| NORMATIVE | Opera and musical in back-to-back clash, setting a standard |
| SEDANCHAIR | Wild dances and musical in which you may get carried away? |
| BLOODSTOCK | Horses in back-to-back races (10) |
| HOOCH | Conservative in back-to-back houses banned alcohol |
| CABOT | Vermont creamery hidden backward in "back-to-back" |
| ANNA | Former TN Chief Minister in back-to-back articles |
| CANARY | Yellow finch known collectively as an aria or an opera and formerly employed as a colliery gas detector; a Madeira-like wine; or, an informal word for a jailbird or a soprano (6) |
| ARIOSO | In opera and oratorio, a composition for solo voice combining elements of a recitative and aria; from Italian, 'airy' (6) |
| KIROV | Russian musical company, main rival to the Bolshoi in opera and ballet (5) |
| OTTO | ___ Klemperer, American conductor born in Germany in 1885, internationally noted in opera and concerts (4) |
| MALARIA | Music and lyrics opens opera and, bitten by the bug, I'm in a feverish state (7) |
| NATATORIA | Revolutionary solarium's offering to put in some opera and swimming facilities |
| LOSEPATIENCE | Mislay a Gilbert and Sullivan opera and get annoyed (4,8) |
| MUSICALCHORES | Polishing the chandelier in "The Phantom of the Opera" and laundering uniforms in "Hamilton"? |
| MARXBROTHERS | Stars of A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races (4,8) |
| TAUBER | Tenor who fled Nazi Germany and settled in Britain, he sang opera and such popular classics as Ah, S |
| HOFFMANN | E T A ___, German Romantic author whose stories form the basis of an Offenbach opera and ballets by Tchaikovsky and Delibes |
| RINGCYCLE | Quartet of Wagnerian operas, and a hint to the progression in this puzzle's circled letters |
| PEJORATIVE | Making derogatory comment: "Minimum of tension in conflation of opera and jive" |
| RINGLEADER | Main villain in opera and songs from Germany on the radio? (10) |
