilisation that conserves is one that will decay’ said which composer, whose life and music nonetheless were celebrated throughout the year?
Which operatic anti-hero came to an unfortunate end in a disused sewer in Vienna in English Touring Opera’s new production?
"English Touring Opera 2016"
Which one of these conductors pulled out of an engagement to conduct in the Bayreuth Festival this year in as yet unexplained circumstances?
Which of these UK opera companies did not welcome a new music director or artistic director (or both) this year?
Whose music was performed in a Peckham car park as one of this year’s Proms?
"Proms at…Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park in Peckham, London"
Thirty-year-old Latvian Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is the newly appointed chief conductor of which British orchestra?
Whose opera debut, Pleasure, was set in the toilets of a gay nightclub?
"Lesley Garrrett in Pleasure"
Soprano Sarah Tynan sang Britten’s Les Illuminations at the Aldeburgh festival. Who did she perform alongside?
In May, Sheku Kanneh-Mason won the BBC Young Musician competition. Which cello concerto did the 17-year-old perform to take the title?
"sheku kanneh-mason"
Sofia Coppola directed an opera - her first - at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera. Which one?
"Sofia Coppola and Italian minister of Culture Dario Franceschini"
Who threatened strike action at English National Opera?
Why was Philip Glass's music featured at this year's Glastonbury festival?
This year's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at Kings College Chapel features - as it does every year - a specially commissioned carol. By who?
"Kings College Choir"
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