What the Fach

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Across
  1. 3. Voice type with a warm, melodic quality
  2. 8. Vocal fireworks; known for agility
  3. 10. The range in which a role mostly sits, not just its extremes
  4. 11. The rarest female voice type, known for its richness and depth
  5. 12. Voice type between contralto and soprano
Down
  1. 1. German for “heroic tenor,” often found in Wagner operas
  2. 2. A weighty voice type, often heroic or intense in character
  3. 4. German system for classifying opera voices and roles
  4. 5. Male voice that sits between tenor and bass
  5. 6. A light-voiced soprano often cast as the maid or flirt in comic operas
  6. 7. The act of selecting singers for roles, ideally based on Fach
  7. 9. The lowest male voice