| VERDI | Giuseppe, composer of the opera Nabucco (5) |
| ETHEL | Dame ... Smyth, member of the women's suffrage movement and composer of the opera The Wreckers (5) |
| FALLA | Composer of the opera La Vida Breve and the ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (5) |
| RAVEL | Maurice, French composer of the opera The Spanish Hour (5) |
| DIVAS | Leading soprano starting Nabucco in bed (5) |
| BIZET | Composer of the opera Carmen, d. 1875 (5) |
| ALBAN | Mr Berg, composer of the opera Wozzeck (5) |
| GLASS | Philip, US composer of the opera Akhnaten (5) |
| WEBER | Carl Maria von --, German composer of the opera Abu Hassan (5) |
| WEILL | Kurt, composer of the opera Street Scene (5) |
| BOITO | Arrigo, Italian composer of the opera Mefistofele (5) |
| OPERA | "Nabucco," e.g. |
| DINDY | Vincent ___, French composer of the opera Fervaal, which premiered in 1897 (5) |
| IBERT | French composer of the opera Angelique, Jacques ___ (b.1890 - d.1962) |
| SPOHR | Louis ___, German composer of the operas Jessonda and Faust (5) |
| ROREM | Ned ___, US composer of the operas Bertha, Our Town and Miss Julie (5) |
| ADAMS | John ___, composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China (5) |
| MENOTTI | Composer of the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi (4,5,7) |
| GIANCARLO | Composer of the opera Amahl and the Night Visitors, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi (4,5,7) |
| ONPAPER | In writing opera, Pagliacci and Nabucco overtures problematical (2,5) |
