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Opera here there and everywhere

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Across
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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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Produce a vocal sound
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Small rodent or a squealer
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Antonym of yes
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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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Cranberry environment
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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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Leave out
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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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"__ the world turns"
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"Thus," in Latin
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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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__ be or not __ be
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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)
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Clothes worn on the stage
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"The Green ____" (prison-based novel by Stephen King)
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Nickname of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe
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Distinct period of history
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Someone who practices a creative skill
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Escamillo's profession in "Carmen" (no bull)
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"___ Dorma" ("Turandot" aria made into a pop song by Pavarotti in 1972)
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Verdi opera set in Egypt
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A single brick in a child's construction set
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American operatic mezzo Shirley
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Opera seria by Mozart set on the island of Crete
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Strauss who wrote "Die Fledermaus"
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"____ the Woods" (fairy-tale musical by Stephen Sondheim)
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Common abbreviation of "that is" in Latin
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Moved faster than walking
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Gandhi who's served as Artistic Director of PO since 2021
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In "Thumbprint," what the soprano, for once, DOESN'T do
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Title character of a Puccini opera who kills Scarpia and flings herself over the castle parapet to end the drama... ah, well, its opera.
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Alexander ___ fils, who wrote the story on which "La Traviata" is based
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Insect that flies in Rimsky-Korsakov's "Tale of Tsar Saltan"
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Breakfast grain
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Postgrad who helps instruct college students, briefly
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Giuseppi who wrote 28 operas, including "La forza del destino" and "Otello"
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Philip Glass opera about the life of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh
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2022 film starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renowned conductor
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Like William the Conqueror or operatic soprano Jessye
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Perch, as on a chair
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Tenor Bernard who debuted in PDX in last year's "Central Park Five" and soloed in Damien Geter's "An African American Requiem"
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Un-acted musical performances
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What someone has when they say "Aha!" or "Eureka!"
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Soprano Price
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Singing resident of Fleet Street or Seville
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Composer of Portland Opera's upcoming production "Rusalka"
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The MUNY, the largest outdoor municipal theater in the US, opened with "Aida" in 1917 in __. Louis, MO
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"She'll come through; you can ____ on her"
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Surface measurement
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Lepidoptera character in Britten's "Midsummer Night's Dream"
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Nkeiru Okoye's opera "We've Got Our ___ on You" has been called "outrageously oddball"
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Automobile