| PAPPANO | Antonio, conductor who is musical director of the Royal Opera House (7) |
| ANNIE | Girl who is musical (5) |
| COVENTGARDEN | A district of Westminster, location of the Royal Opera House (6,6) |
| COVENT | ___ Garden, site in London of the Royal Opera House (6) |
| RATTLE | Sir Simon, Liverpudlian conductor who is the music director of the London Symphony Orchestra (6) |
| DAVEARCH | Pianist and conductor who is Strictly Come Dancing's musical director (4,4) |
| WESTEND | Home to the Royal Opera House |
| HAITINK | Violinist who was the principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra 1967-79 and musical director of Glyndebourne 1978-88 (7) |
| SLATKIN | Leonard, musical director of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra (1979-96) |
| LEOPOLD | Baton-free conductor who was the musical director of Walt Disney's Fantasia, ... Stokowski |
| LAMBERT | Founder Music Director of the Royal Ballet who was a reciter in the Sitwell-Walton Facade collaboration (7) |
| GOBBI | and 4ac, Italian baritone who produced and played the title role in Giuseppe Verdi opera Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1965 (4,5) |
| TITO | and 4ac, Italian baritone who produced and played the title role in Giuseppe Verdi opera Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1965 (4,5) |
| LEHMKUHL | Wiebke, German contralto who sang Voice of Erda in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera House in 2023 (8) |
| SOLTI | Conductor awarded 32 Grammys during his career at the Royal Opera House, Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| ALLEGRO | Term that is musical or legal, perhaps (7) |
| TUNEFUL | One French flute playing outside is musical (7) |
| GALA | Swimming event/meet for clubs to compete; or, a special evening hosted at the Royal Opera House for a Royal Ballet production, for example (4) |
| ROBERTLLOYD | Principal bass appointed by Sadler's Wells Opera Company in 1969 and the Royal Opera House in 1972 |
| SCHERZO | Fischer-zorba piece is musical. (7) |
