opera crossword puzzle

2. excelling
4. 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
7. orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments.
8. the ability to make a sound, especially the voice, heard at a distance.
10. Low vocal range
13. the text of an opera or other long vocal work
16. An elaborate ornamentation for a soprano.
18. smooth flowing manner
20. Many people singing in unison
21. realism in the arts, especially late 19th-century Italian opera
23. feminine of bravo
24. a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range.
25. Lowest vocal range
26. 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

1. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
3. an introduction to something more substantial.
5. a long accompanied song for a solo voice
6. Loud and soft ranges
7. the highest of the four standard singing voices.
9. 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.
11. with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.
12. a group of instrumentalists, especially one combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music
14. Male vocal range between tenor and bass
15. two people singing together
17. a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation
19. a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.
22. Soprano-a female singer with a voice pitched between soprano and contralto
23. rewarding comment for a great act