| ROSSINI | Gioachino ___, Italian composer of operas including The Barber of Seville (1816) (7) |
| DAPONTE | Lorenzo - -; musician born Emanuele Conegliano who wrote the libretti for three of Mozart's operas including The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (2,5) |
| BELLINI | Vincenzo ___, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma (7) |
| SALIERI | Antonio ___, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare (7) |
| PORPORA | Nicola ___, Italian composer of the operas Germanico in Germania and Semiramide riconosciuta (7) |
| PUCCINI | Stealing church organ parts to buy cigarettes in his youth, a composer of 12 operas, including Madama Butterfly and Tosca, who became the richest musician of his era (7) |
| TRAETTA | Tommaso ___, Italian composer of the Neapolitan School who served as music director for Catherine the Great of Russia from 1768 to 1775 |
| VERDI | Giuseppe ___, Italian composer of operas including Rigoletto (1851), and La Traviata (1853) (5) |
| GILBERT | W. S. -; librettist who collaborated with Arthur Sullivan on comic operas including HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance (7) |
| RUGGIERO | Italian composer of operas including 1892's I Pagliacci (8,11) |
| LEONCAVALLO | Italian composer of operas including 1892's I Pagliacci |
| SEVILLE | Setting of a play by French polymath Pierre Beaumarchais and subsequent opera by Gioachino Rossini which is the capital of Andalusia (7) |
| DANDINI | Valet of Prince Ramiro in 1817 Gioachino Rossini opera La Cenerentola (7) |
| HALEVY | Fromental ___, French composer of operas including L'Artisan (1827) |
| ILLADRO | L'occasione fa - -; opera by Gioachino Rossini (2,5) |
| ZELMIRA | 1822 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola |
| MASSENET | Jules ___, French composer of operas including Manon (1884) |
| ITALIAN | Gioachino Greco or Sonia Gandhi, originally |
| BUSONI | Ferruccio ___, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino (6) |
| AIRING | Broadcasting a set of operas, including Idomeneo at first (6) |
