The Clue
Soap or horse chaser (5 letter answer)
The Answer
OPERA
Tags
Notes
The answer OPERA is very common and appears about once every 46 puzzles.
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Works
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Bizet work
Cherubini product
Collected works
Concern of an impresario
"Ernani," e.g.
"Fidelio," e.g.
Field of Battle
"Lakme," e.g.
"Lohengrin," e.g.
"Louise" or "Norma"
"Lulu" or "Louise"
"Martha" or "Norma"
Met offering
Met production
Paer product
"Parsifal," e.g.
"Peter Grimes" is one
Puccini product
Puccini production
Rameau work
"Tosca," e.g.
"William Tell," for one
The works, to Cato
Boito's "Mefistofele," e.g.
Covent Garden offering
"Die Fledermaus," e.g.
"La Bohème," e.g.
"La Gioconda," e.g.
La Scala production
"Les Troyens," e.g.
Lincoln Center attraction
Paris landmark, with "L'"
"Peter Grimes," e.g.
"Simon Boccanegra," e.g.
Where to hear an aria
Works in the music business
Copland's "The Tender Land," e.g.
"Le Coq d'Or," e.g.
Setting for a Marx Bros. film
Teatro La Fenice offering
"Dido and Aeneas," for an early English example
Setting for a 1935 Marx Brothers farce
Definition
OPERA as a noun:
1. a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
2. a commercial browser
3. (opera, opera house) = a building where musical dramas are performed