| MAZEPPA | Tchaikovsky opera based on Pushkin's poem Poltava (7) |
| EUGENONEGIN | 1958 Soviet film version of Tchaikovsky's opera based on Pushkin's novel (5,6) |
| QUEENOF | 'The -', Tchaikovsky opera based on a short story by Pushkin (5,2,6) |
| THEQUEENOFSPADES | Tchaikovsky opera based on a Pushkin story (3,5,2,6) |
| QUEENOFSPADES | "The ...... ...", 1890 Tchaikovsky opera based on a novel by Pushkin (5,2,6) |
| SPADES | 'The -', Tchaikovsky opera based on a short story by Pushkin (5,2,6) |
| KNUSSEN | Oliver -; late composer who wrote an opera based on Maurice Sendak's children's book Where the Wild Things Are (7) |
| PUCCINI | Composer of an opera based on Cio-Cio-San, or Madame Butterfly (7) |
| TROJANS | The ____, English title of a Berlioz opera based on Virgil's The Aeneid (7) |
| ELEKTRA | Strauss opera based on Sophocles |
| THEDEAD | Leos Janacek 1930 opera based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (4,3,5,2,3,4) |
| HOUSEOF | Leos Janacek 1930 opera based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (4,3,5,2,3,4) |
| FROMTHE | Leos Janacek 1930 opera based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (4,3,5,2,3,4) |
| ALEKO | 1892 Sergei Rachmaninoff opera after Alexander Pushkin's poem The Gypsies (5) |
| THEGAMBLER | Prokofiev opera based on a story by Dostoevsky that received its premiere in 1929 (3,7) |
| MANONLESCAUT | Puccini opera based on a 1731 novel by the Abbe Prevost (5,7) |
| OTELLO | Husband leaving play for opera based on it (6) |
| LESTROYENS | Berlioz opera based on the 'Aeneid' |
| HANSEL | 1893 opera based on fairy tale about siblings (6,3,6) |
| ANDGRETEL | 1893 opera based on fairy tale about siblings (6,3,6) |
