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Across 1. “42nd Street” honeymoon railway destination 4. Prokofiev comic opera resolved in triple wedding performed by tippling friar, “Betrothal in a _________” 5. Composed song “Widmung” (“Dedication”) as wedding present for Clara 6. Composer husband of Lotte Lenya 8. Donizetti rueful Don 9. Maxwell Davies Scottish wedding locale, with sunrise (and bagpipes) 11. Novelty song about love affair of the chimpie and the monk, “ABA DABA _________” 12. “The Midsummer Marriage” composer 14. Rossini opera about arrangement with Canadian intended, “The Marriage ________” 19. “For he’s gone and married Yum-Yum…” 20. Strauss bearer of betrothal flower 24. Miss Mousey receives proposal from he who went a-courtin’ 25. Tchaikovsky “Sleeping Beauty” heroine, married in presence of fairy tale guests 27. Saint-Saëns celebratory confection for piano and orchestra 28. Recipient of proposal in song concerning bicycle built for two 29. Jewish wedding dance 30. Czech national opera, “The ________ Bride” 33. “The Bride of Frankenstein” composer 34. Recipient of proposal from Pussy-Cat in Stravinsky song after Edward Lear 35. Author of “I promessi sposi” (“The Betrothed”), dedicatee of Verdi Requiem 36. Shakespeare source for Mendelssohn wedding march 39. Soprano wife of Andre Kostelanetz 41. Locale of Grieg wedding day “Lyric Piece” 43. Cimarosa’s most enduring, most confidential opera, “The ______ Marriage” 44. Composer of “The Bride Wore Black” 46. “Don Giovanni” runaway bride 47. Pachelbel warhorse processional

Down 1. Conductor husband of Joan Sutherland 2. Donizetti bride of Lammermoor 3. Bearded lady rashly married by Stravinsky’s “Rake” 5. Conductor husband of Gloria Vanderbilt 7. “Don Quixote” bridegroom host of lavish wedding feast 10. “Fantastique” composer who wooed and won Shakespearean actress 13. Composer of “Rustic Wedding Symphony” 15. Titular Puccini rogue who provides dowry for Lauretta and Rinuccio 16. “Romeo and Juliet” friar 17. Larky composer of bridal cantata after Spenser’s “Epithalamion” 18. Father of Wolfgang, composer of “Peasant Wedding Symphony” 21. Wagner opera, source of “Here Comes the Bride” 22. Dickens jilted bride, based on historical recluse who also inspired Maxwell Davies 23. Martha Graham ballet about newlyweds in rural Pennsylvania 26. Garcia Lorca sanguinary nuptial tragedy, inspiration for operas and ballets 31. Pianist and conductor husband of Jacqueline du Pré 32. Conductor officiant at Jennifer Higdon wedding 37. Mozart groom who counters Count 38. Popular recessional from Widor Organ Symphony No. 5 40. Dvořák pupil, then son-in-law 42. How many brides for how many brothers? 45. What never to bring to a Wagner wedding