| 100% | FLOTOW | 6 | Friedrich von —, composer of operas Alessandro Stradella and Martha |
| 44% | SCARLATTI | 9 | Alessandro —, Italian Baroque composer of operas Tigrane and Teodora |
| 43% | DELIBES | 7 | Composer of opera Lakmé and ballet Coppélia |
| 42% | GLASS | 5 | Philip —, composer of operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten |
| 42% | BERG | 4 | Alban —, composer of operas Lulu and Wozzeck |
| 41% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 41% | BIZET | 5 | Georges —, French composer of operas Carmen and Djamileh |
| 41% | WAGNER | 6 | Richard —, German composer of operas Parsifal and Lohengrin |
| 41% | SPONTINI | 8 | Gaspare —, Italian composer of operas Olimpie and La Vestale |
| 41% | GLUCK | 5 | Christoph Willibald —, German composer of operas Tetide and Alceste |
| 41% | KLEMPERER | 9 | Otto —, orchestral conductor; composer of operas Eros and Wehen |
| 41% | PURCELL | 7 | Henry —, 17th-century composer of opera Dido and Aeneas |
| 41% | VERDI | 5 | Composer of the operas "Aida" and "Otello" |
| 41% | WAGNER | 6 | Composer of the opera Tristan and Isolde |
| 40% | ROSSINI | 7 | Gioachino —, composer of operas Otello and The Barber of Seville |
| 40% | BERLIOZ | 7 | Hector —, composer of operas Beatrice et Benedict and Les Troyens |
| 40% | BELLINI | 7 | Vincenzo —, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma |
| 40% | ROREM | 5 | Ned —, US composer of operas Bertha, Our Town and Miss Julie |
| 39% | GLASS | 5 | Philip —, composer of the operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten |
| 39% | JOHNADAMS | 9 | Composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China |
| 38% | SPOHR | 5 | Louis —, German composer of the operas Jessonda and Faust |
| 38% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of the operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 38% | MILHAUD | 7 | Darius —, composer of the operas Christophe Colomb and Bolivar |
| 38% | VERDI | 5 | Opera composer of La Traviata and Aida |
| 38% | GLINKA | 6 | Mikhail —, Russian composer of operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila |
| 38% | BOLCOM | 6 | William —, US composer of operas McTeague, A View from the Bridge and A Wedding |
| 38% | BARTOK | 6 | Bela —, Hungarian composer of opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle and ballet The Wooden Prince |
| 38% | GIUSEPPEVERDI | 13 | Italian composer of the operas "Aida" and "Rigoletto": 2 wds. |
| 38% | BRITTEN | 7 | Benjamin —, composer of the operas Peter Grimes and Billy Budd |