Opera Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. The lowest singing pitch or range
  2. 4. A dramatic art form with one or more acts, and a genre of classical music.
  3. 6. The term used for how soft or loud you should play/sing
  4. 8. When you play softly, you’re playing ______
  5. 12. Sophisticated word for the beginning of an opera or piece of music
  6. 13. What a conductor uses to open an opera or musical, with orchestral and vocal parts.
  7. 14. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
  8. 18. A female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
  9. 21. A repeating theme throughout a musical composition, normally with a certain person, idea, or situation.
  10. 22. When someone sings well at the end of the song you say this.
  11. 23. Singing voice below a tenor, but higher than a bass.
  12. 24. When singing, it’s the part above a baritone, but below an alto
  13. 25. When singing, it’s the part above a tenor but below soprano.
Down
  1. 1. When you play really loud, you’re playing _____
  2. 2. The feminine version of saying bravo to a singer
  3. 3. A group of singers is a ____
  4. 5. The text of an opera
  5. 7. A long accompanied song for a solo voice.
  6. 8. How an opera singer sings to the whole audience
  7. 9. This is a genre in opera, a “realism” in the arts in the 19th century Italian opera.
  8. 10. Well thought out vocal melody, often sung by a soprano.
  9. 11. When two people are singing a song together it’s a ____
  10. 13. When a musician plays a note sharply and there’s space between the notes
  11. 15. Meaning smooth connected notes
  12. 16. A speechlike vocal style used in the conversations of a opera.
  13. 17. An introductory piece of music, mostly an opening to an act of an opera from the orchestra.
  14. 19. A group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
  15. 20. When singing, it’s the part above all other singing voices