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Bizet opera that opened PO's 22-23 season
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Nassief who is Portland State University's new Director of Opera
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PO's intimate performance center on the east end of the Tilikum Crossing Bridge
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Soprano Beverly, aka Bubbles, who brought the Queen of the Night to life
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The Marx Bros. caricatured opera in their 1935 movie "A Night __ the Opera"
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Verdi's character Aida is called "a ___ girl from Egypt"
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In "La fille du régiment," Maria, the canteen girl, is told she's the Marquise's _____, and is supposed to marry her cousin but then finds out the Marquise is really her mother and then...ah, well, it's opera
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In 1504 Michelangelo's "David" was adorned with a copper garland of ___ leaves
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Postal abbreviation of state whose capital is Providence
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Role created by tenor Peter Pears in Britten's "Curlew River"
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French word for black (feminine)
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The first ____ in Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" leads to the deep red Torture Chamber
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One opera company's media blast called "Sweeney Todd" a musical with a lot of ____. Eww.
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Small rodent or a squealer
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Lead female role in a Peking opera
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That drink with jam and bread
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Actress/screenwriter Thompson of "Love Actually," "Nanny McFee," and "Sense and Sensibility"
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Opera or movie house, to a Brit
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Approximate hour at which one gets to their destination, briefly
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Designating a degree and license in nursing, briefly
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Homeowner Association, briefly
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Composer of "The Barber of Seville" and 38 other operas
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Extended vocal solo in an opera
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PO artists take opera out to schools in the "Portland Opera __ __" program
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Bound volume of sheet music
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Feathered character in "The Magic Flute"
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Don Giovanni says he loves to ___ when hungry people look on
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_____ room (adequate space)
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Bartók's Bluebeard believes life is best when a wife _____ her husband
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Postal abbreviation of the Golden State
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Leading male role in George Gershwin's only full-length opera
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Eponymous water sprite in Dvořák's most popular opera
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PDX Venue for PO's large-scale productions
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"La ______" (Puccini opera about Mimì and her free-spirited friends)