| SPONTINI | Gaspare -, Italian composer of operas Olimpie and La Vestale |
| AMERICANO | A cocktail of Campari, vermouth and soda water invented by Gaspare Campari (9) |
| GIUSEPPE | and 32dn, Italian composer of operas such as Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida |
| VERDI | see 14dn, Italian composer of operas such as Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida |
| GIUSEPPEVERDI | Italian composer of operas such as Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida (8,5) |
| BUSONI | Ferruccio ___, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino (6) |
| LEONCAVALLO | Ruggero ___, Italian composer of operas Zaza and Pagliacci (11) |
| BELLINI | Vincenzo ___, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma (7) |
| SALIERI | Antonio ?, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare (7) |
| GIORDANO | Umberto -, Italian composer of operas Andrea Chenier and Fedora (8) |
| RESPIGHI | Ottorino -, Italian composer of operas Maria Egiziaca and Semirama (8) |
| SARTI | Giuseppe ?, Italian composer of operas Didone abbandonata and Giulio Sabino |
| ROSSINI | Gioachino ___, Italian composer of operas including The Barber of Seville (1816) (7) |
| RUGGIERO | Italian composer of operas including 1892's I Pagliacci (8,11) |
| BERIO | Luciano ?, Italian composer of opera Un re in ascolto which premiered in 1984 |
| JOHN | and 17dn, Composer of operas The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China |
| BIRTWISTLE | Harrison ___, composer of operas The Minotaur and Punch and Judy (10) |
| SCARLATTI | Alessandro ?, Italian Baroque composer of operas Tigrane and Teodora |
| CATALANI | Alfredo ?, 19th-century composer of operas La Wally and Loreley |
| JOHNADAMS | Composer of operas The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China |
