Friday Opera Crossword #1

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Across
  1. 2. Dame Joan Sutherland’s signature role (5)
  2. 5. John Adams opera, '_____ in China'(5)
  3. 7. The home of the famed La Scala opera house (5)
  4. 8. The subject of the opera 'Satyagraha' (7,6)
  5. 9. The earliest composition considered ‘opera’ (5)
  6. 14. The mythical creature Fafner transforms into in the Ring Cycle (6)
  7. 15. The diva known as 'La Superba' (10,7)
  8. 17. Leontyne Price’s farewell operatic role (4)
  9. 18. The setting of 'Carmen' (7)
  10. 19. Australian soprano June Bronhill’s birthplace (6,4)
Down
  1. 1. The singer known as 'King of the high Cs' (7,9)
  2. 3. The NSW Premier who commissioned the Sydney Opera House (6,6)
  3. 4. Pinkerton in the Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of 'Madama Butterfly' (6,6)
  4. 6. The first director of Germany’s Bayreuth Festival (7,6)
  5. 8. Musical based on 'Madama Butterfly' (4,6)
  6. 10. The most performed opera in the world (2,8)
  7. 11. Papageno's ('The Magic Flute') occupation (4,7)
  8. 12. Rossini’s final opera (7,4)
  9. 13. According to Turandot, what is born each night and dies each dawn? (4)
  10. 16. Beethoven's only opera (7)