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| Place | Composer | Performances | Productions | Number of operas | Country | Style |
| 1 | Verdi | 3153 | 605 | 26 | It | Ro |
| 2 | Mozart | 2618 | 465 | 14 | Au | Cl |
| 3 | Puccini | 2587 | 469 | 11 | It | Ve |
| 4 | Wagner | 1156 | 311 | 12 | Ge | Ro |
| 5 | Rossini | 998 | 200 | 17 | It | Ro |
| 6 | Donizetti | 989 | 186 | 23 | It | Ro |
| 7 | R.Strauss | 759 | 179 | 12 | Ge | Ro |
| 8 | Bizet | 736 | 126 | 4 | Fr | Ve |
| 9 | Britten | 362 | 91 | 15 | UK | NC |
| 10 | Gounod | 334 | 63 | 3 | Fr | Ro |
| 11 | Janacek | 330 | 90 | 4 | Cz | Mo |
| 12 | Bellini | 273 | 51 | 5 | It | Ro |
| 13 | Chaikovsky | 268 | 57 | 6 | Ru | Ro |
| 14 | Handel | 263 | 49 | 14 | UK | Ba |
| 15 | Massenet | 257 | 54 | 12 | Fr | Ro |
| 16 | Humperdinck | 254 | 49 | 1 | Ge | Ro |
| 17 | Mascagni | 235 | 51 | 3 | It | Ve |
| 18 | Leoncavallo | 222 | 44 | 1 | It | Ve |
| 19 | Smetana | 188 | 33 | 6 | Cz | Ro |
| 20 | Weber | 172 | 27 | 3 | Ge | Ro |
| 21 | Berg | 163 | 32 | 2 | Au | At |
| 22 | Giordano | 160 | 36 | 7 | It | Ve |
| 23 | Offenbach | 156 | 31 | 1 | Fr | Ro |
| 24 | Monteverdi | 150 | 30 | 3 | It | Ba |
| 25 | Beethoven | 138 | 28 | 1 | Ge | Cl |
| 26 | Gluck | 137 | 23 | 6 | Ge | Cl |
| 27 | Debussy | 136 | 27 | 1 | Fr | Im |
| 28 | Poulenc | 118 | 33 | 4 | Fr | Mo |
| 29 | Stravinsky | 115 | 22 | 5 | Ru | NC |
| 30 | Weill | 113 | 20 | 9 | Ge | Mo |
| 31 | Musorgsky | 109 | 23 | 2 | Ru | Ro |
| 32 | Saint-Saens | 97 | 19 | 1 | Fr | Ro |
| 33 | Floyd | 91 | 24 | 3 | US | Ro |
| 34 | Prokofiev | 82 | 13 | 5 | Ru | NC |
| 35 | Haydn | 78 | 26 | 9 | Au | Cl |
| 36 | Menotti | 75 | 18 | 7 | US | Mo |
| 37 | Ravel | 74 | 12 | 2 | Fr | Im |
| 38 | Boito | 74 | 11 | 2 | It | Ro |
| 39 | Ponchielli | 74 | 16 | 1 | It | Ro |
| 40 | Gershwin | 72 | 15 | 2 | US | Mo |
| 41 | Purcell | 69 | 12 | 2 | UK | Ba |
| 42 | Glass | 66 | 9 | 6 | US | Mo |
| 43 | Rameau | 64 | 16 | 7 | Fr | Ba |
| 44 | Dvorak | 55 | 9 | 3 | Cz | Ro |
| 45 | Wolf-Ferrari | 54 | 8 | 4 | It | NC |
| 46 | Shostakovich | 51 | 7 | 2 | Ru | Mo |
| 47 | Schonberg | 49 | 9 | 5 | Au | At |
| 48 | Berlioz | 49 | 11 | 4 | Fr | Ro |
| 49 | Martinu | 47 | 19 | 5 | Cz | Mo |
| 50 | Nicolai | 44 | 8 | 1 | Ge | Ro |
| 51 | Cavalli | 43 | 8 | 3 | It | Ba |
| 52 | Henze | 42 | 9 | 7 | Ge | Mo |
| 53 | Zemlinsky | 39 | 6 | 2 | Au | Ro |
| 54 | Rota | 38 | 7 | 4 | It | NC |
| 55 | Bartok | 37 | 7 | 1 | Hu | Im |
| 56 | Lortzing | 33 | 2 | 2 | Ge | Ro |
| 57 | Paisiello | 31 | 7 | 4 | It | Cl |
| 58 | Ligeti | 31 | 12 | 1 | Hu | Mo |
| 59 | Kodaly | 30 | 5 | 2 | Hu | Ro |
