Packet O: Tossup 14

This is the first type of place in the title of a slow piano piece in mixed 6/8 and 9/8 time by Ralph (“rafe”) Vaughan Williams. A Rossini piece for clarinet and orchestra draws on an opera titled for one of these places in which a king disguises himself to seduce Elena. In the waltz from a suite titled for one of these places, violins introduce the jaunty melody “rest, C-sharp, short B, long D, C-sharp.” In that suite titled for one of these places, a solo oboe plays a long F-sharp, then a scalar ascent from low B to (10[1])F-sharp. The “Dance of the (10[1])Goblets” is from a (10[1])ballet titled for one of these places that Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa (10[1])revived in 1895. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])what type of place titles a ballet featuring Prince (10[1])Siegfried, the evil (-5[1])sorcerer (10[2])von Rothbart, and the swan (10[1])Odette, with music by Tchaikovsky? ■END■ (10[1])

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