| 100% | PALESTRINA | 10 | 16th-century Italian composer, subject of a 1917 German opera |
| 45% | MATAHARI | 8 | Subject of a 1917 execution |
| 43% | NERO | 4 | Subject of a Boito opera |
| 42% | MACBETH | 7 | Subject of a centuries-old theatrical superstition |
| 41% | NERO | 4 | Historical subject of a Boito opera |
| 41% | ATTILA | 6 | Historical subject of a Verdi opera |
| 41% | BELLINI | 7 | Italian composer of operas |
| 41% | TASSO | 5 | Italian poet who was the subject of a Goethe play and a Donizetti opera |
| 39% | ODER | 4 | River subject of a 1990 German/Polish treaty |
| 39% | DIVASKAPITAL | 12 | Savings of a German opera star? |
| 39% | WAGNER | 6 | German composer of operas |
| 38% | BOITO | 5 | Arrigo —, Italian composer of 1868 opera Mefistofele |
| 38% | GIUSEPPEVERDI | 13 | Italian composer of the operas "Aida" and "Rigoletto": 2 wds. |
| 38% | PONCHIELLI | 10 | Amilcare —, Italian composer of 1876 opera La Gioconda |
| 38% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 38% | OTHMAYR | 7 | Caspar —, 16th-century German composer and theologian whose works include There is a Snow Fallen |
| 38% | IRISHPOTATO | 11 | Subject of a 19th-century famine |
| 37% | CIMAROSA | 8 | Domenico —, Italian composer of 1792 opera The Secret Marriage |
| 37% | SPONTINI | 8 | Gaspare —, Italian composer of operas Olimpie and La Vestale |
| 37% | RESPIGHI | 8 | Ottorino —, Italian composer of operas Maria Egiziaca and Semirama |
| 37% | GIORDANO | 8 | Umberto —, Italian composer of operas Andrea Chenier and Fedora |
| 37% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of the operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 37% | BUSONI | 6 | Ferruccio —, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino |
| 37% | PERGOLESI | 9 | Giovanni Battista —, Italian composer of 1733 opera The Proud Prisoner |
| 37% | BELLINI | 7 | Vincenzo —, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma |
| 37% | SARTI | 5 | Giuseppe —, Italian composer of operas Didone abbandonata and Giulio Sabino |
| 37% | DONIZETTI | 9 | Gaetano —, Italian composer of the operas Belisario and Don Pasquale |
| 37% | ROSSINI | 7 | Italian opera composer of the Barber of Seville |
| 36% | TELEMANN | 8 | Georg —, German composer of 1725 opera Pimpinone |
| 36% | GIACOMO | 7 | With 38-Across, Italian composer of the operas "Tosca" and "La Bohème" |