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OPERA

247 recorded uses

DateClue
2026-09-01"Norma" or "Tosca"
2026-07-15Work with a libretto
2026-06-22Performance at Lincoln Center
2026-04-02One of 22 works by Mozart, but just one work by Beethoven
2026-03-11"Don Giovanni" genre
2026-02-17"L'Orfeo" or "Idomeneo"
2025-12-11Work of Bellini or Bizet
2025-12-08"___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley
2025-09-06"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
2025-07-22Work of Puccini or Bellini
2025-07-05Glass production
2025-06-13___ cake, dessert with layers of sponge, buttercream and ganache
2025-04-21"La Bohème," for one
2025-04-08Word after soap or before box
2025-03-23Setting for 6-Across
2024-12-05"La Forza del Destino," for one
2024-07-19Setting of a date for Edward and Vivian in "Pretty Woman"
2024-07-08Puccini's "La Rondine" or "Turandot"
2024-06-16Performance often accompanied by supertitles
2024-05-08"The Marriage of Figaro," e.g.
2024-04-16Word in the title of Broadway's longest-running show
2024-04-09Field for a voice major, perhaps
2024-03-01Of all the noises known to man, it is the most expensive, per an old quip
2023-12-31Word with space or rock
2023-11-16"Otello," for one
2023-11-09Love of Charles Foster Kane in "Citizen Kane"
2023-10-05Where there is "too much singing," per Debussy
2023-09-21Entertainment one might view from a box
2023-07-24"The Magic Flute," e.g.
2023-01-02"La Bohème" or "La Traviata"
2022-12-21Field for Maria Callas
2022-12-09"Il Trovatore," for one
2022-12-05"Aida" or "Lohengrin"
2022-11-05Met for a few hours in the evening?
2022-10-18John Adams's "Nixon in China," for one
2022-10-05Word with rock or soap
2022-06-22Work from Bellini or Rossini
2022-06-17Word with light or space
2022-05-27Kind of cake with layers of coffee and chocolate
2022-05-22Best ___ Recording (Grammy category)
2022-04-10Word with box or gloves
2022-01-25"Fidelio" is Beethoven's only one
2021-11-22"Tosca" or "Turandot"
2021-11-15They say this "ain't over until the fat lady sings"
2021-11-08"Carmen" or "Elektra"
2021-10-27Unsuk Chin's "Alice in Wonderland," for one
2021-09-19Literally, "works"
2021-08-29"What's ___, Doc?" (old Bugs Bunny short)
2021-08-09"The Phantom of the ___"
2021-08-05Grammy category
2021-05-04"La Bohème," for one
2021-04-14"The Barber of Seville," e.g.
2021-02-21Where trills provide thrills
2020-08-16"Einstein on the Beach," e.g.
2020-04-06"Madama Butterfly," for one
2020-02-19"Don Giovanni," e.g.
2020-02-01Covent Garden offering
2020-01-29"La Traviata," for one
2019-12-13Works
2019-12-04Where the Marx Brothers famously spent a night
2019-09-16Genre for Puccini and Ponchielli
2019-06-27Work of Bellini or Gounod
2019-04-13"___ in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian": H. L. Mencken
2019-01-24Unlikely source of a Top 40 song
2018-12-08Word with light or rock
2018-08-06"The Magic Flute," for one
2018-07-30Met performance
2018-06-13"Lakmé" or "Lohengrin"
2018-02-10Word with space or rock
2018-01-01"Madama Butterfly," for one
2017-12-10With 84-Down, bit of black attire
2017-03-07Sydney ___ House
2017-02-26Grammy category
2016-12-18The Marx Brothers spent a night at one
2016-09-13"Macbeth" or "Otello"
2016-09-08Grammy category
2016-06-30"Porgy and Bess," e.g.
2016-05-05Soap ___
2016-04-14Space ___
2016-02-01"Carmen" or "Rigoletto"
2015-11-26"What's ___, Doc?" (classic Bugs Bunny short)
2015-11-11Alban Berg's "Wozzeck," e.g.
2015-09-30"Cavalleria Rusticana," for one
2015-09-14"Don Giovanni" or "Don Pasquale"
2015-08-30Word with light or horse
2015-08-10La Scala offering
2015-04-12Setting for a Marx Brothers farce
2015-02-28"Bluebeard's Castle," e.g.
2014-11-19Record store section
2014-10-26"Siegfried," e.g.
2014-07-26Horse ___
2014-06-18Where to hear "Bravo!" and "Brava!"
2013-12-1425-Down, for one
2013-11-05Boito's "Mefistofele," e.g.
2013-09-27Grammy category
2013-09-22Covent Garden performance
2013-09-02"Der Rosenkavalier," for one
2013-07-28"L'Africaine," e.g.
2013-06-16*Works
2013-06-16-
2013-06-10"La Bohème" or "La Traviata"
2013-03-17Setting for a 1935 Marx Brothers comedy
2013-03-13Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one
2012-11-02High-culture work
2012-10-24Kind of glasses
2012-05-28"William Tell," for one
2012-05-27See 108-Across
2012-05-09Strauss's "Die Fledermaus," for one
2012-05-01"Falstaff" or "Fidelio"
2011-10-13"Anna Bolena" or "Anna Nicole"
2011-08-19"No good ___ plot can be sensible ...": W. H. Auden
2011-07-28Record store section
2011-06-01"The Makropulos Affair," for one
2010-12-30Workplace where there are many openings
2010-12-19Lincoln Center production
2010-09-21Word with grand or soap
2010-09-12Works in the music business
2010-07-20Setting for a Marx Brothers farce
2010-05-28Work on a grand scale
2010-03-31Teatro La Fenice offering
2009-10-26"Tosca," for one
2009-09-01Musical work that's often not in English
2009-06-02Wagner composition
2009-04-19"Nixon in China," for one
2009-02-08Price production
2008-12-13Work with choruses
2008-10-20Puccini production
2008-07-14"Tosca" or "Thaïs"
2008-01-26Glass work
2007-12-28Place to find a C-note?
2007-10-02"La Traviata," e.g.
2007-09-29See 29-Down
2007-08-22Paris Métro station next to a music center
2007-06-06Lincoln Center offering
2007-06-03"Idomeneo," e.g.
2007-03-28Numbered works
2007-03-26"Faust" or "Don Giovanni"
2006-12-18Plural of 21-Across
2006-10-28Word with light or rock
2006-10-19Activity for some season ticket holders
2006-08-20"Dido and Aeneas," for an early English example
2006-08-18Word with light or horse
2006-08-03Puccini production
2006-06-19Musical work featuring 3-Down
2006-04-196-Across, e.g.
2006-01-17La Scala production
2005-12-08Phantom's haunt
2005-11-22"Fidelio," for one
2005-11-14Met production
2005-06-22"Martha" or "Norma"
2005-06-19Bizet work
2005-04-08Bizet work
2004-08-03Gounod production
2004-06-13Where you might take a lorgnette
2004-06-08Met offering
2004-05-31"La Bohème," e.g.
2004-04-27Met offering
2004-04-22Word with buff or buffa
2004-01-27"Il Trovatore," e.g.
2003-10-29Sydney ___ House
2003-04-11"Nixon in China," for one
2002-12-30"Tosca," e.g.
2002-11-27"William Tell," e.g.
2002-07-20Setting for a 1935 Marx Brothers farce
2002-07-15Wagner work
2002-06-23Works
2002-04-17"Norma," for one
2002-01-11Works
2001-11-27Kiri Te Kanawa's milieu
2001-10-22Where to hear an aria
2001-09-12Collected works
2001-08-2214-Across, e.g.
2001-08-06"Pagliacci," e.g.
2001-07-30"La Bohème," e.g.
2001-07-18Rameau work
2001-03-04Field of Battle
2001-01-29"Faust," e.g.
2000-12-25Met offering
2000-11-19Theater offering
2000-10-26"Wozzeck," e.g.
2000-10-17La Scala offering
2000-10-03See 21-Across
2000-09-11"The Magic Flute," e.g.
2000-08-28"Lohengrin," e.g.
2000-07-1435-Down, for one
2000-05-20Comic ___
2000-05-14Kind of glasses
2000-04-24Where to hear an aria
2000-04-03Where to hear a 14-Across
2000-03-29What the fat lady sings?
2000-03-20Verdi work
1999-11-29"Don Giovanni," for example
1999-10-18"Carmen," e.g.
1999-09-06"Lohengrin," e.g.
1999-08-08"Hänsel und Gretel," e.g.
1999-07-21Part of Mozart's art
1999-06-21Word after grand or soap
1999-04-14La Scala offering
1998-07-27"The Barber of Seville," e.g.
1998-06-29"The Barber of Seville," e.g.
1998-03-09"Falstaff" or "Fidelio"
1998-02-26Work for Moffo or a buffo
1998-01-28Paris landmark, with "L'"
1998-01-04Aria area
1997-10-30Field of buffos
1997-10-13"La Bohème," e.g.
1997-08-17Kind of hat or house
1997-07-15"Don Giovanni," for one
1997-04-16"Otello," e.g.
1997-01-1216-Down, for one
1996-12-18Mozart offering
1996-12-15Paris cultural center
1996-12-02Soap ___
1996-11-29Beethoven wrote just one
1996-11-24"Lulu," e.g.
1996-11-08"Orfeo," e.g.
1996-09-24"Pagliacci," for one
1996-09-19La Scala production
1996-07-23Donizetti work
1996-06-25"Pagliacci," e.g.
1996-06-03"Tosca" or "Thais," e.g.
1996-05-12Gig for Domingo
1996-05-01La Scala performance
1996-04-24"Ernani," e.g.
1996-04-12Battle field?
1996-02-21"Le Coq d'Or," e.g.
1996-02-05Met offering
1996-02-04Milieu of 99-Down
1996-01-11"Thaïs," e.g.
1996-01-04"Lulu," e.g.
1995-07-05Output of 42-Down
1995-05-08"Carmen," e.g.
1995-04-12Dvorak's "Russia," e.g.
1995-03-27"Fidelio," e.g.
1995-01-23"Carmen" or "Aida"
1994-12-29"Pique Dame," e.g.
1994-09-05Puccini product
1994-08-31"La Gioconda," e.g.
1994-08-07"Yolanta," e.g.
1994-07-19It may be seria or buffa
1994-06-03"Simon Boccanegra," e.g.
1994-02-25Works
1994-01-27"Siegfried," e.g.
1994-01-20"Lakme," e.g.
1994-01-02Threepenny entertainment?
1993-12-06Where the fat lady sings
1993-11-29"Faust," for one