| SEAPORT | Performing opera in street haven (7) |
| KIRIBATI | A country singer performing opera's a bit strange (8) |
| ARCHERS | The a"; created by Godfrey Baseley in 1950, a rural drama that has become the longest-running radio soap opera in history (7) |
| SEVILLE | Comic opera in two acts by Rossini, first performed in 1816 (3,6,2,7) |
| FIDELIO | Active field, identifying opera's overtures - this opera in particular? (7) |
| RITUALS | Opera in five parts by American avant-garde composer John Zorn premiered at the Bayreuth Opera Festival in 1988 |
| HERRING | Hero of opera in girl's series of operas (7) |
| BAVARIA | Bishop and bible song from opera in former kingdom (7) |
| ALCYONE | Marin Marais opera in a version of Ceylon? (7) |
| LEOPARD | It's spotted composing opera in outer Lapland (7) |
| ROSSINI | Composer of opera in which French king admits terrible sins (7) |
| DYNASTY | 1980s American soap opera in which Joan Collins played Alexis Carrington Colby (7) |
| OPENAIR | New opera in natural setting (4,3) |
| INTONER | I recite principal pieces from Threepenny Opera in private |
| ARCADIA | Part of circle backing opera in a pastoral paradise |
| HEADSET | One covers the ears as commercials interrupt the opera in the middle, horribly |
| ZELMIRA | 1822 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola |
| LOTT | Felicity ___, soprano born in Cheltenham in 1947 who debuted at the English National Opera in 1975 ( |
| AIDA | Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in Cairo in 1871 (4) |
| ALBERTHERRING | A chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1947 (6,7) |
