| OTELLO | 4-act Verdi opera first performed in 1887 (6) |
| AIDA | Four-act Verdi work |
| GLINKA | Russian composer of the 1836, 4-act opera A Life for the Tsar (6) |
| CHAOS | 'But I do love thee! and when I love thee not/___ is come again' (Shakespeare, Othello (1602-4) act 3,l.91 (5) |
| ERNANI | Verdi opera first performed in 1844 |
| DONCARLOS | Verdi opera first performed in 1867 (3,6) |
| IVANOV | Four-act drama written by Russian playwright Anton Chekov (6) |
| STREET | Quality ___, four-act comedy by JM Barrie (6) |
| AMASKEDBALL | Verdi opera first produced in Rome in 1859 (1,6,4) |
| NOSE | The ?, Dmitri Shostakovich opera first performed in full in 1930 (4) |
| SIRJOHNINLOVE | Ralph Vaughan Williams opera first performed in 1929 (3,4,2,4) |
| RUSALKA | Three-act Dvorak opera first performed in Prague in 1901 (7) |
| INTERMEZZO | Two-act Richard Strauss opera first performed in Dresden in 1924 (10) |
| THEBARBER | and 27 Gioacchino Rossini opera first performed in 1816 (3,6,2,7) |
| OFSEVILLE | Gioacchino Rossini opera first performed in 1816 (3,6,2,7) |
| GUILLAUME | Gioachino Rossini opera first performed in 1829 (9,4) |
| PETERGRIMES | Benjamin Britten opera first performed in 1945 (5,6) |
| THAIS | 3-act Massenet opera first performed in 1894 (5) |
| LABAYADERE | Ludwig Minkus opera first performed in St Petersburg in 1877 (2,8) |
| LOHENGRIN | 3-act Wagner opera first performed in 1850 (9) |
