| ALEKO | One-act opera by Rachmaninov adapted from Pushkin's poem The Gypsies (5) |
| AMAHL | ___ and the Night Visitors, 1951 one-act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti (5) |
| SERGE | Material one's taken from Rachmaninov, ultimately |
| ROACH | Nothing in a Rachmaninov piece can be termed fishy! |
| AMIEL | ___ Gladstone and Veda Hille (Canadian co-writers of the musical Onegin, a rockingly fresh adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's 19thcentury Russian story) |
| PETRA | Pushkin's "Arap ___ Velikogo" |
| BLINI | Pushkin's pancakes |
| BORIS | Pushkin's "___ Godunov" |
| ELECTRA | One-act opera by Richard Strauss after a drama by Sophocles (7) |
| INTAHITI | 1952 one-act opera by Leonard Bernstein based on the relationship of his parents (7,2,6) |
| TROUBLE | 1952 one-act opera by Leonard Bernstein based on the relationship of his parents (7,2,6) |
| SUORANGELICA | 1918 one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini (4,8) |
| SALOME | One-act opera by Richard Strauss (6) |
| CAVALLERIARUSTICANA | One-act opera by Mascagni (10,9) |
| HELENE | One-act opera by Camille Saint-Saens |
| ANGELICA | 'Suor -', one-act opera by Puccini (8) |
| MAZEPPA | Tchaikovsky opera based on Pushkin's poem Poltava (7) |
| PETULENGRO | Surname of the horse trader, violinist, businessman, writer and broadcaster known as the "King of the Gypsies" |
| GOSSEC | Francois-Joseph, composer of the 1766 one-act opera Les pecheurs (6) |
| PUCCINI | Composer of the 1918 one-act opera Gianni Schicchi (7,7) |