DIVA

Big-headed celebrity, so to speak

• 'Brava!' recipient

• 1982 Beineix thriller

• 1982 movie thriller

• Adelina Patti, for one

• Aretha or Cher, on VH-1

• Aretha or Whitney, e.g.

• Aria performer

• Aria singer

• Aria singer, often

• Baker or Battle, e.g.

• Barbra, for one

• Battle for one

• Battle or Price

• Battle or Sills

• Battle, e.g.

• Bette Midler's ___ Las Vegas

• Beverly Sills, e.g.

• Beverly Sills, for one

• Big-headed celebrity

• Callas or Price

• Callas or Sills

• Callas was one

• Celine Dion, e.g.

• Celine or Mariah or Whitney

• Celine, Mariah or Aretha

• Covent Garden performer

• Covent Garden vocalist, e.g.

• Curtain call maker, maybe

• Demander of special treatment

• Demanding star

• Demanding star, maybe

• Diana Ross, e.g.

• Dion or Streisand, e.g.

• Draw at the Met

• Egoistical, demanding sort

• Esteemed songstress

• Expert in the area of arias

• Fabulous entertainer

• Favored soprano

• Female megastar, in music

• Female megastar, in pop music

• Female opera singer

• Female opera star

• Female operatic star

• Female singer of note

• Female star

• Flagstad or Gluck

• French film of 1982

• Goddess of the opera, literally

• Hard-to-please celeb

• Hard-to-please star

• Hard-to-work-with type

• High-maintenance actress

• High-maintenance opera singer

• High-maintenance performer

• High-maintenance singer

• Hissy-prone missy

• Jessye Norman

• Jessye Norman or Kathleen Battle

• Jessye Norman, e.g.

• Jessye Norman, for one

• Joan Sutherland e.g.

• Kathleen Battle is one

• Kathleen Battle, for one

• Kiri Te Kanawa e.g.

• La Scala headliner

• La Scala star

• Lead singer

• Leading lady

• Literally, goddess

• Madonna or Cher, e.g.

• Maria Callas, e.g.

• Maria Callas, for one

• Mariah Carey or Celine Dion

• Marian Anderson, for one

• Marian Anderson, notably

• Marilyn Horne, e.g.

• Marilyn Horne, for one

• Me, me, me sort

• Melba or Moore

• Met # 1?

• Met attraction

• Met draw

• Met maven

• Met singer

• Met soloist

• Met star

• Met star, perhaps

• Metropolitan thrush

• Midler's ___ Las Vegas

• Millo or Mitchell

• Millo or Sills

• Ms. Scotto for one

• One who hits the high notes

• One who might receive roses at the end of a performance

• One whose area is arias

• One with a comically long rider, probably

• One with her own dressing room, surely

• Opera celeb

• Opera figure

• Opera goddess

• Opera persona

• Opera principal

• Opera singer

• Opera singer with attitude

• Opera star

• Opera superstar

• Opera VIP

• Operatic egomaniac

• Operatic goddess

• Operatic prima donna

• Operatic soloist

• Operatic star

• Operatic VIP

• Palais Garnier star

• Performer at the Met

• Performer with attitude

• Pons or Ponselle

• Pop ___

• Pop star, sometimes

• Popular female singer

• Price or Battle

• Prima donna

• Prominent female performer

• Queen of the opera

• Renee Fleming, for one

• She can carry a tune

• She excels in many arias

• She may be glamorous and successful

• She may try an agent

• She's got the music in her

• Sills for one

• Sills or Mills

• Sills or Mills, e.g.

• Sills or Scotto

• Sills, e.g.

• Singer who definitely has her own dressing room

• Singer with a reputation for being self-centered

• Singer with an ego

• Singer with attitude

• Singing star

• Songstress with attitude

• Soprano superstar

• Star at The Met

• Star of Andromeda, perhaps

• Star of the opera

• Star songstress

• Star soprano

• Star with attitude

• Stuck-up star

• Super soprano

• Sutherland or Horne

• Sutherland or Scotto

• Tantrum thrower, maybe

• Tebaldi or Te Kanawa

• Tebaldi or Te Kanawa e.g.

• Temperamental actress

• Temperamental performer

• Temperamental sort

• Temperamental star

• Temperamental woman

• Tenor's opposite

• The fat lady herself

• Title given to Madonna and Aretha Franklin

• Title given to Maria Callas or Mariah Carey

• Top vocalist

• Tosca is one

• Upscale singer?

• Upscale superstar?

• Vain sort

• Venerated vocalist

• Wilhelmenia Fernandez movie

• Woman who can carry a tune

• A distinguished female operatic singer

• A female operatic star