| 100% | BELLINI | 7 | Italian composer of operas |
| 89% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 88% | SPONTINI | 8 | Gaspare —, Italian composer of operas Olimpie and La Vestale |
| 88% | RESPIGHI | 8 | Ottorino —, Italian composer of operas Maria Egiziaca and Semirama |
| 88% | GIORDANO | 8 | Umberto —, Italian composer of operas Andrea Chenier and Fedora |
| 88% | BUSONI | 6 | Ferruccio —, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino |
| 87% | BELLINI | 7 | Vincenzo —, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma |
| 87% | SARTI | 5 | Giuseppe —, Italian composer of operas Didone abbandonata and Giulio Sabino |
| 85% | BOITO | 5 | Arrigo —, Italian composer of 1868 opera Mefistofele |
| 84% | GIUSEPPEVERDI | 13 | Italian composer of the operas "Aida" and "Rigoletto": 2 wds. |
| 84% | PONCHIELLI | 10 | Amilcare —, Italian composer of 1876 opera La Gioconda |
| 83% | BERIO | 5 | Luciano —, Italian composer of opera Un re in ascolto which premiered in 1984 |
| 83% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of the operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 83% | CIMAROSA | 8 | Domenico —, Italian composer of 1792 opera The Secret Marriage |
| 82% | DONIZETTI | 9 | Gaetano —, Italian composer of the operas Belisario and Don Pasquale |
| 82% | PERGOLESI | 9 | Giovanni Battista —, Italian composer of 1733 opera The Proud Prisoner |
| 80% | GIACOMO | 7 | With 38-Across, Italian composer of the operas "Tosca" and "La Bohème" |
| 80% | PORPORA | 7 | Nicola —, Italian composer of the operas Germanico in Germania and Semiramide riconosciuta |
| 77% | PALESTRINA | 10 | 16th-century Italian composer, subject of a 1917 German opera |
| 72% | ROSSINI | 7 | Italian opera composer of the Barber of Seville |
| 72% | WAGNER | 6 | German composer of operas |
| 69% | SCARLATTI | 9 | Alessandro —, Italian Baroque composer of operas Tigrane and Teodora |
| 68% | PUCCINI | 7 | Italian composer of Madama Butterfly |
| 67% | VIVALDI | 7 | Italian composer of The Four Seasons |
| 66% | DELIBES | 7 | Composer of opera Lakmé and ballet Coppélia |
| 66% | PAISIELLO | 9 | Giovanni —, Italian composer whose operas include The Barber of Seville and Proserpine |
| 64% | GLASS | 5 | Philip —, composer of operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten |
| 64% | BERG | 4 | Alban —, composer of operas Lulu and Wozzeck |
| 64% | GLANVILLE | 9 | Peggy __-Hicks, Aussie composer of opera Sappho |
| 64% | VERDI | 5 | Composer of the opera "Aida" |