Opera houses are listed by continent, then by country with the name of the opera house and city; the opera company is sometimes named for clarity. Note: there are many theatres whose name includes the words Opera House but which do not currently put on opera regularly (or, in some cases, at all). Such theatres are not included in this list.
Africa
Sayed Darwish Theatre, Alexandria
Egypt
Eritrea
South Africa
Americas
Argentina
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, at night
Brazil
- Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
- Teatro Arthur Azevedo, São Luís
- Teatro da Paz, Belém
- Teatro José de Alencar, Fortaleza
- Teatro Santa Isabel, Recife
- Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro
- Teatro Municipal, São Paulo
- Teatro Pedro II, Ribeirão Preto
- Teatro São Pedro, Porto Alegre
- Wire Opera House, Curitiba
Canada
The Four Seasons Centre, from University Avenue and Queen Street
- Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, a theatre of the Place des Arts, (Montréal Opera), Montréal, Quebec
- Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts (Canadian Opera Company), Toronto, Ontario
- Southam Hall, National Arts Centre, (Opera Lyra Ottawa), Ottawa, Ontario
- Queen Elizabeth Theatre, (Vancouver Opera), Vancouver, British Columbia
- Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, (Edmonton Opera), Edmonton, Alberta
- Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, (Calgary Opera), Calgary, Alberta
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Mexico
United States
- Academy of Music (Opera Company of Philadelphia), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Bass Performance Hall (Fort Worth Opera), Fort Worth, Texas
- Benedum Center (Pittsburgh Opera), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Brown Theater, Wortham Theater Center (Houston Grand Opera), Houston, Texas
- California Theater, (Opera San Jose), San Jose
- Central City Opera House (Central City Opera), Central City, Colorado
- Civic Opera House (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Chicago, Illinois
- Crosby Theatre (Santa Fe Opera), Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Detroit Opera House (Michigan Opera Theater), Detroit, Michigan
- Dicapo Opera Theatre (Dicapo Opera), New York, New York
- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles Opera), Los Angeles, California
- Ellie Caulkins Opera House (Opera Colorado), Denver, Colorado
The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, as seen from the Potomac River
- Harrison Opera House (Virginia Opera), Norfolk, Virginia
- Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House (Washington National Opera), Washington, D.C.
- Lyric Opera House (Baltimore Opera), Baltimore, Maryland
- Marcus Center (Florentine Opera), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- McCaw Hall (Seattle Opera), Seattle, Washington
- Metropolitan Opera House (Metropolitan Opera), New York, New York
- Music Hall (Cincinnati Opera), Cincinnati, Ohio
- New York State Theater (New York City Opera), New York, New York
The San Francisco War Memorial Opera House
- Newberry Opera House (South Carolina Opera and Asheville Lyric Opera), Newberry, South Carolina
- Sarasota Opera House (Sarasota Opera), Sarasota, Florida
- War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco Opera), San Francisco, California
- Segerstrom Hall (Opera Pacific), Costa Mesa, California
- Winspear Opera House (Dallas Opera), Dallas, Texas, opening 2009
- Ziff Ballet Opera House, Miami, Florida
Uruguay
Asia and Oceania
Australia
- Sydney Opera House, (Opera Australia), Sydney
- State Theatre, The Arts Centre (also known as the Victorian Arts Centre), (Opera Australia), Melbourne
- Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
- Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, South Australia
- His Majesty's Theatre, Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
- Theatre Royal, Hobart, Tasmania
- Canberra Theatre, Canberra
- Playhouse, Darwin Entertainment Centre, Darwin, North Territory
New Zealand
China
Tel Aviv Performing Arts Centre
India
Israel
Palace of Culture (Istana Budaya), Kuala Lumpur
Japan
- Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo
- NHK Hall, Tokyo
- New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT), Tokyo
- Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo
- Aichi Arts Centre, Nagoya
- Biwako Hall, Otsu, Shiga
- Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama
- Yokosuka Arts Theatre, Yokosuka
Kazakhstan
Malaysia
Mongolia
National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Thailand
Main entrance to the Ankara Opera House
Turkey
Vietnam
Europe
The Vienna Staatsoper, at night
Austria
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Façade of De Munt/ La Monnaie, Brussels
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
The Copenhagen Opera House 2005
See also: Opera houses in the Czech Republic
Denmark
England
The Royal Opera House, Bow Street frontage, with the statue of Dame Ninnette de Valois in the foreground
Estonia
Finland
France
The Palais Garnier, Paris
- Opéra royal du château de Versailles, Versailles
- Grand Théâtre, Angers
- Grand Théâtre, Bordeaux
- Nouvel Opéra, Lyon
- Opéra Bastille, Paris
- Opéra Théâtre de Besançon, Besançon
- Opéra-Comique, Paris
- Opéra de Lille, Lille
- Opéra Théâtre de Limoges, Limoges
- Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy
- Opéra de Marseille, Marseille
- Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg
- Opéra de Rennes, Rennes
- Opéra de Rouen, Rouen
- Opéra-théâtre de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne
- Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, Metz
- Opéra de Toulon, Toulon
- Opéra de Tours, Tours
- Opéra et Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
- Palais Garnier, Paris
- Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse
- Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
- Théâtre Graslin, Nantes
Germany
- Aalto-Theater, Essen
- Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
- Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre), Bayreuth
- Deutsche Oper am Rhein (German Opera of the Rhine), Düsseldorf
- Deutsche Oper Berlin (Berlin German Opera), Berlin
- Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden Festival Theatre), Baden-Baden
- Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera), Frankfurt
- Hamburgische Staatsoper (Hamburg State Opera), Hamburg
- Komische Oper Berlin, Berlin
- Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth
- Musiktheather im Revier, Gelsenkirchen
- Nationaltheater, Mannheim
- Nationaltheater (Bavarian State Opera), Munich
- Oper Leipzig (Leipzig Opera), Leipzig
- Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
- Opernhaus Halle, Halle
- Opernhaus Kiel, Kiel
- Theater Lübeck, Lübeck
- Prinzregententheater, Munich
- Semperoper or Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera), Dresden
- Staatsoper Hannover, Hannover
- Staatstheater Nürnberg, Nürnberg
- Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Berlin
- Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich
- Staatstheater Kassel, Kassel
- Staatstheater Stuttgart, Stuttgart
- Theater Duisburg, Duisburg
Georgia
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Interior of La Fenice (Venice) in 1837.
- Arena di Verona, Verona
- Sferisterio, Macerata
- Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan
- Teatro alla Scala, Milan (La Scala)
- Teatro Argentina, Rome
- Teatro Carignano, Turin
- Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
- Teatro Comunale Alighieri, Ravenna
- Teatro Comunale, Bologna
- Teatro Comunale, Ferrara
- Teatro Comunale, Florence
- Teatro Comunale, Modena
- Teatro della Pergola, Florence
- Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo
- Teatro La Fenice, Venice
- Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste
- Teatro Fraschini, Pavia
- Teatro Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria
- Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto
- Teatro della Gran Guardia, Livorno
- Teatro Grande, Brescia
- Teatro Lirico, Cagliari
- Teatro Malibran, Venice
- Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele, Palermo
- Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania
Inside of Verona Arena with scenery for an opera performance, summer 1994
- Teatro Municipale, Piacenza
- Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Rome
- Teatro Politeama, Lecce
- Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona
- Teatro Regio di Parma, Parma
- Teatro Regio Torino, Turin
- Teatro Rossini, Pesaro
- Teatro di San Carlo, Naples
- Teatro Sociale, Como
- Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Monaco
The new opera house in Oslo, Norway
The restored Teatr Wielki, Warsaw
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
- Baltic State Opera, Gdańsk
- Kraków Opera House, Cracow
- Opera Nova, Bydgoszcz
- Silesian Opera, Bytom
- Teatr Wielki, Łódź, Łódź
- Teatr Wielki, Poznań, Poznań
- Teatr Wielki, Warsaw (Polish National Opera), Warsaw
- Warszawska Opera Kameralna, Warsaw
- Wrocław Opera House, Wrocław
Portugal
Romania
Russia
The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
The façade of the Liceu, Barcelona, as viewed from La Rambla
Spain
- Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
- Teatro Real, Madrid
- Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall, Bilbao
- El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia
- Palacio de la Ópera, A Coruña
- Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo
- Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville
- Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid
- Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao
- Kursaal Palace, Donostia-San Sebastián
- Teatre Principal de Maó, Mahón
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
The Wales Millennium Centre
Wales
References
- Allison, John (ed.), Great Opera Houses of the World, supplement to Opera Magazine, London 2003
- Beauvert, Thierry, Opera Houses of the World, The Vendome Press, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-86565-978-8
- Lynn, Karyl Charna, Opera: the Guide to Western Europe's Great Houses, Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-945465-81-5
- Lynn, Karyl Charna, Italian Opera Houses and Festivals, Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5359-0
- Plantamura, Carol, The Opera Lover's Guide to Europe, Citadel Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8065-1842-1
See also
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