18 vvvvvvMay 2017

Crossword by Boffles

Opera Festival

Across

    1  Help a? (4)

    3  Dirty Don (8)

    8  Madame Butterfly was one of them (7)

  10  Guess what? – the Enchanted one was a prince after all (3)

  11  Very English composer who dabbled once with a Spanish Lady (5)

  12  Can be comic but are often this (6)

  14  The bartered bride became Jenik’s (6)

  16  Tristan eventually finds love with her (6)

  19  Herring who worked in a greengrocer’s (6)

  21  Can be comic or this (5)

  24  Ariadne was left on her ….. on Naxos by Theseus (3)

  25  Ades one based, like so many, on a Shakespeare play (7)

  26  Cretan king a subject for both Mozart and Strauss (8)

  27  Position of Cherubino (4)

 

Down

    1  Visited under duress by an Italian girl (7)

    2  They often end with the heroine doing so – for example, Violetta or Mimi (5)

    4  Based on a Shakespeare play but left unfinished by Smetana (5)

    5  Descriptive of a Figaro one (7)

    6  Otello character (4)

    7  Quite a contingent of them in the Beggars Opera (6)

    9  Designed to showcase the work (4)

  13  See 23dn (3,5)

  15  Hero of this Handel one not a marmalade cat (7)

  17  Features the Dance of the Seven Veils (6)

  18  That of the Commendatore proved fatal to 3ac (6)

  20  What the Count and Rosina try to do (5)

  22  Garbo who played such a singer in ‘Romance’ (5)

23 and 13dn     Mozart thought all women behaved the same way (4)