5. ____-Gallas Palace in Prague

9. Turandot requires 13 tuned ones in the pit

14. Come _____ (common greeting at La Scala)

15. Ethiopian Princess

16. What is read on an iPad, e.g.

17. Where Don José studied to become an officer , perhaps?

18. Took the train from Vienna to Paris: abbr.

19. Druid Priestess

20. What Calàf's heart does?

23. Suffix with ''social''

24. Many microwaves and ovens

25. With bleu, a way to cook chicken

28. Fat patron of the Garter Inn

33. What 28 across likes to drink

34. Everyone, in Bayreuth

35. Heroine of Debussy's L'enfant prodigue

36. 15-year-old bride

40. Big bird

41. One time music director of La Scala

42. Picturesque printed fabric

43. The poor seamstress and her artistic friends

46. Adding students of the opposite sex

47. An Offenbach dance, when repeated

48. Tiny island nation in the South Pacific

49. Advice from the vocal coach before taking the stage!

55. Cords needed for singing

57. Opera America is one, abbr.

58. Mainstay cookie backstage?

59. Nabucco chorus member

60. Pre-opera learning opportunity: abbr.

61. Wagner's four

62. Farther out there

63. Elizabethan and Victorian

64. Simple goodbye after the show

1. With elites, subject of Schoenberg's opera

2. A basic example of 44 down, e.g.

3. Iago swears one of faithfulness to Otello

4. Susanna dressing like the Countess to fool Almaviva, e.g.

5. Gypsy woman

6. Turkish money

7. Capital of Yemen

8. Org. to keep people sober behind the wheel

9. Opera seria, opera buffa, and singspiel are a few

10. The pitcher of the pit?

11. One of the daughters of Erda in Götterdämmerung

12. Korean media player for Windows

13. Jamaican style of opera?

21. What caused The Dutchman to dock in Norway

22. The plastic thing at the end of a shoelace.

25. Stage animal in Aida

26. 44

27. When the singer has to record a bit again for the CD

28. Tamino was given a magic one

29. Members of the chorus

30. Lola's husband who lost part of an ear.

31. Donizetti's Mount Everest for tenors

32. Princess Diana's last boyfriend

34. Porgy might be disabled, but he's not _____!

37. Add or edit a bit to make better

38. What you take when browsing itineraries from your iPad.

39. A shoe or a city in MA

44. It takes 8 to make 1

45. A large truck, e.g.

46. Sounds of exertion

48. Singer who jumped to a bad conclusion?

49. A huge amount

50. Connecticut school

51. French-Belgian river

52. Caro Nome is a famous one

53. Musical based on 43 across

54. Costume for a classic version of Agrippina perhaps?

55. Letters on a cognac bottle

56. Like Vanessa's mother, the Baroness