| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| MANDARINCONCERTO | 1725 Vivaldi work, in a first language? |
| EVA | First name in a Lloyd Webber work |
| ARMA | First word in Vergil work |
| ILIAD | First work read in Columbia's Literature Humanities course |
| EROICA | Work first publicly performed at the Theater an der Wien in 1805 |
| ERNANI | Verdi work that was the first opera to be recorded in its entirety |
| RINGCYCLE | Musical work in four parts, with its first part opening the Met's 2010-11 season |
| ARMORYSHOW | Event at which the work spelled out by the shaded letters was first exhibited in America |
