Across
- 3. a group of singers who portray townspeople, guests or other unnamed characters; also refers to the music written for these people
- 4. means 'beautiful song', a style of singing in Baroque/Romantic periods
- 7. an elaborate passage near the end of an aria, which shows off the singer's vocal ability
- 9. the person who supervises all musical detail, rehearsals and leads the orchestra and advises the artistic director
- 12. French light opera of the 18th and 19th centuries
- 15. smooth and flowing line
- 16. the text/words of an opera
- 19. a German form of comic opera with spoken dialogue
- 21. a play with many songs; music drawn from popular folk songs
- 25. a loosely used term, often used interchangeably with comic opera
- 26. basically serious play, frequently using comedy for relief, it only outwardly resembles tragedy
- 29. a type of late 19th and 20th century Italian opera that emphasized realistic subjects
- 31. Middle to low voiced female
- 32. a musical ornament requiring the rapid alternation of two adjacent notes
- 35. the highest natural male voice, not a castrato
- 36. music written for two people to sing together
- 38. a formal song sung by a single vocalist.
- 39. the area of the stage not visible to the audience, usually where the dressing rooms are located.
- 41. the front of the stage nearest the audience
- 43. highest voiced male
- 44. the left side of the stage from the performer's perspective
- 45. an orchestral introduction to the opera, usually played before the acting begins
Down
- 1. a voice that can sing music with many rapid notes, or the music written for such a voice
- 2. a replacement for a particular role in case of illness or emergency
- 5. similar to opera but without acting, costumes, and scenery
- 6. a resting place or close of a passage of music
- 8. musical singing in the rhythm of speech
- 10. a precise Italian definition, meaning Italian comic opera of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- 11. a Baroque aria that repeats the first part of the aria, with different embellishments, after the singing of a contrasting second part
- 13. the muscle which separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity
- 14. Highest voiced female
- 17. middle to lowest voiced male
- 18. literally 'serious opera'. An opera form of the 17th and early 18th centuries
- 20. an instrumental interlude played between acts, or short two-act comic opera played between the acts of an opera seria
- 22. also called "pants role". The part of a male character sung by a mezzo-soprano
- 23. the music of an opera or other musical work in which the parts for different performers appear vertically above one another
- 24. the last musical number of an opera, or of an act of an opera
- 27. decoration or ornament; trills, grace notes, and turns
- 28. the character that a singer portrays
- 30. a major singing role, or the singer who performs such a role
- 33. a section of the opera, play, etc. usually followed by an intermission
- 34. lowest voiced female
- 37. a large painted surface at the rear of the stage
- 40. literally 'texture'; the approximate range of a role or an aria
- 42. the right side of the stage from the performer's perspective