The image of this character from a 19th-century work has become a symbol for opera from the Romantic era

Don Jose is the jilted military man who kills the title character in this opera

The following overture by this composer was first heard in 1790

Giovanni Rubini was a master of this effect similar to tremolo; it was cultivated to excess by his imitators

Operas with subjects drawn from common life like Pagliacci were part of this real life 19th century movement

The character of Beckmesser in this composer's Die Meistersinger is a caricature of music critics

Beppe a harlequin is a character in this 1892 opera

The land on which this London Garden opera house sits was once part of a monastery

The only opera this Finn ever composed was The Maiden in the Tower

Characters in this operetta include captain Richard Warrington & Marietta d'Altena

Of a village a convent or a factory it's where Cavalleria Rusticana is set

Virgil Thomson's 1933 opera Four Saints In Three of these actually has 4 of them

Sung by Rodolfo to Mimi Che Gelida Manina Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen is a beloved aria in this opera

In 1935 black soprano Anne Brown originated this Gershwin role

Debussy wrote an opera about Pelleas & this woman his brother's wife

The opera Monna Vanna (which isn't about Vanna White) takes place in this Leaning Tower city

An arietta is a short simple one of these operatic songs

Figaro is the famous Barber of this Spanish city

This woman of Troy shows up in several operas including Mefistofele

Feuersnot is set in this German city that the Germans call Munchen

Das Rheingold a one-act opera serves as the prologue to this composer's Ring cycle

Traditionally a woman plays this mythological heel in Handel's opera Deidamia

In a Russian opera the city of Kitezh has this magical quality like some ink & an H.G. Wells man

You have to be a baritone to play Cortez in Roger Sessions' opera about this emperor of the Aztecs

1935 American opera whose final scene features the following