Complete Clue List
Across
1. Opera about a knight, the Holy Grail and Holy Spear (8)
5. Large genus of shrubs, wattles (6)
10. Francesco ___, 17thC Italian, 'La Calisto' (7)
11. Herod (not Antipas, who featured in 'Salome') (7)
12. Austrian Bullpup assault rifle made by Steyr, inits (3)
13. Disregarded intentionally (7)
14. Verdi opera based on Old Testament stories (7)
15. Montenegrin opera singer, __ Canovic (5)
18. Heroic-romantic opera by Von Weber, premiered Vienna, 1823 (9)
22. Grand opera by Meyerbeer, "L' ___" (9)
27. Composer of 'Aida', 'La Traviata', Giuseppe (5)
30. Virtuoso solo passage inserted near the end of an aria (7)
31. In a group, all together (2,5)
32. Period of economic stress, 2007-9, inits. (3)
33. In 'Carmen', Don Jose's occupation (7)
34. Radio format with diverse playlist, can be AAA (6,1)
35. Ran away together as lovers (6)
36. Opera by Robert Ward, '___ and Heloise' (7)
Down
1. Composer of 'La Boheme' (7)
2. Ancient Italian city, home to a prestigious music festival (7)
3. Musical by Peter Mills, based on 'Twelfth Night' (7)
4. Opera by Richard Strauss, ' ___ auf Naxos' (7)
6. Uppermost part of the brain, plural (7)
7. Someone who imitates another (7)
8. French author France, his novel was used as the basis for the opera 'Thais' (7)
9. Composer of 1 Across (6)
16. Radio waves between 30 - 300 MHz, inits (3)
17. Atoll, a district of Tuvalu (3)
19. Tall rounded vase (3)
20. Birth name (3)
21. Builder's tool, used for carrying bricks (3)
22. Lully, Handel and Gluck all wrote an opera of this name (7)
23. Leading male in the cast of 'La Boheme' (7)
24. Operetta by Bernstein, based on Voltaire's novella (7)
25. The Taj Mahal is located __ , a city in northern India (2,4)
26. Theodorakis opera, Ancient Greek story,(7)
27. Title character of a Marschner Romantic opera, 1828 (7)
28. Opera by Dvorak, with aria 'Song to the Moon' (7)
29. Eithne, an opera written in the national language of ___ (7)