Historical clue formulations

• "Norma" or "Tosca" — 2026-09-01
• Work with a libretto — 2026-07-15
• Performance at Lincoln Center — 2026-06-22
• One of 22 works by Mozart, but just one work by Beethoven — 2026-04-02
• "Don Giovanni" genre — 2026-03-11
• "L'Orfeo" or "Idomeneo" — 2026-02-17
• Work of Bellini or Bizet — 2025-12-11
• "___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley — 2025-12-08
• "People are wrong when they say ___ is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it": Noël Coward — 2025-09-06
• Work of Puccini or Bellini — 2025-07-22
• Glass production — 2025-07-05
• ___ cake, dessert with layers of sponge, buttercream and ganache — 2025-06-13
• "La Bohème," for one — 2025-04-21
• Word after soap or before box — 2025-04-08
• Setting for 6-Across — 2025-03-23
• "La Forza del Destino," for one — 2024-12-05
• Setting of a date for Edward and Vivian in "Pretty Woman" — 2024-07-19
• Puccini's "La Rondine" or "Turandot" — 2024-07-08
• Performance often accompanied by supertitles — 2024-06-16
• "The Marriage of Figaro," e.g. — 2024-05-08
• Word in the title of Broadway's longest-running show — 2024-04-16
• Field for a voice major, perhaps — 2024-04-09
• Of all the noises known to man, it is the most expensive, per an old quip — 2024-03-01
• Word with space or rock — 2023-12-31
• Love of Charles Foster Kane in "Citizen Kane" — 2023-11-09
• Where there is "too much singing," per Debussy — 2023-10-05
• Entertainment one might view from a box — 2023-09-21
• "The Magic Flute," e.g. — 2023-07-24
• "La Bohème" or "La Traviata" — 2023-01-02
• Field for Maria Callas — 2022-12-21
• "Il Trovatore," for one — 2022-12-09
• "Aida" or "Lohengrin" — 2022-12-05
• Met for a few hours in the evening? — 2022-11-05
• John Adams's "Nixon in China," for one — 2022-10-18
• Word with rock or soap — 2022-10-05
• Work from Bellini or Rossini — 2022-06-22
• Word with light or space — 2022-06-17
• Kind of cake with layers of coffee and chocolate — 2022-05-27
• Best ___ Recording (Grammy category) — 2022-05-22
• Word with box or gloves — 2022-04-10
• "Fidelio" is Beethoven's only one — 2022-01-25
• "Tosca" or "Turandot" — 2021-11-22
• They say this "ain't over until the fat lady sings" — 2021-11-15
• "Carmen" or "Elektra" — 2021-11-08
• Unsuk Chin's "Alice in Wonderland," for one — 2021-10-27
• Literally, "works" — 2021-09-19
• "What's ___, Doc?" (old Bugs Bunny short) — 2021-08-29
• "The Phantom of the ___" — 2021-08-09
• Grammy category — 2021-08-05
• "La Bohème," for one — 2021-05-04