Friday Opera Crossword #3
Across
- 4. Librettist for 'The Marriage of Figaro', 'Don Giovanni' and 'Cosi fan tutte' (7,2,5)
- 8. Italian composer whose opera inaugurated the La Scala opera house in 1778 (7,7)
- 9. Australian soprano known as “the other Joan” (4,6)
- 12. A recurring musical phrase used in opera associated with a particular person, idea or place (9)
- 14. The villain in 'Tosca' (7)
- 16. American mezzo who dubbed Dorothy Dandridge in the musical film 'Carmen Jones' (7,5)
- 17. Country where 'Lucia di Lammermoor' is set (8)
- 18. The original purpose for the Playhouse at Sydney Opera House (6)
- 19. Composer of Australian opera 'Voss' (7,5)
Down
- 1. The lowest female operatic voice type (9)
- 2. The first opera in the Ring Cycle (3,9)
- 3. Rosina from 'The Barber of Seville' becomes this character in 'The Marriage of Figaro' (8,8)
- 5. The first opera performed at the Sydney Opera House (3,3,5)
- 6. Colline’s occupation in 'La Bohème' (11)
- 7. Opera composer who wrote the famous can-can music (7,9)
- 10. The 1990s musical based on 'La Bohème' (4)
- 11. The writer upon whose play Strauss’s 'Salome' is based (5,5)
- 13. Mozart’s age when he composed his first opera (6)
- 15. The composer whose music is blasted from US Forces helicopters in the movie 'Apocalypse Now' (6)
- 20. The opera featuring the famous 'Flower Duet' for soprano and mezzo (5)