| ARTUROTOSCANINI | He conducted the premiere performances of "Pagliacci" and "La |
| GALLICURCI | Who sang Bettina in the premiere performance of Bizet's Don Procopio (1906) |
| GOODALL | Sir Reginald, born in 3 down, who conducted the premiere of Britten's Peter Grimes in 1945 (7) |
| NEDDA | Soprano character of Pagliacci |
| THETEARSOFACLOWN | Smokey Robinson & the Miracles single, influenced by the opera Pagliacci, and one of the few hit singles in which a bassoon is heard |
| MRSANDMAN | Classic song with the line "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of wavy hair like Liberace" |
| ONPAPER | In writing opera, Pagliacci and Nabucco overtures problematical (2,5) |
| OPENS | Has its premiere performance |
| DEBUT | Premiere performance |
| ELLINGTON | In 1943 he conducted the first of what would become nine annual concerts at Carnegie Hall; jazz grea |
| BEAUNASH | Celebrated dandy, Master of Ceremonies at Bath where he conducted the public balls (4,4) |
| GAMUT | Dorothy Parker commented waspishly in the interval of the premiere of The Lake, "Katharine Hepburn runs the ... of emotions from A to B" |
| GENNADYROZHDESTVENSKY | Russian conductor who conducted the first performances in the west of Shostakovich's 4th and 12th symphonies at the 1962 Edinburgh Festival (7,14) |
| NEATE | Which Australian tenor and opera singer served during the Second World War with the Royal Canadian Air Force and sang in the premiere of Henri Tomasi's Samplero Corso (1956) |
| ABBEY | Sir Edward Elgar conducted the LSO at the opening of the famous recording studio on this road - but it took the Beatles to make it really famous |
| FIFTHAVENUEQ | Show after the show after the show after the show after the premiere of a 2003 musical? |
| ARTURO | He conducted Enrico at La Scala |
| GEORGSOLTI | He conducted experiments with goo and gristle |
| TOSCANINI | He conducted an opera popular in the Province |
| OTOOLE | Actor with the #1 film performance in Premiere magazine's list of "100 Greatest Performances of All Time" |