| ROSSINI | Gioachino ___, Italian composer (7) |
| SALIERI | Antonio ___, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare (7) |
| VIVALDI | Antonio ___, Italian composer (7) |
| BELLINI | Vincenzo ___, Italian composer of operas Zaira, The Pirate and Norma (7) |
| PORPORA | Nicola ___, Italian composer of the operas Germanico in Germania and Semiramide riconosciuta (7) |
| PUCCINI | Giacomo ___, Italian composer whose works include La Boheme, Tosca and Madame Butterfly (7) |
| SEVILLE | Setting of a play by French polymath Pierre Beaumarchais and subsequent opera by Gioachino Rossini which is the capital of Andalusia (7) |
| DANDINI | Valet of Prince Ramiro in 1817 Gioachino Rossini opera La Cenerentola (7) |
| ILLADRO | L'occasione fa - -; opera by Gioachino Rossini (2,5) |
| ITALIAN | Gioachino Greco or Sonia Gandhi, originally |
| TRAETTA | Tommaso ___, Italian composer of the Neapolitan School who served as music director for Catherine the Great of Russia from 1768 to 1775 |
| ZELMIRA | 1822 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola |
| LEONCAVALLO | Ruggero ___, Italian composer of operas Zaza and Pagliacci (11) |
| BOITO | Arrigo ___, Italian composer of 1868 opera Mefistofele (5) |
| NONO | Luigi ___, Italian composer of 1961 work Intolleranza 1960 (4) |
| BERIO | Luciano ___, Italian composer of the 1960 work Circles (5) |
| PAGANINI | Niccolo _; Italian composer (8) |
| MONTEVERDI | Claudio ___, Italian composer (10) |
| MASCAGNI | Pietro ___, Italian composer whose operas include Cavalleria rusticana |
| RESPIGHI | Ottorino ___, Italian composer (8) |
