| HECTORBERLIOZ | French composer who wrote the operas Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini |
| BERLIOZ | Hector, composer of the opera Les Troyens (7) |
| OPERAHOUSE | One such as Benvenuto Cellini, put up in Sydney's place? |
| GOLDSMITH | Benvenuto Cellini was one classic author |
| LULLY | Italian-born French composer who wrote the operas Alceste and Armide (5) |
| BOITO | Italian composer who wrote the opera Mefistofele and the libretti to Verdi's Otello and Falstaff and to Ponchielli's La Gioconda (5) |
| BRITTEN | English composer and conductor, 1913-1976, who wrote the opera Peter Grimes and The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (7) |
| SPOHR | Louis ___, German composer, violinist and conductor who wrote the operas Faust, Zemire und Azor and Jessonda |
| BERG | Alban ___, Austrian composer who wrote the operas Wozzeck and Lulu |
| SAINTSAENS | French composer who wrote The Carnival of the Animals suite (5-5) |
| ADAM | French composer who wrote the ballet Giselle and opera Le Toreador (4) |
| DELIBES | Leo _, 19th-century French composer who wrote the Flower Duet (7) |
| STRAUSS | Richard _, German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras who wrote the opera Salome (7) |
| MONTEVERDI | Italian composer who wrote the opera Orfeo and sacred Vespers of 1610 (10) |
| SMETANA | Bedrich, Bohemian composer who wrote the opera The Bartered Bride (7) |
| DEBUSSY | French composer who wrote Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (7) |
| SATIE | Erik ___ , French composer, who wrote five pieces he called 'furniture music', d. 1925 (5) |
| TCHAIKOVSKY | Who wrote the opera The Queen of Spades? (11) |
| ERIKSATIE | French composer who is held to be the precursor of most of the music movements of the 20th century ( |
| ALEXANDRE | ___ Desplat French composer who won the 2018 Oscar for Best Original Score for the film The Shape of Water |