opera crossword puzzle

4. along accompanied song for a solo voice typically one in an opera or oratorio.
7. an instrument that has second lowest in pitch in the brass family.
12. a large keyboard musical instrument with a wooden case enclosing a soundboard and metal strings, which are struck by hammers when the keys are depressed. The strings' vibration is stopped by dampers when the keys are released, and it can be regulated for length and volume by two or three pedals.
13. a group of instrumentalists, esp. one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
14. orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments
16. used to express approval when a performer or other person
18. the highest of the four standard singing voices.
19. elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody, esp. in operatic singing by a soprano.
22. a voice, instrument, or sound of the lowest range, in particular.
23. a voice, instrument, or part below the highest range and above tenor, in particular.
24. a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range.
26. a thing at which someone excels.

1. Leitmotif a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
2. exclamation(feminine of bravo)
3. realism in the arts, esp. late 19th-century Italian opera
5. a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
6. the text of an opera or other long vocal work.
8. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
9. with a gradual decrease in volume and often tempo.
10. done something well.
11. performance by two people, esp. singers, instrumentalists, or dancers.
15. a large organized group of singers, esp. one that performs together with an orchestra or opera company.
17. with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.
20. an introduction to something more substantial.
21. 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.
25. a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.