Day 1: Samson and Delilah Digital Scavenger Hunt

-
On Monday, February 11, at 10 am, we started our first Samson and Delilah Digital Scavenger Hunt. The two winners, who were the first to follow all the clues and ended up with a codeword and email address to sent it to, received a poster of R.Black's Samson and Delilah. The clever Vanessa Zurita finished the hunt first - in just 37 minutes. Congratulations! Our second winner is Greg Argendeli who sent his winning email shortly after Vanessa at 10:44 am.

Here is how they did it:

At 10 am, we posted the following hint on our Facebook timeline.


It was a picture of our 'aria serious?'-blog that included two words in the search field: '10 questions'. In combination with the capital word in the Facebook post 'FIRST', it told the searcher to go to our 'aria serious?'-blog, search for '10 questions' and click on the first answer.


In this case, it lead to 'Aria Serious? 10 Questions with Nadia Krasteva'. 

The interview with our Delilah included one extra line at the bottom of the text:


Read backwards it says: Check out our Pinterest folder named Samson and Delilah.


The Pinterest folder included a picture of Camille Saint-Saëns. 



Strangely, it was not uploaded by the user like all the other pictures. It was linked to Youtube, a video platform, instead. To be more specific, our Youtube Channel and Dr. Nicolas Reveles' Kids Vidz for Samson and Delilah:

  
The video included the following comment and hint:



It advised the searcher to go to the English synopsis of Samson and Delilah at www.sdopera.com.


The text included a number of bold letters that spelled:

FACEBOOK JIGSAW PUZZLE DECEMBER.

The next step was to go to San Diego Opera's Facebook Page and find the jigsaw puzzle of Samson and Delilah from December 14, 2012.


The post included additional lines:

'You are nearly done. Follow the link, solve the jigsaw puzzle and send the included codeword to carmen.kruse@sdopera.com to claim your prize!'.

The jigsaw puzzle included the 5 letters 'DAGON' which was the codeword.

And that was it!

Come back on Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at 10 am to participate in another awesome scavenger hunt for a R. Black Samson and Delilah poster.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Five Things About La boheme You Don't Need To Know But Will Be Glad You Did

-
Getting ready with Dr. Nic last week for a TV interview he came up with five tidbits about La boheme to be used on air. Live TV being what live TV is, not all of them made it onto the show, but I thought they were interesting enough to be recycled here on the blog. Besides, I'm busy hammering away at the 2011 press release so pressed for time today. 2011 press release you say? You betcha. But, faithful readers, here's a tidbit: a certain married couple returns to us next season in another opera by Gounod. Without further ado, five things about La boheme you'll be glad to know 1) Giacomo Puccini’s opera La boheme is one of the three most popular operas ever written but it wasn ’t always that way. It was not an immediate success. An opera by a rival Italian composer, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, on the same subject (and also named Le bohème ) premiered about a year after Puccini’s and was quite successful. It’s possible that, in fact, Puccini actually stole the idea
Read more

10 Interesting Facts About Faust

-
A few weeks ago Dr. Nic shared with us 10 interesting things about Der Rosenkavalier , born out of an agonizing ride in the elevator where we stopped on every floor from the subterranean parking garage to the 18 th floor. Luckily we didn't have to recreate that experience to get 10 interesting facts about Faust ... 1. There is a well-known Christmas carol hidden in Méphistophélès ’ first aria, “Le veau d’or”, often called the “Golden Calf aria”. 2. The best known tune from Faust, Valentin’s aria “ Avant de quitter”, was added in 1864, a couple of years after the premiere of the opera (1859) for performances in London. It was sung in English at those performances and the French version followed later. 3. Although the story of Faust is based on Goethe’s original verse play (1806), it only covers Part I of the poet’s version, avoiding the more philosophical depths of Part II. 4. The source of the story of Faust was an actual person, a Doctor Johann
Read more

Pop Star to Opera Star

-
Image
We here at Aria Serious are torn by the news that ITV in the UK is filming a new reality series called "Pop Star to Opera Star" where pop stars will tackle the operatic repertoire while being mentored by Katherine Jenkins and Rolando Villazon. While we here at Aria Serious love to see our favorite art form on prime time TV, we're also concerned that this lowers the artistic standard. In a Company that prides itself in attracting the best talent possible, do shows like this undermine our work or is it a much needed breath of fresh air? One thing the show has going for it - Meatloaf (the singer, not the leftovers in your fridge) will be a judge. You can read about it here .
Read more