| 100% | GIUSEPPEVERDI | 13 | Italian composer of the operas "Aida" and "Rigoletto": 2 wds. |
| 69% | RICHARDWAGNER | 13 | German composer of the operas "The Flying Dutchman" and "Siegfried": 2 wds. |
| 62% | PORPORA | 7 | Nicola —, Italian composer of the operas Germanico in Germania and Semiramide riconosciuta |
| 61% | VERDI | 5 | Composer of the operas "Aida" and "Otello" |
| 61% | GEORGESBIZET | 12 | French composer of the opera "Carmen": 2 wds. |
| 60% | GIACOMO | 7 | With 38-Across, Italian composer of the operas "Tosca" and "La Bohème" |
| 60% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of the operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 60% | DONIZETTI | 9 | Gaetano —, Italian composer of the operas Belisario and Don Pasquale |
| 58% | BELLINI | 7 | Vincenzo —, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma |
| 55% | GEORGEGERSHWIN | 14 | Composer of the music for "Porgy and Bess" (his brother Ira wrote some of the lyrics): 2 wds. |
| 55% | PAISIELLO | 9 | Giovanni —, Italian composer whose operas include The Barber of Seville and Proserpine |
| 54% | WAGNER | 6 | Composer of the opera Tristan and Isolde |
| 52% | JOHNADAMS | 9 | Composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China |
| 52% | LEONARDODA | 10 | Italian polymath of the Renaissance who is the renowned painter of "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper," ___ Vinci: 2 wds. |
| 52% | MILHAUD | 7 | Darius —, composer of the operas Christophe Colomb and Bolivar |
| 52% | VERDI | 5 | Composer of the opera "Aida" |
| 51% | BRITTEN | 7 | Benjamin —, composer of the operas Peter Grimes and Billy Budd |
| 51% | BERLIOZ | 7 | Hector —, composer of the operas Beatrice et Benedict and Les Troyens |
| 50% | ROREM | 5 | Ned —, US composer of the operas Bertha, Our Town and Miss Julie |
| 50% | ADAMS | 5 | John —, composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China |
| 50% | SALIERI | 7 | Antonio —, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare |
| 50% | SPONTINI | 8 | Gaspare —, Italian composer of operas Olimpie and La Vestale |
| 50% | RESPIGHI | 8 | Ottorino —, Italian composer of operas Maria Egiziaca and Semirama |
| 50% | GIORDANO | 8 | Umberto —, Italian composer of operas Andrea Chenier and Fedora |
| 50% | BUSONI | 6 | Ferruccio —, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino |
| 49% | MAURICERAVEL | 12 | French composer of the orchestral work "Boléro": 2 wds. |
| 49% | GALUPPI | 7 | Baldassare —, 18th-century composer of the operas La diavolessa and Il mondo della luna |
| 49% | SARTI | 5 | Giuseppe —, Italian composer of operas Didone abbandonata and Giulio Sabino |
| 49% | GLASS | 5 | Philip —, composer of the operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten |
| 49% | GLINKA | 6 | Mikhail —, Russian composer of the operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila |