| PUCCINI | Italian operatic composer, d. 1924 (7) |
| ROSSINI | Italian operatic composer, d. 1868 (7) |
| WAGNER | German operatic composer, d. 1883 (6) |
| SCARLATTI | Italian operatic composer (9) |
| DONIZETTI | Italian operatic composer |
| VERDI | Italian operatic composer (5) |
| GAETANODONIZETTI | Italian operatic composer whose works include Lucia di Lammermoor and La Fille du regiment |
| BOCELLI | Italian operatic tenor who lost his sight, Andrea _ (7) |
| LUCIANO | ____ Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor (7) |
| VERISMO | Late 19th-century Italian operatic tradition |
| BELLINI | Italian composer, d. 1835 (7) |
| BRITTEN | English composer, d. 1976 (7) |
| POULENC | French composer, d. 1963 - clone up (anag) (7) |
| SMETANA | Czech composer, d. 1884 - Eastman (anag) (7) |
| BORODIN | Russian composer, d. 1887 (7) |
| BERLIOZ | Symphonie fantastique composer, d. 1869 (7) |
| NOVELLO | Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer, d. 1951 (7) |
| VIVALDI | Venetian composer, d. 1741 (7) |
| DEBUSSY | French composer d. 1918 |
| KAFKA | Franz ___ , Czech novelist, d. 1924 (5) |
