Opera crossword

We continue a series of musical crosswords. As experience shows, music crossword - the phenomenon is quite popular. Someone entertains such images and develops erudition, but someone solves a problem with homework in music. Today for you opera crossword.

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Well, now is the time to get acquainted with the new crossword puzzle on the theme of opera and tackle it.

Questions horizontal:

1. For what voice was Prince Igor's part written in Borodin’s opera Prince Igor?
2. The character of Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, one of Ruslan’s rivals.
3. Who wrote the operas Eugene Onegin, Queen of Spades, Iolanthe?
4. A musical theme that sounds every time when a character or appearance appears on the stage or when a phenomenon is mentioned, and it takes place at least three times throughout the opera.
5. The first performance of the opera, performance, first presentation of the film.
6. What character in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" was characterized with the song "In the Garden, in the Garden"?
7. A German composer, a major opera reformer, creator of the Ring Nibelungen tetralogy, built a theater in Bayreuth to perform his operas.
8. For what voice was the part of the Fool in the Musorgsky opera Boris Godunov written?
9. What is the name of the orchestral prelude to the opera, written in sonata form?
10. The opera by Verdi, an Italian composer, in which the duke’s famous song "The Heart of Beauties Is Able to Change ...".
11. What is the literary text of the opera?
12. Which of the characters in Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro sings the aria "A playful, curly, in love boy ..."?
13. What is the name of the Italian comic opera genre?
14. What is the name of Mussorgsky's opera, which has an orchestral introduction under the title "Dawn on the Moscow River"?
15. What is the name of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, which the composer called the "spring fairy tale"?
16. Genre serious opera.

Vertical Questions:

1. The author of the first comic opera called "The Handmaid-Mistress".
2. A kind of musical speech that is as close as possible to colloquial, and the way in which the heroes of an opera express themselves on stage.
3. Vocal ensemble of two characters of the opera.
4. One of the types of opera arias, translated from Italian means "little aria".
5. From the works of a Russian poet borrowed scenes from the operas "Eugene Onegin", "Boris Godunov", "Rusalka", "Mozart and Salieri"?
6. The heroine of Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, the wife of Prince Igor.
7. Dargomyzhsky Opera after Pushkin about the miller’s daughter, Natasha, deceived and abandoned by the prince.
8. The country that is home to opera.
9. Large vocal operatic number for one of the singers, in which the emotional state of the character is transmitted.

Crossword Answers

Horizontal: 1. Baritone 2. Farlaf 3. Tchaikovsky 4. Leitmotif 5. Premiere 6. Protein 7. Wagner 8. Tenor 9. Overture 10. Rigoletto 11. Libretto 12. Figaro 13. Buffa 14. Khovanshchina 15. Snow Maiden 16. Seria.

Vertically: 1. Pergolesi 2. Recitative 3. Duet 4. Arietta 5. Pushkin 6. Yaroslavna 7. Mermaid 8. Italy 9. Aria.

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