| 100% | PONCHIELLI | 10 | Amilcare —, Italian composer of 1876 opera La Gioconda |
| 56% | SPONTINI | 8 | Gaspare —, Italian composer of operas Olimpie and La Vestale |
| 49% | BELLINI | 7 | Italian composer of operas |
| 48% | PUCCINI | 7 | Composer of the opera La Bohème |
| 46% | GIUSEPPEVERDI | 13 | Italian composer of the operas "Aida" and "Rigoletto": 2 wds. |
| 46% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 45% | RESPIGHI | 8 | Ottorino —, Italian composer of operas Maria Egiziaca and Semirama |
| 45% | GIORDANO | 8 | Umberto —, Italian composer of operas Andrea Chenier and Fedora |
| 45% | BUSONI | 6 | Ferruccio —, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino |
| 45% | SALIERI | 7 | Composer of La Scala's premiere opera |
| 44% | BELLINI | 7 | Vincenzo —, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma |
| 44% | SARTI | 5 | Giuseppe —, Italian composer of operas Didone abbandonata and Giulio Sabino |
| 43% | BERIO | 5 | Luciano —, Italian composer of opera Un re in ascolto which premiered in 1984 |
| 43% | GIACOMO | 7 | With 38-Across, Italian composer of the operas "Tosca" and "La Bohème" |
| 42% | PUCCINI | 7 | Giacomo —, composer of 1896 opera La boheme |
| 42% | VERDI | 5 | Opera composer of La Traviata and Aida |
| 42% | BOITO | 5 | Arrigo —, Italian composer of 1868 opera Mefistofele |
| 42% | PALESTRINA | 10 | 16th-century Italian composer, subject of a 1917 German opera |
| 42% | CATALANI | 8 | Alfredo —, 19th-century composer of operas La Wally and Loreley |
| 42% | PUCCINI | 7 | Composer of the opera "La Boheme" |
| 41% | GIOCONDA | 8 | La —, opera by Amilcare Ponchielli first performed in 1876 |
| 41% | CIMAROSA | 8 | Domenico —, Italian composer of 1792 opera The Secret Marriage |
| 41% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of the operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 41% | PAISIELLO | 9 | Giovanni —, Italian composer whose operas include The Barber of Seville and Proserpine |
| 41% | DONIZETTI | 9 | Gaetano —, Italian composer of the operas Belisario and Don Pasquale |
| 41% | ROSSINI | 7 | Italian opera composer of the Barber of Seville |
| 41% | HALEVY | 6 | Fromental —, French composer of 1835 opera La Juive |
| 39% | PORPORA | 7 | Nicola —, Italian composer of the operas Germanico in Germania and Semiramide riconosciuta |
| 39% | PERGOLESI | 9 | Giovanni Battista —, Italian composer of 1733 opera The Proud Prisoner |