Referring Clues

• Soap ___
• Paris cultural center
• Mozart offering
• "Orfeo," e.g.
• "Lulu," e.g.
• Beethoven wrote just one
• "Otello," e.g.
• Kind of hat or house
• 16-Down, for one
• "Don Giovanni," for one
• "La Bohème," e.g.
• Field of buffos
• Work for Moffo or a buffo
• Aria area
• Paris landmark, with "L'"
• "The Barber of Seville," e.g.
• "Falstaff" or "Fidelio"
• La Scala offering
• "Hänsel und Gretel," e.g.
• Part of Mozart's art
• Word after grand or soap
• "Don Giovanni," for example
• "Carmen," e.g.
• "Lohengrin," e.g.
• Where to hear a 14-Across
• Where to hear an aria
• Met offering
• 35-Down, for one
• Verdi work
• What the fat lady sings?
• Kind of glasses
• Comic ___
• Theater offering
• See 21-Across
• "Wozzeck," e.g.
• "The Magic Flute," e.g.
• "Pagliacci," e.g.
• 14-Across, e.g.
• "Faust," e.g.
• Rameau work
• Field of Battle
• Kiri Te Kanawa's milieu
• Collected works
• "Norma," for one
• "Tosca," e.g.
• Works
• Wagner work
• Setting for a 1935 Marx Brothers farce
• "William Tell," e.g.
• "Nixon in China," for one
• Sydney ___ House
• Word with buff or buffa
• Gounod production
• "Il Trovatore," e.g.
• Where you might take a lorgnette
• Bizet work
• ___ box (private area in a theater)
• Phantom's haunt
• "Martha" or "Norma"
• Met production
• "Fidelio," for one
• 6-Across, e.g.
• Word with light or horse
• "Dido and Aeneas," for an early English example
• Plural of 21-Across
• La Scala production
• Musical work featuring 3-Down
• Activity for some season ticket holders   
• Word with light or rock
• Paris Métro station next to a music center
• Place to find a C-note?
• Adams's "Nixon in China," e.g.
• "Idomeneo," e.g.
• Lincoln Center offering
• "Faust" or "Don Giovanni"
• Numbered works
• "La Traviata," e.g.
• See 29-Down
• Work with choruses
• Glass work
• "Tosca" or "Thaïs"
• Puccini production
• Wagner composition
• Price production
• Metropolitan ___ (part of Lincoln Center)
• Musical work that's often not in English
• Spear carrier's venue
• Puccini's "Tosca," for one
• Covent Garden offering
• Beethoven wrote only one
• The Who's "Tommy," for instance
• Show at La Scala
• Horse or soap follower
• "Hänsel und Gretel," for one
• "Tommy" or "Tosca"
• "Deidamia" was Handel's last
• "The Bartered Bride," e.g.
• The Who's "Tommy," for one
• Kind of glasses or hat
• "Peter Grimes," for one
• "Die Fledermaus," for one
• Horse ___ (western)
• Impresario's production, perhaps
• "Nixon in China", for one
• Where the fat lady sings
• "Falstaff," e.g.
• What Met tickets might be for
• "Carmen" or "Aida"
• Met performance
• La Scala staging
• Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro," for one
• "Peter Grimes" or "Porgy and Bess"
• Verdi production
• "Nixon in 53-Down," for one
• "Carmen," for one
• "Lulu," "Louise," "Norma," or "Carmen"
• "Il Trovatore," for one
• Certain singer's site
• Verdi's "Aida," for one
• "Falstaff," for one
• Word after soap or space
• Word before hat or glasses
• Lincoln Center attraction
• "Faust," for one
• "Billy Budd" or "Paul Bunyan"
• Diva's place
• Price milieu
• "The Phantom of the ___"
• Impresario's show, perhaps
• Word after space or soap
• "Genoveva" was the only one written by Robert Schumann
• "La Boheme," for one
• "The Marriage of Figaro," for one
• Verdi forte
• Kind of hat or glasses
• Handel's "Lotario," e.g.
• Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades," e.g.
• Occasion for glasses
• "Tommy," for one
• "Tosca," for one
• "William Tell" or "Robin Hood"
• La Scala feature
• Diva's setting
• Word with soap or grand
• "Carmen" or "Così Fan Tutte"
• Setting for a Marx Brothers movie
• Word after horse or soap
• Show with a spear-carrier
• Word with light or space
• Word after horse or before house
• La Scala performance
• Mozart work
• "A Night at the ___"
• "___ in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian": H.L. Mencken
• "What's ___, Doc?" (famed Bugs Bunny cartoon)
• Met tragedy, maybe?
• 77-Across is one
• Marx Brothers setting
• 33-Down's field
• Where glasses may be raised?
• Soap or horse follower
• Event at L.A.'s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
• P.D.Q. Bach's "The Stoned Guest," e.g.
• Dvorák's "Rusalka," e.g.
• Impresario's presentation
• Met staple
• Comic ___
• ___ glasses
• Puccini's forte
• Mozart's "Idomeneo," e.g.
• One of four in Wagner's Ring cycle
• Soap ___
• Bloch's "Macbeth," e.g.
• Bizet's "Carmen," e.g.
• Ponchielli's "La Gioconda," e.g.
• Performance at the Met
• See 17-Across
• "Nixon in China", e.g.
• Musical drama
• Puccini genre
• Puccini presentation
• Puccini performance
• Dramatic musical work
• "Ada", for one
• "Otello", for one
• "Don Giovanni", for one
• Verdi genre
• Mezzo-soprano's gig
• Drama with music
• Offenbach offering
• Bizet offering
• "Rigoletto", for one
• Gig for a soprano
• Verdi specialty
• Soprano's gig
• Pavarotti performance
• Mozart genre
• Music with arias
• "Carmen" or "Tosca"
• La Scala show
• Concert performance
• Light ___
• "Norma" or "Fidelio"
• Rossini genre
• Wagnerian production
• Puccini work
• "Otello", for example
• Drama with divas
• Literally, "works". . .
• Composer's works
• Puccini output
• Sung drama
• Phantom's hangout
• Puccini piece
• Wagner genre
• "The Magic Flute", e.g.
• Type of house or glasses
• Word with "soap" or "grand"
• "Don Giovanni," for one
• Gig for Domingo
• Drama set to music
• Giacomo Puccini specialty
• Handel's "Deidamia," for one
• Covent Garden staging
• Wagner specialty
• "Fidelio" is one
• "Faust," for one
• "Fidelio" was Beethoven's only one
• Comic work, perhaps
• "Fidelio," for one
• "Faust" or "Don Giovanni"
• Passion of a noted phantom
• "Einstein on the Beach," e.g.
• Flagstad's field
• "Carmen" or "Aida"
• It might end on a high note
• Juilliard major
• House type
• Drama at La Scala
• "Lulu" or "Norma"
• Paris landmark (with "L"')
• Covent Garden presentation
• "Carmen," e.g.
• Phantom's passion
• "The Barber of Seville," e.g.
• "Die Walkure," e.g.
• "The Magic Flute," e.g.
• It may be light or grand
• Kathleen Battle's bag
• "Norma" for one
• "Porgy and Bess," for one
• Setting for an aria
• "Tosca" or "Thais," e.g.
• Kathleen Battle's field
• Where the Marx Bros. spent the night
• Domingo's domain
• "Dido and Aeneas," for one
• "Ernani," e.g.
• Type of hat or glasses
• Where the Marx Brothers spent the night
• Word with horse or soap
• "Billy Budd" for one
• Musical extravaganza
• "The Pirates of Penzance," notably
• Reason to buy Met tickets, perhaps
• House where some wear glasses
• Type of glasses
• Word with soap or horse
• Janacek work
• Lincoln Center presentation
• Bizet creation
• Mozart specialty
• Type of ticket
• Where some divas get a hearing?
• Place to take your glasses
• Beethoven wrote one
• "Billy Budd," e.g.
• Venue for Moffo or a buffo
• Met fare
• Teatro La Fenice offering
• Highbrow musical form
• Something to see at the Met
• "Nixon in China "is one
• "Grand" music
• Work on a grand scale
• Word after soap or horse
• "Nixon in China," e.g.
• It literally means "works"
• Setting for a Marx Brothers farce
• Work at La Scala
• It may be watched with binoculars
• Puccini offering
• Gig for a tenor
• Certain company's concern
• Works in the music business
• Phantom's haunt, on Broadway
• Word with grand or soap
• Mozart medium
• "The Magic Flute," for one
• "Falstaff," for example
• Musical melodrama
• Lincoln Center production
• Workplace where there are many openings
• "What's ___, Doc?": Classic "Looney Tunes" short
• Meyerbeer composition
• Wagner creation
• Musical spectacle
• Threepenny entertainment?
• Met tragedy, perhaps?
• "Tosca" or "Pagliacci"
• Where Otis B. Driftwood spent the night
• The Marx Brothers spent a night there
• It may be comic
• Verdi opus
• Mayerbeer composition
• "Porgy and Bess," for one
• "Lulu" or "Norma"
• Paris landmark (with "L"')
• "Fidelio" is one
• "Fidelio" was Beethoven's only one
• "Einstein on the Beach," e.g.
• "Die Walkure," e.g.
• Word with "soap" or "grand"
• ___ glasses
• "What's ___, Doc?": Classic "Looney Tunes" short
• Rock or soap follower
• Luciano's love
• "The Magic Flute", e.g.
• "Nixon in China", e.g.
• "Ada", for one
• "Otello", for one
• "Don Giovanni", for one
• "Rigoletto", for one
• "Carmen" or "Tosca"
• Light ___
• "Norma" or "Fidelio"
• "Otello", for example
• Literally, "works"...
• Price performance
• Britten creation
• Firefox alternative
• Where to shout to a diva
• Subject of Wayne Koestenbaum's "The Queen's Throat"
• "The Makropulos Affair," for one
• Sung story
• Wagner opus
• "Of all the noises known to man, ___ is the most expensive": Molière
• Battle field
• Musical theatre
• Carmen or Aida
• Horse ____
• Word with soap
• Soap or horse follower
• Covent Garden fare
• Wagner's opus
• Musical genre with its own glasses
• Word with "glasses" or "buff"
• Broadway phantom's haunt
• Record store section
• Word with soap
• "No good ___ plot can be sensible ...": W. H. Auden
• Adams's "Nixon in China," for one
• "Anna Bolena" or "Anna Nicole"
• Event to watch with binoculars
• Spear-carrier's genre, sometimes
• Dramatic work
• Puccini work
• Phantom's bailiwick
• 'Turandot,' e.g.
• 'Fidelio,' e.g.
• 'Tosca,' for one
• 'Tosca' or 'Turandot'
• 'Fidelio' is one
• 'Tosca,' e.g.
• Met work
• Met show
• Met music
• Met doings
• Massenet creation
• Met business
• Verdi creation
• 'Tha•s,' e.g.
• 'Rigoletto,' for one
• Verdi field
• Wagner forte
• Puccini creation
• Met activity
• 'Carmen,' for one
• 'William Tell,' e.g.
• 'Fidelio' or 'Faust'
• Musical show
• 'Turandot' or 'Tosca'
• Phantom's domain
• Beethoven's 'Fidelio,' e.g.
• 'Fidelio,' for one
• Phantom's place
• Sometimes it's grand
• 'A Night at the ___'
• Phantom's mecca
• 'Carmen,' e.g.
• Phantom's territory
• Phantom's entertainment
• Met show
• Pavarotti's field
• Met offering
• With 110-Across, where divas deliver
• Verdi's forte
• 'Aida,' e.g.
• 'Otello,' e.g.
• 'Aida' is one
• Met staging
• An aria is part of it
• An aria is a part of it
• "Lucrezia Borgia," for one
• "Lohengrin," for one
• Literally, "works"
• Highbrow musical entertainment
• Verdi music
• Strauss's "Die Fledermaus," for one
• See 108-Across
• "William Tell," for one
• Horse follower
• Horse___
• Massenet work
• Pavarotti milieu
• Price performance?
• "William Tell" or "Falstaff"
• The Magic Flute, for one
• Music with singing sopranos
• One may be seen from a box
• Word with grand or light
• 33 Down, for instance
• Musical melodrama, often
• Britten's "Billy Budd," e.g.
• Soprano gig
• High-culture work
• Reason to buy Met tickets
• "Louise" or "Norma"
• "Rigoletto" or "Carmen"
• Play for people with pipes, perhaps
• Verdi product
• Bolshoi Theatre offering
• La Boheme or the Bat
• Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one
• Setting for a 1935 Marx Brothers comedy
• Britten's "Billy Budd," for one
• Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte," for example
• Met score
• Beethoven made one
• Met field
• Philip Glass's "Waiting for the Barbarians," e.g.
• Palais Garnier performance
• Buffo's milieu
• Rock or horse follower
• "La Bohème" or "La Traviata"
• 'The Phantom of the ___'
• *Works
• -
• Verdi's "Otello," e.g.
• "L'Africaine," e.g.
• Musical work
• "Macbeth" or "Otello"
• "Der Rosenkavalier," for one
• Covent Garden event
• Grammy category
• Boito's "Mefistofele," e.g.
• "The Tempest" or "Otello"
• Word with soap or space
• 'Orfeo,' e.g.
• "Anna Nicole," for one
• "Aida," for one
• 25-Down, for one
• Phantom's haunt?
• Word before glass or hat
• Where you might want glasses
• "The Cloak" or "The Bat," e.g.
• Where workers may sing for their supper
• Work with a libretto
• Grand art form
• 32-Across, e.g.
• Where to hear "Bravo!" and "Brava!"
• Smetana's "The Bartered Bride," e.g.
• Horse ___
• One may be seen with glasses
• See 35-Across
• Tuneful presentation
• "Carmen" or "Aida" e.g.
• 'Ernani,' e.g.
• Giuseppe Verdi production
• Horse
• Bolshoi Theatre production
• ___ house
• Kind of house
• What some see with Met tickets
• One about Jerry Springer debuted in 2003
• "Siegfried," e.g.
• Show with much singing
• Renée Fleming's field
• "Aida" or "Carmen"
• Verdi offering
• Julliard major
• "Lohengrin" or "Tannhäuser"
• Where to hear high C's
• Mozart's "Don Giovanni," e.g.
• Grammy Award category
• La Scala presentation
• "Aida" or Tosca," e.g.
• 'La Bohme,' e.g.
• "Tommy", e.g.
• Adams' "Nixon in China," for one
• Sills' specialty
• Some people make a big production out of it
• Word with "light" or "soap"
• "Bluebeard's Castle," e.g.
• "The Marriage of Figaro," e.g.
• Met event
• Theatrical work
• Verdi composition
• Butterfly locale?
• Aida or Carmen
• "Carmen" or "Norma"
• "Phantom of the ___"
• 31-Down, for one
• It may be comic or grand
• Barber's "Vanessa," for one
• Donizetti creation
• Work at the Met
• "Don Giovanni" or "Don Pasquale"
• "Cavalleria Rusticana," for one
• "Otello" is one
• "The Girl of the Golden West," for example
• Word before house or after horse
• Met happening
• Alban Berg's "Wozzeck," e.g.
• "What's ___, Doc?" (classic Bugs Bunny short)
• Verdi musical genre
• "Norma" or "Louise"
• Rimsky-Korsakov's "Christmas Eve", e.g.
• Gig for sopranos
• 3 Down, for example
• Fat lady's milieu
• Art form with buffa and seria styles
• "Carmen" or "Rigoletto"
• Phantom's place?
• Show with sopranos
• Horse ___ ("Gunsmoke", e.g.)
• Space ___
• The Who's "Tommy," e.g.
• "Grand" production
• Dvorák's "Rusalka," for one
• "Porgy and Bess," e.g.
• "Aida", before Elton
• See 20 Across
• 28-Across set to music
• "Tosca" or "Carmen"
• Wagnerian work
• Kind of house or glasses
• Buffo's place
• Musical with its own glasses?
• Art form with singing
• Beethoven's "Fidelio," for one
• Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," e.g.
• House work?
• Rossini creation
• "Nixon in China," for example
• Drama with lots and lots of singing
• The Marx Brothers spent a night at one
• "Don Giovanni" is one
• Philip Glass' "Einstein on the Beach," e.g.
• Drama with sopranos
• 'Thaïs,' e.g.
• "thais," e.g.
• Dramatic stage production
• Diva's gig
• Soap ___ (daytime drama)
• 'Ernani,' for one
• Thing to see at La Scala
• Milieu of Callas
• Maria Callas milieu
• "Yolanta," e.g.
• Musical work for sopranos
• Tippett's "King Priam," for one
• With 84-Down, bit of black attire
• Diva's realm
• Word after rock or soap
• 'Amahl and the Night Visitors,' e.g.
• "Amahl and The Night Visitors," e.g.
• "Madama Butterfly," for one
• "Tommy" is one
• Venue for Leroux's phantom
• Diva's show
• "La Boheme," e.g.
• "Madama Butterfly," e.g.
• Met musical
• "The Threepenny ___"
• Met feature
• "Nixon in China", for instance
• Carmen, for instance
• "Cavalleria rusticana", e.g.
• Event with singing only
• Show with singing only
• See 5-down
• Show with all singing
• It's got a libretto
• "What's ___, Doc?" (cartoon with the line "Kill the wabbit...")
• Spear-carrier's performance
• Tough "Jeopardy!" category
• Show requiring a bit of cooperation
• Carmen, say, with some Mini Cooper accessories
• A reporter beginning to turn up for music drama
• Tosca, for example
• Carmen, for example
• "Carmen" is one
• Art form
• Theatrical art form
• "Einstein on the Beach," for one
• Production of all music and singing
• Queen: "A Night at the ___"
• Only the best rockers could also sing this
• Where some metal singers could hang
• "Quadrophenia": The Who's other rock ___
• The Kinks "Preservation Act" was a rock one
• "Tommy" is a rock one
• "Tommy" was a rock one
• Queen had a "Night" at one.
• Australian band Boom Crash ___
• "Tommy" is rock one
• In 2014, Dylan played the Sydney ___ House
• Entertainment
• Norma, say
• La Scala production, perhaps
• Grand or comic work?
• Given time, a small work becomes a major one
• Entertainment offering some hope for an artist
• Aida, for example
• A rope braided for amusement
• Action in theatre taking an age - dramatic entertainment
• 1 down, for example, has no quiet period
• A threepenny performance?
• Piano used in old-time musical entertainment
• Musical production taking a long time?
• Kind of hat for singing in?
• What a composer produces for a long time?
• A rope trick at Covent Garden?
• Fedora is this kind of hat
• Drama with singing
• "Rigoletto", for example
• Show with tunes
• Grand or comic entertainment
• 1-Across, for one
• Latin for "works"
• Work in a theater
• Barber creation
• Here Caruso arrived at work on time
• Ring through with article on musical entertainment
• Comic or grand entertainment?
• Barber work
• Where you might catch a large-mouthed bass
• "The Magic Flute", for example
• Work overtime to produce a show
• Gay work?
• Music and drama production
• Drama set to music
• ... works at the Met
• Performance in the theatre season?
• Ring? Perhaps get a representative to ring back
• Entertainment: "The Ring" for every one?
• It's a drama getting to work on time
• Ring an agent up at Covent Garden?
• Puccini product
• Donizetti specialty
• Dvorak's "Rusalka," e.g.
• Horse trailer?
• Covent Garden production
• "Hansel und Gretel," for one
• Gluck composition, e.g.
• Falstaff or Faust
• You may watch it from a box
• Covent Garden show
• Highbrow show
• Oft-subtitled performance
• "No good ___ plot can be sensible": W.H. Auden
• "How wonderful ___ would be if there were no singers": Rossini
• Meyerbeer's specialty
• Palais Garnier production
• Joan Sutherland's field
• "Of Mice and Men" became one in 1970
• Peter Eötvös's "Angels in America," for one
• Classical musical drama
• The Three Tenors forte
• Musical, The Phantom Of The ___.
• Turandot or La Boheme
• It may be a soap works
• Work-time entertainment
• Joy unconfined! Theatre's brought back a typical 2 work
• Here's old piano - time for musical entertainment
• Operation time for Norma?
• Musical work by Poe ruined artist
• Music drama or comedy
• Drama or comedy set to music
• Entertainment: a short work, but taking time
• See 5
• Leading part in old time musical
• Nixon in China perhaps seeing first half of military manoeuvres
• Musical piece accompanying a stage drama or comedy
• Work (some hope!) rapidly
• Some opening for an artist with words and music
• Musical drama in old age retaining power
• Musical start for poet and painter?
• Horse for Western at work on time
• See 19
• See 6
• Some are possibly taken aback by 12's work
• Norma maybe rejects section of a report
• Word with space or rock
• Place with bassos
• Musical work with arias
• Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," e.g.
• Work often with subtitles
• "Tommy" or "Lohengrin"
• Production with singing only
• Singing production
• Monteverdi work
• Puccini's province
• Type of glasses or hats
• Barber's offering
• "Satyagraha," for one
• Phantom's milieu
• "Carmen" or "Elektra"
• Fancy musical
• "L'Orfeo" or "Otello"
• Rossini work
• "Lakmé" or "Lohengrin"
• Performance with sopranos
• Theatre cancelling 50% of surgical procedures
• Lorgnette event
• Place for 16-Across
• Lincoln Center performance
• Milnes's milieu
• Elaborate musical
• Dvorák's "Rusalka," for one
• Diva's production
• "Tosca" or "Aida"
• Show with its own glasses
• Word following "horse" or "soap"
• Glass creation
• Part of Aida reportedly getting backing - that's what Verdi is famous for
• Place for a masked phantom
• "Grand" musical production
• Unlikely source of a Top 40 song
• Carmen, for example, knotted a rope
• ArkivMusic.com purchase
• "Carmen" or "Porgy and Bess"
• Play with music
• Gig for 8 Down
• Adams' "Nixon in China," e.g.
• Mozart's "Apollo and Hyacinth," e.g.
• "___ in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian": H. L. Mencken
• Space ___ (sci-fi genre)
• Any of 22 Mozart works
• An aged musical work?
• Many a Wagner composition
• Word that can follow the first parts of 17- and 51-Across and 11- and 25-Down
• Work of Bellini or Gounod
• "Don Carlos," "Don Giovanni" or "Don Pasquale"
• It often follows an overture
• Start without new artist in musical drama
• Genre for Puccini and Ponchielli
• See 1-Down
• Tenor's gig
• Gershwin's "Blue Monday," for one
• Stage performance with singing
• Some composer's opus for a long time
• “Mefistofele,” e.g.
• Musical work with sopranos
• Diva's performance
• Where the Marx Brothers famously spent a night
• "Grand" work
• Show with a libretto
• Bizet genre
• Horse trailer?
• Scott Joplin's "Treemonisha," e.g.
• Wagner's "Die Walküre," e.g.
• "La Traviata," for one
• Diva's domain
• "Don Giovanni," e.g.
• 74-Across, e.g.
• Diva's dramatic gig
• Show with arias
• Prepare popular backing section for classical music
• Prima donna's performance
• A rope trick staged
• Musical genre that means "work" in Italian
• Music drama Ted worked on
• Performance often viewed through special glasses
• Gluck's forte
• Jessye Norman performance
• Queen's "A Night at the ___"
• Performance with arias
• Theater production
• Leontyne Price performance
• Music drama
• Zitkala-Sa composed one
• Soprano's performance
• Drama with 30-Down
• "Grand" or "comic" performance
• Musical
• Culture calendar listing
• Musical performance
• 8 Down, for one
• "Nabucco," e.g.
• Work containing 14-Acrosses
• Light ___: Offenbach music genre
• Where trills provide thrills
• Anna Netrebko's music
• "The Magic Flute" is one
• Drama with arias
• Production with arias
• "La Bohème," for one
• Musical work with acts
• Lucia Lucas performance
• Marx Brothers film setting
• Performance with 56-Acrosses
• Performance with a libretto
• "What's ___, Doc?" (old Bugs Bunny short)
• Show for Angela Gheorghiu
• Puccini specialty
• "Carmen" or "Electra"
• Prima donna's show
• Beijing ___ (Chinese art form)
• Performance with divas
• Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman," e.g.
• Performance sometimes seen through glasses
• Where to see a lady in a Viking helmet
• Joyce DiDonato production
• Adrian Angelico performance
• "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" is one
• "Song From the Uproar" is one
• Richard Wagner production
• Shanghai ___ House
• Sung-through performance
• Work with a score
• "Norma" or "Tosca," e.g.
• Space ___ (film genre)
• Unsuk Chin's "Alice in Wonderland," for one
• They say this "ain't over until the fat lady sings"
• "Fidelio" is Beethoven's only one
• Word with box or gloves
• Best ___ Recording (Grammy category)
• Kind of cake with layers of coffee and chocolate
• Work from Bellini or Rossini
• Du Yun's "Angel's Bone," e.g.
• "The Sun Dance ___" (musical work with a libretto by Zitkala-Sa)
• Musical production taking a long time?
• Kind of hat for singing in?
• Genre for composer Terence Blanchard
• Musical "Jeopardy!" category that's tough for many contestants
• Word with rock or soap
• Hanoi ___ House
• John Adams's "Nixon in China," for one
• Met for a few hours in the evening?
• "Aida" or "Lohengrin"
• Field for Maria Callas
• Performance featuring arias
• Word with space or soap
• Dramatic work set to music
• "Rigoletto," e.g.
• Musical work with a libretto
• What a composer produces for a long time?
• A rope trick at Covent Garden?
• 37-Across show
• Musical drama such as "Omar"
• "Carmen" or "The Magic Flute"
• An adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are" is one
• Where there is "too much singing," per Debussy
• Love of Charles Foster Kane in "Citizen Kane"
• Rossini composition
• Met-inee?
• Word with glasses or gloves
• Covent Garden performance
• Of all the noises known to man, it is the most expensive, per an old quip
• Judith Weir composition
• Show such as "Champion"
• Field for a voice major, perhaps
• Word in the title of Broadway's longest-running show
• Edge or Firefox alternative
• Show such as "Porgy and Bess"
• Performance at La Scala
• Performance often accompanied by supertitles
• Puccini's "La Rondine" or "Turandot"
• Glass production?
• Setting of a date for Edward and Vivian in "Pretty Woman"
• Puccini composition
• Show such as "Turandot"
• "La Forza del Destino," for one
• Trilling event, often
• Work traditionally performed without microphones
• Show such as "Awakenings"
• Performance such as "Carmen"
• "Tosca" or "Porgy and Bess"
• Joplin's "Treemonisha," e.g.
• Performance with a pit orchestra
• Setting for 6-Across
• Word after soap or before box
• ___ cake, dessert with layers of sponge, buttercream and ganache
• Glass production
• Work of Puccini or Bellini
• Terence Blanchard work
• "People are wrong when they say ___ is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it": Noël Coward
• Verdi's realm
• "___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley
• Work of Bellini or Bizet
• Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking," for one
• "L'Orfeo" or "Idomeneo"
• Place for binoculars
• "Don Giovanni" genre
• In classical music, a work takes a long time
• One of 22 works by Mozart, but just one work by Beethoven