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For all of you who have ever felt conflicted between your love of English National Opera productions, and the Olympics... Here is the perfect hybrid quiz for you. Enjoy responsibly.

Which Operalympics Event Are You?

The effortless elegance of Anthony Minghella’s production pairs beautifully with this graceful event. We especially like the use of ribbons in both the sport and the production.

Madam Butterfly

Our Magic Flute not only features elegant horse dressage but also elephant and monkey dressage too!

The Magic Flute

What do Pirates do? They sail... Obviously!

Pirates of Penzance

No ‘short sharp shocks’ here! Catch Ko-Ko playing tennis in our production of Mikado coming next year!

The Mikado

Calixto Bieto’s production really gave Bizet’s Carmen a lift!

Carmen

The Bohemians are our favourite basketball team! You know what they say... Those that live together in a tiny, freezing apartment, play together!

La bohème

Phelim McDermott’s Cosi fan tutte, set at Coney Island fairground in the fifties featured not only fantastic weightlifters but also fire eaters and sword swallowers! Might these make an appearance at Tokyo 2020?

Così fan tutte

One of the most infamous moments of a shoot out in opera... #NoSpoilers

Eugene Onegin

We interpret high jump as highest jump up to a note and we all know what that means... Cue Queen of the Night aria! Can you reach that top F?   
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Archery featured heavily in David Alden’s interpretation of Handel’s opera. Just make sure you stay away from the bullseye!

Radamisto

If you haven’t seen the diving sequence at the beginning of our Pearl Fishers, make sure you book tickets for this October! It’s really not to be missed!

The Pearl Fishers

Terry Gilliam’s crazy production of Benvenuto Cellini featured pretty much every activity you could ask for so go figure it also included some play fighting, otherwise known as fencing.

Benvenuto Cellini

One of the highlights of Terry Gilliam’s mad production of Benvenuto Cellini was the spectacular aerialist. If that’s not artistic gymnastics, we don’t know what is.

La boheme’s toy seller, Parpegnol, who appears at the beginning of act 2, cycles on a bike weighed down with children’s toys. His bike may not be as streamlined as team GB’s but it’s the thought that counts.

Juggling is the closest we came to handball... but there is a LOT of juggling in Akhnaten so until juggling becomes an Olympic sport, this will have to do.

Akhnaten

Our 10,000 metre race, also known as our ‘longest event’, is Wagner’s epic Mastersingers of Nuremberg. At a whopping 6 hours you may need some of Mo Farah’s stamina to keep up.

Mastersingers of Nuremberg

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