| 100% | VERDI | 5 | Composer of the operas "Aida" and "Otello" |
| 85% | GIUSEPPEVERDI | 13 | Italian composer of the operas "Aida" and "Rigoletto": 2 wds. |
| 82% | ROSSINI | 7 | Gioachino —, composer of operas Otello and The Barber of Seville |
| 79% | WAGNER | 6 | Composer of the opera Tristan and Isolde |
| 76% | JOHNADAMS | 9 | Composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China |
| 75% | MILHAUD | 7 | Darius —, composer of the operas Christophe Colomb and Bolivar |
| 75% | VERDI | 5 | Composer of the opera "Aida" |
| 75% | BRITTEN | 7 | Benjamin —, composer of the operas Peter Grimes and Billy Budd |
| 74% | BERLIOZ | 7 | Hector —, composer of the operas Beatrice et Benedict and Les Troyens |
| 73% | RICHARDWAGNER | 13 | German composer of the operas "The Flying Dutchman" and "Siegfried": 2 wds. |
| 73% | ROREM | 5 | Ned —, US composer of the operas Bertha, Our Town and Miss Julie |
| 73% | ADAMS | 5 | John —, composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China |
| 73% | PORPORA | 7 | Nicola —, Italian composer of the operas Germanico in Germania and Semiramide riconosciuta |
| 72% | GALUPPI | 7 | Baldassare —, 18th-century composer of the operas La diavolessa and Il mondo della luna |
| 71% | GLASS | 5 | Philip —, composer of the operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten |
| 71% | GLINKA | 6 | Mikhail —, Russian composer of the operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila |
| 70% | GIACOMO | 7 | With 38-Across, Italian composer of the operas "Tosca" and "La Bohème" |
| 69% | SPOHR | 5 | Louis —, German composer of the operas Jessonda and Faust |
| 69% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of the operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 68% | VERDI | 5 | Opera composer of La Traviata and Aida |
| 68% | BIRTWISTLE | 10 | Harrison —, composer of operas The Minotaur and Punch and Judy |
| 68% | BELLINI | 7 | Vincenzo —, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma |
| 68% | DONIZETTI | 9 | Gaetano —, Italian composer of the operas Belisario and Don Pasquale |
| 66% | ROSSINI | 7 | Composer of the opera "Tancredi" |
| 66% | WEBER | 5 | Composer of the opera "Euryanthe" |
| 66% | DVORAK | 6 | Composer of the opera "Rusalka" |
| 66% | LALO | 4 | Composer of the opera "Fiesque" |
| 66% | ARNE | 4 | Composer of the opera "Alfred" |
| 66% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | Composer of the opera Fidelio |