opera cross-word puzzle

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  1. 1. The highest male singing voice/ the lowest female singing voice
  2. 3. a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists
  3. 6. in a smooth, flowing manner, without breaks between notes.plot the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
  4. 8. an introductory piece of music, most commonly an orchestral opening to an act of an opera, the first movement of a suite, or a piece preceding a fugue.
  5. 9. orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments
  6. 11. a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company
  7. 16. an adult male singing voice between tenor and bass or an instrument that is second lowest in pitch in its family
  8. 17. An elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody
  9. 18. soprano a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
  10. 20. a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
  11. 21. a sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others
  12. 23. an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other
  13. 24. composition.
  14. 27. the highest of the four standard singing voices
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  1. 2. a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range
  2. 4. a large keyboard musical instrument
  3. 5. A sound of the lowest range/ The lowest adult singing voice
  4. 6. the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
  5. 7. a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music
  6. 10. a long, accompanied song for a solo voice, typically one in an opera or oratorio
  7. 12. the volume of a sound or note
  8. 13. used to express approval when a performer or other person has done something well.
  9. 14. musical declamation of the kind usual in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio, sung in the rhythm of ordinary speech with many words on the same note
  10. 15. when your voice is loud
  11. 19. a thing at which someone excels.
  12. 22. realism in the arts, especially late 19th-century Italian opera.
  13. 25. a performance by two people, especially singers, instrumentalists, or dancers
  14. 26. exclamation