| GUILLAUMETELL | Gioacchino Rossini opera that was first performed in 1829 (9,4) |
| GUILLAUME | & 22D Gioachino Rossini opera first performed in 1829 (9,4) |
| 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) |
| DIDOANDAENEAS | Purcell opera that was first performed in 1689 (4,3,6) |
| RUSALKA | Three-act Dvorak opera that was first performed in Prague in 1901 (7) |
| TRIALBYJURY | One-act Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera that was first performed in 1875 (5,2,4) |
| MESSIAH | Oratorio by Handel that was first performed in Dublin in 1742 (7) |
| SPRING | 1891 stage play by Frank Wedekind that was first performed in 1906 (6,9) |
| MEDEA | Tragedy that was first performed in 431 B.C. |
| TANNHAUSER | Richard Wagner opera that was first produced in Dresden in 1845 (10) |
| FLOTOW | Friedrich von ..., German composer whose opera Martha was first performed in 1847 (6) |
| MEYERBEER | German-born composer whose five-act opera Les Huguenots was first performed in 1836 (9) |
| AMERICANIN | George Gershwin's An ... Paris was first performed in December, 1928; Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron danced in the film (8,2) |
| HAIR | Counter-cultural rock musical which was first performed in 1967 (4) |
| NURSERY | The --- Suite by Edward Elgar was first performed in 1931 (7) |
| BILLYBUDD | Benjamin Britten opera that was produced in London in 1951 (5,4) |
| CROSSROADS | Long-running ITV soap opera that was set in a fictional motel in the Midlands |
| WILLIAMTELL | Rossini's last opera, produced in Paris in 1829 (7,4) |
| OTHELLO | It was first performed at Whitehall Palace in 1604 |
