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• a) Someone in the audience died after the aria, telling the story of God’s punishment, had been performed.
• b) The lead singer fell into the orchestra pit.
• c) A member of the orchestra died as result of a fight with the audience.
• d) A dead cat was found, after the performance, inside the kettledrum. According to those who had been in the vicinity, the cat had been alive at the beginning of the performance.

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• a) Jump on tables and chairs like a jester, miaowing at the same time.
• b) Swim across the Danube during the night, wear a hollow cabbage head on his head and croak like a frog.
• c) Dress in a large bat-suit and hover in darkness, supported by ropes, in the parks of Vienna. The opera ‘Figaro’s Wedding’ was inspired by this hobby.
• d) Break into the cages belonging to an animal warden and provoke stray dogs howl in moonlight. The howling, which Mozart joined in with, was a source of inspiration for the opera ‘Don Giovanni’.

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• a) High school teachers listening to a lecture about the perils of pop music.
• b) Hundreds of astonished chess players playing in silence.
• c) Six hundred Muslim postmen praying towards Mecca.
• d) Four hundred riot policemen practising how to handle riots by rock fans.

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• a) He became so excited about the distance and hearing his friend’s voice that he had to interrupt his call.
• b) He fainted at realising that his friend’s voice could be heard from hundreds of kilometres’ distance.
• c) He shouted himself hoarse, not believing he would be heard otherwise.
• d) He could hear interference on the line which inspired him to improvise the overture to a new symphony. A friend transcribed the notes.

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