Opera Crossword puzzle.

2. What a conductor uses to open an opera or musical, with orchestral and vocal parts.
3. The feminine version of saying bravo to a singer
7. Sophisticated word for the beginning of an opera or piece of music
8. Singing voice below a tenor, but higher than a bass.
12. A female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto.
13. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
15. A long accompanied song for a solo voice.
18. A dramatic art form with one or more acts, and a genre of classical music.
19. A group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music.
20. A group of singers is a ____
21. A repeating theme throughout a musical composition, normally with a certain person, idea, or situation.
23. When singing, it’s the part above a tenor but below soprano.
25. The lowest singing pitch or range
26. When you play really loud, you’re playing _____

1. The text of an opera
2. When singing, it’s the part above all other singing voices
4. How an opera singer sings to the whole audience
5. The term used for how soft or loud you should play/sing
6. An introductory piece of music, mostly an opening to an act of an opera from the orchestra.
9. Well thought out vocal melody, often sung by a soprano.
10. When you play softly, you’re playing ______
11. A speechlike vocal style used in the conversations of a opera.
14. When singing, it’s the part above a baritone, but below an alto
16. When someone sings well at the end of the song you say this.
17. When a musician plays a note sharply and there’s space between the notes
21. Meaning smooth connected notes
22. This is a genre in opera, a “realism” in the arts in the 19th century Italian opera.
24. When two people are singing a song together it’s a ____