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

Which one of these pianistic partners did Martha Argerich not play duets with in London this year?

Daniel Barenboim

Stephen Kovacevich

Alberto Portugheis

Which mezzo-soprano lost her head as Holofernes in a staggering concert performance of Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans at the Barbican?

Ann Hallenberg

Magdalena Kozena

Delphine Galou

‘A civilisation that conserves is one that will decay’ said which composer, whose life and music nonetheless were celebrated throughout the year?

Pierre Boulez

John Cage

Peter Maxwell Davies

Which operatic anti-hero came to an unfortunate end in a disused sewer in Vienna in English Touring Opera’s new production?

Don Giovanni

Rigoletto

Harry Lime

Which one of these conductors pulled out of an engagement to conduct in the Bayreuth Festival this year in as yet unexplained circumstances?

Christian Thielemann

Andris Nelsons

Kirill Petrenko

Which of these UK opera companies did not welcome a new music director or artistic director (or both) this year?

Royal Opera House

Glyndebourne

English National Opera

Whose music was performed in a Peckham car park as one of this year’s Proms?

David Bowie

Benedict Mason

Steve Reich

Thirty-year-old Latvian Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is the newly appointed chief conductor of which British orchestra?

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Whose opera debut, Pleasure, was set in the toilets of a gay nightclub?

Colin Matthews

Mark Simpson

Anna Meredith

Soprano Sarah Tynan sang Britten’s Les Illuminations at the Aldeburgh festival. Who did she perform alongside?

A group of acrobats, clowns and aerialists

An elephant and a camel

A virtual reality projection of Britten accompanying her on the piano

In May, Sheku Kanneh-Mason won the BBC Young Musician competition. Which cello concerto did the 17-year-old perform to take the title?

Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor

Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No 1 in E flat major

Witold Lutosławski's Cello Concerto

Sofia Coppola directed an opera - her first - at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera. Which one?

Verdi's La Traviata

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

Mark-Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole

Who threatened strike action at English National Opera?

The board

The stagehands

The chorus

Why was Philip Glass's music featured at this year's Glastonbury festival?

There was an open-air screening of Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi with Glass's soundtrack

English National Opera took the opening act of Akhnaten to the Pyramid stage for a Sunday early afternoon performance

Charles Hazlewood and his Army of Generals performed Glass's Heroes Symphony, inspired by David Bowie's 1977 album.

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?

Kanye West

Michael Berkeley

Judith Weir

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