Friday Opera Crossword #4

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Across
  1. 4. The number of Verdi operas based on Shakespeare plays (5)
  2. 5. Leading female singer (5,5)
  3. 8. Verdi opera about the King of Babylon (7)
  4. 9. Italian river where the last act of 'Rigoletto' is set (6)
  5. 11. The opera adapted by Elton John and Tim Rice into a Broadway musical (4)
  6. 12. Italian city with the world’s longest-operating opera house (6)
  7. 14. The effect of quickly flipping between two separate notes (5)
  8. 15. Dvořák opera about a mermaid (7)
  9. 16. Musical passage at the end of a piece designed to show a singer’s virtuosity (7)
  10. 17. Operatic soprano related to Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick (8,5)
  11. 18. Opera containing the 'Here Comes the Bride' Bridal Chorus (9)
  12. 19. The opera which played a Broadway season in 2003 (2,6)
  13. 20. The number of operas composed by Vincenzo Bellini (3)
Down
  1. 1. Italian writer of the play Puccini based 'Turandot' upon (5,5)
  2. 2. The country where opera was born (5)
  3. 3. The Italian term for a comic opera (5,5)
  4. 6. Composer of 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera 'The Central Park Five' (7,5)
  5. 7. John Steinbeck novel adapted into an opera in 1969 (2,4,3,3)
  6. 10. The first opera written in English (3,5,2,6)
  7. 13. The first opera by Philip Glass (8,2,3,5)