| VERDI | Giuseppe ___, Italian composer of operas including Rigoletto (1851), and La Traviata (1853) (5) |
| BERIO | Luciano ___, Italian composer of opera Un re in ascolto which premiered in 1984 (5) |
| BOITO | Arrigo ___, Italian composer of 1868 opera Mefistofele (5) |
| ROSSINI | Gioachino ___, Italian composer of operas including The Barber of Seville (1816) (7) |
| CONTE | Giuseppe _, prime minister of Italy 2018-21 (5) |
| RUGGIERO | Italian composer of operas including 1892's I Pagliacci (8,11) |
| LEONCAVALLO | Italian composer of operas including 1892's I Pagliacci |
| GIUSEPPEVERDI | Italian composer born in 1813 whose operas include Aida and La Traviata (8,5) |
| SARTO | Giuseppe ___ a k a Pope Pius X |
| MASSENET | Jules ___, French composer of operas including Manon (1884) |
| HALEVY | Fromental ___, French composer of operas including L'Artisan (1827) |
| TARTINI | Giuseppe ___, Italian violinist and composer of Violin Sonata in G minor, the Devil's Trill Sonata ( |
| PUCCINI | Italian composer whose notable operas including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly (7) |
| AIRING | Broadcasting a set of operas, including Idomeneo at first (6) |
| DONIZETTI | Gaetano ___, Italian composer of the operas Belisario and Don Pasquale (9) |
| SALIERI | Antonio ___, Italian composer of the operas Falstaff and Tarare (7) |
| BUSONI | Ferruccio ___, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino (6) |
| 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) |
| DAPONTE | Lorenzo - -; musician born Emanuele Conegliano who wrote the libretti for three of Mozart's operas including The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (2,5) |
