Senarai syarikat opera utama membariskan syarikat-syarikat yang juga merupakan rumah-rumah opera yang ternama, beroperasi sepenuh masa untuk persembahan-persembahan opera untuk sepanjang tahun berdasarkan ciri-ciri pemilihan di bawah.
| Syarikat opera | Nama teater (jika tidak sama dengan nama syarikat) |
Lokasi |
|---|---|---|
| Bavarian State Opera | Nationaltheater München | Munich |
| Bolshoi Theatre | Moscow | |
| Canadian Opera Company | Four Seasons Centre | Toronto |
| Deutsche Oper am Rhein | Opernhaus Düsseldorf dan Theater Duisburg | Düsseldorf |
| Deutsche Oper Berlin | Berlin | |
| English National Opera | London Coliseum | London |
| Finnish National Opera | Helsinki | |
| Grand Théâtre de Genève | Geneva | |
| Greek National Opera | Olympia Theatre | Athens |
| Hamburg State Opera | Hamburg | |
| Houston Grand Opera | Wortham Theater Center | Houston |
| Hungarian State Opera | Budapest | |
| Komische Oper | Berlin | |
| Liceu | Gran Teatre del Liceu | Barcelona |
| Los Angeles Opera | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion | Los Angeles |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | Civic Opera House | Chicago |
| Mariinsky Opera (nama lama "Kirov Opera") | Mariinsky Theatre | Saint Petersburg |
| Metropolitan Opera | Metropolitan Opera House | New York |
| La Monnaie | Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie | Brussel |
| National Opera dan Ballet Sofia | Sofia | |
| National Theatre | Prague | |
| Nationaltheater Mannheim | Mannheim | |
| De Nederlandse Opera | Musiektheatre | Amsterdam |
| New National Theatre, Tokyo | Tokyo | |
| New York City Opera | New York State Theater | New York |
| Oper Frankfurt | Frankfurt | |
| Oper Leipzig | Leipzig | |
| Opera Australia | Sydney Opera House | Sydney |
| Opéra-Comique | Salle Favart | Paris |
| Opéra de Marseille | Opéra Municipal | Marseille |
| Opéra de Monte-Carlo | Salle Garnier | Monte Carlo |
| Opéra National de Lyon | Nouvel Opéra | Lyon |
| Opéra National de Paris | L’Opéra de la Bastille | Paris |
| Polish National Opera | Teatr Wielki | Warsaw |
| Royal Danish Theatre | Copenhagen Opera House | Copenhagen |
| Royal Opera | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | London |
| Royal Swedish Opera | Operan | Stockholm |
| Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden | Semper Oper | Dresden |
| San Francisco Opera | War Memorial Opera House | San Francisco |
| La Scala | Teatro alla Scala | Milan |
| Seattle Opera | McCaw Hall | Seattle |
| Staatsoper Hannover | Hannover | |
| Staatsoper Stuttgart | Staatstheater Stuttgart | Stuttgart |
| Staatsoper Unter den Linden | Berlin | |
| Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz | Munich | |
| Teatro Colón | Teatro Colón | Buenos Aires |
| Teatro Comunale di Bologna | Bologna | |
| Teatro La Fenice | Venice | |
| Teatro Massimo | Palermo | |
| Teatro Nacional de São Carlos | Lisbon | |
| Teatro dell'Opera di Roma | Rom | |
| Teatro Real | Madrid | |
| Teatro Regio Torino | Turin | |
| Teatro di San Carlo | Naples | |
| Théâtre du Châtelet | Paris | |
| Vienna State Opera | Vienna | |
| Volksoper Wien | Vienna | |
| Washington National Opera | Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | Washington, D.C. |
| Welsh National Opera | Wales Millennium Centre | Cardiff |
| Zurich Opera | Opernhaus Zürich | Zurich |
Ciri-ciri pemilihan
Ciri-ciri pemilihan yang digunakan untuk senarai di atas adalah berdasarkan :
- Keunggulan dari segi persembahan artistik masa kini dan piawaian syarikat;
- Jumlah atau saiz untuk ahli /kumpulan orkestra atau ensembel;
- Kewangan atau kemampuan untuk mempersembahkan opera skala besar;
- Jumlah persembahan opera dan jualan tempat duduk setiap tahun;
- Berdasarkan kepentingan sejarah dan hubungkait dengan penggubah, konduktor muzik dan penyanyi terkenal.
Buku rujukan
- Allison, John (ed.), Great Opera Houses of the World, dari 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, Italian Opera Houses dan Festivals, Lanham, Maryldan: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5359-0
- Plantamura, Carol, The Opera Lover's Guide to Europe, Secaucus, NJ: Citidal Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8065-1842-1
- Zietz, Karyl Lynn, Opera: the Guide to Western Europe's Great Houses, Santa Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-945465-81-5
Pautan luar
- Kritik Opera, Laman mengenai syarikat opera dsb
- Operissimo, Pengkalan data mengenai syarikat dan penghibur opera