| 100% | CATALANI | 8 | Alfredo —, 19th-century composer of operas La Wally and Loreley |
| 49% | SPONTINI | 8 | Gaspare —, Italian composer of operas Olimpie and La Vestale |
| 48% | ERKEL | 5 | Ferenc —, 19th-century composer of operas Batori Maria and Bank Ban |
| 46% | VERDI | 5 | Opera composer of La Traviata and Aida |
| 45% | PURCELL | 7 | Henry —, 17th-century composer of opera Dido and Aeneas |
| 43% | GALUPPI | 7 | Baldassare —, 18th-century composer of the operas La diavolessa and Il mondo della luna |
| 42% | DELIBES | 7 | Composer of opera Lakmé and ballet Coppélia |
| 41% | GLASS | 5 | Philip —, composer of operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten |
| 41% | BERG | 4 | Alban —, composer of operas Lulu and Wozzeck |
| 40% | GIACOMO | 7 | With 38-Across, Italian composer of the operas "Tosca" and "La Bohème" |
| 40% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 40% | BIZET | 5 | Georges —, French composer of operas Carmen and Djamileh |
| 40% | WAGNER | 6 | Richard —, German composer of operas Parsifal and Lohengrin |
| 40% | PUCCINI | 7 | Composer of the opera La Bohème |
| 40% | GLUCK | 5 | Christoph Willibald —, German composer of operas Tetide and Alceste |
| 40% | KLEMPERER | 9 | Otto —, orchestral conductor; composer of operas Eros and Wehen |
| 40% | SCARLATTI | 9 | Alessandro —, Italian Baroque composer of operas Tigrane and Teodora |
| 39% | VERDI | 5 | Composer of the operas "Aida" and "Otello" |
| 39% | SALIERI | 7 | Composer of La Scala's premiere opera |
| 39% | WAGNER | 6 | Composer of the opera Tristan and Isolde |
| 39% | FEUILLET | 8 | Octave —, 19th-century French author of novels Dalila and La Petite Comtesse |
| 39% | ROSSINI | 7 | Gioachino —, composer of operas Otello and The Barber of Seville |
| 39% | BERLIOZ | 7 | Hector —, composer of operas Beatrice et Benedict and Les Troyens |
| 39% | BELLINI | 7 | Vincenzo —, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma |
| 39% | ROREM | 5 | Ned —, US composer of operas Bertha, Our Town and Miss Julie |
| 38% | PUCCINI | 7 | Giacomo —, composer of 1896 opera La boheme |
| 38% | GLASS | 5 | Philip —, composer of the operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten |
| 38% | PONCHIELLI | 10 | Amilcare —, Italian composer of 1876 opera La Gioconda |
| 38% | HALEVY | 6 | Fromental —, French composer of 1835 opera La Juive |