| OTELLO | 1887 Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play (6) |
| ERNANI | 1844 Verdi opera based on a Victor Hugo play |
| ATTILA | Verdi opera based on a historic invader |
| HENRYV | 1989 Emma Thompson movie based on a Shakespeare play: 2 wds. |
| STREET | 1946 Kurt Weill opera based on a play by Elmer Rice (6,5) |
| SPADES | 'The -', Tchaikovsky opera based on a short story by Pushkin (5,2,6) |
| CARMEN | 1875 Georges Bizet opera based on a novella of the same name by French writer Prosper Merimee (6) |
| SALOME | Strauss opera based on a Wilde play |
| TITUS | 1999 Anthony Hopkins film based on a Shakespeare play |
| OPHELIA | 2018 drama based on a Shakespeare play, starring Daisy Ridley (7) |
| ISOLDE | Wagner's opera based on a medieval love story, Tristan And ... |
| RIENZI | Wagner opera based on a 14th-century Italian patriot |
| LUISAMILLER | Verdi opera based on the play Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich von Schiller (5,6) |
| HANSEL | 1893 opera based on fairy tale about siblings (6,3,6) |
| TRAVIATA | Verdi opera based on the play by Alexandre Dumas (2,8) |
| LA | Verdi opera based on the play by Alexandre Dumas (2,8) |
| AMASKEDBALL | Verdi opera based on the assassination of Gustav III of Sweden (1,6,4) |
| UNBALLOINMASCHERA | Verdi opera based on the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden |
| LATRAVIATA | Verdi opera based on the novel La Dame aux Camelias (2,8) |
| WARAND | Prokofiev opera based on the Tolstoy novel, ... Peace (3,3) |
