| 100% | INTERMEZZO | 10 | Two-act opera by Richard Strauss first performed in Dresden in 1924 |
| 47% | GENOVEVA | 8 | Opera by Robert Schumann first performed in 1850 |
| 47% | GOYESCAS | 8 | Opera by Enrique Granados first performed in 1916 |
| 46% | NOSE | 4 | The —, opera by Dmitri Shostakovich first performed in full in 1930 |
| 45% | TURANDOT | 8 | Unfinished opera by Giacomo Puccini first performed in 1926 |
| 45% | GIOCONDA | 8 | La —, opera by Amilcare Ponchielli first performed in 1876 |
| 43% | PLAY | 4 | Stage play in one act by Samuel Beckett first performed in English in 1964 |
| 40% | MANON | 5 | Five-act opera by Jules Massenet first produced in 1884 |
| 38% | THEROSEOF | 9 | & 21A Opera by Arthur Sullivan and Basil Hood first performed in 1899 |
| 37% | ELEKTRA | 7 | 1909 opera by Richard Strauss |
| 36% | CREATION | 8 | The —, oratorio by Joseph Haydn first performed in Vienna in 1798 |
| 36% | HOWL | 4 | Poem by Allen Ginsberg first performed in 1955 |
| 35% | ELNINO | 6 | Nativity oratorio by John Adams first performed in 2000 |
| 35% | ONDINE | 6 | Stage play by Jean Giraudoux first performed in 1939 |
| 35% | BAAL | 4 | Stage play by Bertolt Brecht first performed in 1923 |
| 35% | NOSE | 4 | The —, Dmitri Shostakovich opera first performed in full in 1930 |
| 35% | LARK | 4 | The —, stage play by Jean Anouilh first performed in 1953 |
| 35% | RAPSODIE | 8 | & 11D Orchestral work by Maurice Ravel first performed in 1908 |
| 34% | LITTLEEYOLF | 11 | 1894 play by Henrik Ibsen first performed in the following year |
| 34% | FINLANDIA | 9 | Symphonic poem for orchestra by Jean Sibelius first performed in 1900 |
| 34% | BLIND | 5 | & 14D Masque by Peter Maxwell Davies first performed in London in 1972 |
| 34% | QUAD | 4 | Play without words by Samuel Beckett first performed on television in 1981 |
| 34% | GUILLAUME | 9 | & 22D Gioachino Rossini opera first performed in 1829 |
| 33% | TRIALBYJURY | 11 | Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera first performed in 1875 |
| 33% | TRIPLEAXEL | 10 | Skating feat first performed in competition by Vern Taylor |