| BOCELLI | Andrea, Italian opera singer (7) |
| LUCIANO | Iconic late Italian opera singer, _ Pavarotti (7) |
| BARTOLI | Cecilia ___, five-time Grammy-winning Italian opera singer married to Swiss baritone Oliver Widmer since 2011 (7) |
| CARUSO | Enrico ---, renowned Italian opera singer, leading tenor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for 17 years (6) |
| ANDREA | Italian opera singer who won the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994 (6,7) |
| EZIO | Italian opera singer, ___ Pinza (b.1892 - d.1957) |
| PAVAROTTI | Luciano ___, legendary Italian opera singer (9) |
| GOBBI | Tito ___, Italian opera singer (5) |
| TAJO | Italo ___ (Italian opera singer b.1915 - d.1993) |
| GIGLI | Beniamino ___, Italian opera singer, 1890-1957, who was the most famous tenor of his generation (5) |
| ENRICOCARUSO | Italian opera singer who took part in America’s first public radio broadcast, in 1910 |
| PATTI | Born in Spain to Italian opera singers, a soprano who resided in the Brecon Beacons in a castle she named Craig-y-Nos (Rock of the Night) (5) |
| ROSSINI | Gioachino ---, Italian opera composer (7) |
| PUCCINI | Italian opera composer (7) |
| BELLINI | Italian opera composer (7) |
| VERISMO | Term applied to the realistic school of Italian opera that began with Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana (7) |
| LASCALA | Callas rearranged a place for Italian opera (2,5) |
| LATOSCA | French play that inspired an Italian opera |
| TOSCALE | Italian opera has the French in proper proportion |
| NABUCCO | Italian opera mounted in Havana company? |
