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Canada

Alberta

Calgary Opera Calgary Opera is a Canadian opera company based in Calgary, Alberta. The company has its administrative base at the Mamdani Opera Centre, a facility in the Wesley United Church, since July 2005. The company gives its seasonal mainstage productio ...

Edmonton Opera Edmonton Opera is a professional Canadian opera company in Edmonton, Alberta, which performs in the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium with its Opera Centre located at 15230 128 Ave in northwest Edmonton. The Opera Centre is home to a box office, ...

British Columbia

*Opera Pro Cantanti, Vancouver *

Vancouver Opera Vancouver Opera is the second largest performing arts organization in British Columbia and the largest opera company in western Canada. Its mainstage performances occur in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, other venues in Vancouver and occasionally els ...

City Opera of Vancouver City Opera of Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company in Vancouver, Canada, founded in 2006. Its past productions include the Vancouver premiere of Nigredo Hotel by Ann-Marie MacDonald and Nic Gotham; commission and premiere of 'Missing ...

Pacific Opera Victoria Pacific Opera Victoria is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It performs three full productions per season at Victoria's Royal Theatre accompanied by members of the Victoria Symphony. In their 2009/2010 season, Pacific Opera Victoria ex ...

*Vancouver Concert Opera Co-Operative (VanCOCO) *Opera di Concertisti e Meraviglie, Vancouver

Manitoba

* Manitoba Opera, Winnipeg

Ontario

* Canadian Children's Opera Company *

Canadian Opera Company The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest opera company in Canada and one of the largest producers of opera in North America. The COC performs in its own opera house, the Four Seasons Cent ...

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anch ...

* Centuries Opera Association, Toronto *

Opera Atelier Opera Atelier is an opera company located in Toronto, Canada. It was founded in 1985 by husband and wife Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg. The company mounts baroque operas from the 17th and 18th centuries that are presented in venu ...

, Toronto * Opera in Concert, Toronto * Tapestry Opera, Toronto *Toronto City Opera * Against the Grain Theatre (AtG), Toronto

Quebec

* Opéra de Montréal * Opéra de Québec

Saskatchewan

*Saskatoon Opera

United States

Alabama

Mobile Opera Mobile Opera is an opera company located in Mobile, Alabama and is one of the oldest performing arts organizations in the United States,Recognized by OPERA America as the 13th oldest opera company in the United States (source: Mobileopera.org) as w ...

*Opera Birmingham

Alaska

* Anchorage Opera *Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre *Juneau Lyric Opera Association *Opera Fairbanks

Arizona

* Arizona Opera, Phoenix and Tucson * Phoenix Opera

Arkansas

*Opera Fayetteville * Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point *Opera in the Rock *Ozark Family Opera Company * Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts

California

*Berkeley Chamber Opera *California Opera Association *Capitol Opera Sacramento *Celestial Opera Company * Cinnabar Opera Theater *Center Stage Opera *Festival Opera *First Look Sonoma *

Gallo Center for the Arts The Gallo Center for the Arts is a performing arts center in Modesto, California. The building was formally opened on September 27, 2007 and features two theaters: the Mary Stuart Rogers Theater and the Foster Family Theater. The Gallo Center ho ...

* Goat Hall Productions *Golden Gate Opera *Independent Opera Company, Los Angeles *

Lamplighters Music Theatre Lamplighters Music Theatre is a semi-professional musical theatre company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1952 by Orva Hoskinson and Ann Pool MacNab, the Lamplighters specialize in light opera, particularly the works of Gilbert and Su ...

*Livermore Valley Opera *

Long Beach Opera Long Beach Opera is a Southern California opera company serving the greater Los Angeles and Orange County metroplex. Founded in 1979, it is the oldest continually running opera company in the L.A. area. Though small in size, the company has surveye ...

Los Angeles Civic Light Opera The Los Angeles Civic Light Opera (LACLO) was an American theatre/opera company in Los Angeles, California. Founded under the motto "Light Opera in the Grand Opera manner" in 1938 by impresario Edwin Lester, the organization presented fifty seaso ...

*Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera * Los Angeles Opera * Lyric Opera of Los Angeles * Lyric Opera San Diego *Martinez Opera *Merola Opera Program *

Music Academy of the West The Music Academy is a classical music training program in Montecito in Santa Barbara County, California. Overview The academy hosts an annual eight-week summer music festival, highlighted by concerts and workshops directed by famous composer ...

*Musical Traditions *North Bay Opera *Oakland Opera Theater * Opera a la Carte * Opera Pacific (closed November 2008) *Opera Pasadena *Opera Parallèle, San Francisco *Opera Royale *

Opera San José Opera San José is an American opera company founded in 1984 by Irene Dalis (1925-2014) based in San Jose, California. History Opera San José was founded in 1984 by mezzo-soprano singer Irene Dalis (1925-2014), who directed the company for ...

*Opera San Luis Obispo *Opera Santa Barbara *Pacific Opera Project *Pacific Repertory Opera *

Pocket Opera Pocket Opera is a professional chamber opera company based in San Francisco, California that presents staged chamber productions of operas sung in English. The company, founded in 1978, offers performances of both famous and lesser-known selectio ...

*Repertory Opera Company *Riverside Lyric Opera *Sacramento Opera *

San Diego Opera The San Diego Opera Association (SDO) is a professional opera company located in the city of San Diego, California. It incorporated in 1965, presenting operas under the name of the San Diego Opera.San Francisco Opera San Francisco Opera (SFO) is an American opera company founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola (1881–1953) based in San Francisco, California. History Gaetano Merola (1923–1953) Merola's road to prominence in the Bay Area began in 1906 when h ...

*Stockton Opera Association *The Industry *Townsend Opera Players *Tyrolean Opera Program *Verismo Opera *Visalia Opera Company *West Bay Opera Association * West Edge Opera

Colorado

* Aspen Music Festival *Boulder Opera Company *

Central City Opera Central City Opera is the fifth-oldest opera company in the United States, founded in 1932 by Julie Penrose and Anne Evans. Each festival is presented in the 550-seat historic Central City Opera House built in 1878 in the gold mining era town of Ce ...

*Crested Butte Music Festival *Empire Lyric Players *Loveland Opera Theatre *

Opera Colorado Opera Colorado is an opera company located in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1981, it presents an annual season of three to four fully staged productions. Its primary performance venue is the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. History The company was founde ...

*Opera Fort Collins *Opera Theatre of the Rockies *Rocky Mountain Opera

Connecticut

Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra The Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra was a non-profit, professional opera company and orchestra founded under that name in 1993 and based in Stamford, Connecticut in the United States. By uniting several organizations including the then-Connec ...

Connecticut Lyric Opera The Connecticut Lyric Opera, founded in 2003 by a group of professional musicians and opera-lovers and based in New London, Connecticut, is now the only full-season opera company in Southeastern Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost ...

Connecticut Opera Connecticut Opera was a professional, non-profit, opera company based in Hartford, Connecticut, and a member of OPERA America. The company presented three fully staged opera productions during an annual season. It was founded in 1942 under the d ...

(closed in Feb 2009) *Hartford Opera Theater *Hartford Wagner Festival * Hillhouse Opera Company *Opera Connecticut *Opera Theater of Connecticut * Salt Marsh Opera *Yale Baroque Opera Project

Delaware

Opera Delaware Opera Delaware is a professional opera company located in Wilmington, Delaware. The company was founded in 1944 and is one of the oldest professional opera companies in the United States. To date the company has staged 198 productions of 104 operas ...

District of Columbia

* Bel Cantanti Opera *Maryland Lyric Opera *Opera Camerata of Washington * Opera Lafayette *DC Public Opera *Summer Opera Theatre Company
(closed January 2010) * Washington Concert Opera *

Washington National Opera The Washington National Opera (WNO) is an American opera company in Washington, D.C. Formerly the Opera Society of Washington and the Washington Opera, the company received Congressional designation as the National Opera Company in 2000. Perform ...

Washington Savoyards Washington Savoyards was a professional musical theatre company based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1972, the company annually produced three fully staged musicals and operettas, usually including at least one Gilbert and Sullivan production eac ...

Florida

*Central Florida Lyric Opera *

Florida Grand Opera Florida Grand Opera (FGO) is an American opera company based in Miami, Florida. It is the oldest performing arts organization in Florida and the seventh oldest opera company in the United States. FGO was created in 1994 from the consolidation of ...

*Hispanic-American Lyric Theatre * Miami Lyric Opera *New Century Opera *Opera del Sol *Opera Jacksonville *Opera Naples *

Opera Tampa Opera Tampa is an American opera company located in Tampa, Florida, where it is resident company at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts. History Opera Tampa debuted in 1996 with its first production, ''Madama Butterfly''. Since then, the co ...

*Opera Theater of Lakeland *Opera Orlando * Orlando Opera *

Palm Beach Opera Palm Beach Opera, a professional opera company in West Palm Beach, Florida performs at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts as well as other locations throughout South Florida, was founded in 1961 as "Civic Opera of the Palm Beaches." Over its ...

Pensacola Opera The Pensacola Opera is an American opera company located in Pensacola, Florida Pensacola () is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, and the county seat and only incorporated city of Escambia County, Florida, United States. As of the 202 ...

Sarasota Opera Sarasota Opera is a professional opera company in Sarasota, Florida, USA, which was founded as the Asolo Opera Guild and, until 1974, presented a visiting company's productions. Between 1974 and 1979, it set about mounting its own productions in t ...

*St. Petersburg Opera Company

Georgia

*The

Atlanta Opera The Atlanta Opera is an opera company located in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Founded in 1979, it produces mainstage opera productions and arts education programs for Metropolitan Atlanta and the Southeast. In 2007, The Atlanta Opera moved into ...

*Augusta Opera *Americolor Opera Alliance *Capitol City Opera *Moon River Opera *Peach State Opera *See also '' Opera in Atlanta''

Hawaii

Hawaii Opera Theatre The Hawaii Opera Theatre (HOT) is the islands' only major opera company established in 1960. The company performs three or more operas in a season. Opera seasons start in October and end in the early summer of the following year. It performs mostly ...

* Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus

Idaho

*Idaho Falls Opera Theatre *North Idaho Friends of the Opera and the Arts Inc. *Opera Idaho

Illinois

*Bowen Park Opera Company *

Chicago Opera Theater The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is an American opera company based in Chicago, Illinois. COT is a resident company at the Harris Theater (Chicago), Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago's Millennium Park and is currently in residence at th ...

*da Corneto Opera *

DuPage Opera Theatre The DuPage Opera Theatre (DOT) is one of three professional opera companies located in the Chicago area, along with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago Opera Theater. Founded in 1977 as a resident, professional ensemble at the McAninch Art ...

*Haymarket Opera Company *

Light Opera Works Music Theater Works (formerly Light Opera Works) is a resident professional not-for-profit musical theatre company in Evanston, Illinois. It was founded in 1980 by Philip Kraus, Bridget McDonough, and Ellen Dubinsky. Music Theater Works has presen ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicola Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria ...

Muddy River Opera Company Located in Quincy, Illinois, the Muddy River Opera Company was founded by Mary Anne Scott and Mary Jane McCloskey in 1989 as a non-profit arts organization. The company was incorporated in 1990. Scott and McCloskey had two goals in mind: to make ...

*Opera Illinois

Indiana

Indianapolis Opera Indianapolis Opera is an opera company based in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the only professional opera company in Indiana and hosts a number of fully staged productions each season. It also supports a Young Artist Program. The company is led ...

*Indiana University Opera,

Jacobs School of Music The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, is a music conservatory established in 1921. Until 2005, it was known as the Indiana University School of Music. It has more than 1,500 students, approximately half of whom ar ...

, Bloomington *South Bend Lyric Opera

Iowa

*Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre *

Des Moines Metro Opera Des Moines Metro Opera is an opera company in Indianola, Iowa, a town of approximately 14,000 inhabitants which lies some south of Des Moines, Iowa. It was founded by Robert L. Larsen and Douglas Duncan in 1973. The director is Michael Egel. ...

Kansas

*OperaKansas *Wichita Grand Opera * Lawrence Opera Theatre

Kentucky

Kentucky Opera The Kentucky Opera is an American opera company based in Louisville, Kentucky. The company is resident at the Brown Theatre, as part of Kentucky Performing Arts. The Louisville Orchestra is the accompanying orchestra for the company. Moritz von ...

Louisiana

*Jefferson Performing Arts Society *

New Orleans Opera Opera has long been part of the musical culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. Operas have regularly been performed in the city since the 1790s, and since the early 19th century, New Orleans has had a resident company regularly performing opera in ad ...

*Opera Louisiane *

Shreveport Opera The Shreveport Opera is an opera company in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States ...

Maine

* PORTopera, Portland

Maryland

*American Opera Theater *Annapolis Opera *

Baltimore Opera Company The Baltimore Opera Company (BOC) was an opera company in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., based at the Baltimore Lyric Opera House. On 12 March 2009, the 58-year-old opera company announced plans to pursue Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation, the re ...

(closed March 2009) * Bel Cantanti Opera *Baltimore Concert Opera *Maryland Opera *Opera International

Massachusetts

*Acting Singers Project * Berkshire Opera Company (closed 2009) *

Boston Lyric Opera Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is an American opera company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1976. BLO is the largest and longest-lived opera company in New England. BLO employs nearly 350 artists and creative professionals annually—vocalist ...

Boston Metro Opera Boston Metro Opera was a semi-professional American opera company based in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts. The company specialized in contemporary works and operated from 2008 to 2015. It also sponsored and ran the Boston-International Co ...

(closed 2015) * Boston Early Music Festival *Boston Opera Collaborative *Cape Cod Opera *Commonwealth Lyric Theater *Commonwealth Opera *Helios Early Opera *Longwood Opera *Lowell House Opera, the oldest still-performing opera company in New England *MetroWest Opera * Odyssey Opera *

Opera Boston Opera Boston was an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. It specialized in less-frequently heard repertoire as well as modern works or opera premieres, along with opera education and outreach programs designed to bring opera education to childr ...

(closed 2011) *Opera del West *OperaHub * Guerilla Opera

Michigan

* Detroit Opera
Traverse City Opera
*Opera Grand Rapids *Opera MODO

Minnesota

*Lyric Opera of the North (LOON Opera Company) *Minnesota Concert Opera (closed 2017) *

Minnesota Opera Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded as the Center Opera Company in 1963 by the Walker Art Center, and is known for premiering such diverse works as ''Where the Wild Things Are'' by Oliver ...

*Nautilus Music-Theater *Skylark Opera Theatre *Arbeit Opera Theatre *

Really Spicy Opera Really Spicy Opera is a non-profit performing arts organization that produces live opera and musicals in Minneapolis, Minnesota. RSO is a professional opera company that operated in Boston from 2006-2013; it has been based in the Twin Cities since ...

Mississippi

* Mississippi Opera *Natchez Festival of Music

Missouri

*Kansas City Metro Opera * Lyric Opera of Kansas City *

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) is an American summer opera festival held in St. Louis, Missouri. Typically four operas, all sung in English, are presented each season, which runs from late May to late June. Performances are accompanied by th ...

*Springfield Regional Opera *Heartland Opera Theatre * Union Avenue Opera *Winter Opera Saint Louis

Montana

*Montana Lyric Opera *Rimrock Opera *Intermountain Opera/Opera Bozeman

Nebraska

Opera Omaha Opera Omaha is a major regional opera company in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1958, the professional company is widely known for the International Fall Festival events it held in the 1980s and 1990s, which garnered international attention and served ...

*Nebraska Opera Project

Nevada

* Nevada Opera * Opera Las Vegas *Vegas City Opera

New Hampshire

*Granite State Opera (closed April 2009) *Opera New Hampshire *

Opera North Opera North is an English opera company based in Leeds. The company's home theatre is the Leeds Grand Theatre, but it also presents regular seasons in several other cities, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays and ...

*Raylynmor Opera

New Jersey

*Boheme Opera New Jersey *Eastern Opera of New Jersey *Garden State Philharmonic *Light Opera of New Jersey *The Little Opera Company of New Jersey *New Jersey Concert Opera *New Jersey Opera Theater *Opera Seabrook *Opera Theatre of Montclair

New Mexico

Opera Southwest Opera Southwest (formerly known as Albuquerque Opera Theatre) is an American professional opera company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1972, it has presented many world premieres of new operas in addition to the standard repertoire. ...

, Albuquerque *

Santa Fe Opera Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company, located north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. After creating the ''Opera Association of New Mexico'' in 1956, its founding director, John Crosby, oversaw the building of the first opera house on a newl ...

New York

Amato Opera Amato ( Calabrian: ; ) is an Arbëreshë ''comune'' and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy. History Amato is one of the oldest towns in Calabria. It is mentioned by the Greek philosopher Aristotle and by the Roman ...

(closed 2009) * American Lyric Theater * American Opera Projects *

American Savoyards American Savoyards was an Off-Broadway and touring repertory theatre company that produced light operas, principally the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, in New York City and on tour between 1948 and 1967. Beginnings In 1948, director Dorothy Raedle ...

(closed 1967) *Amore Opera *Apotheosis Opera *Bare Opera * Bronx Opera *Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera *Cantiamo Opera Theater *Capitol Opera Albany-Saratoga *

Center for Contemporary Opera The Center for Contemporary Opera (CCO) is a professional opera company based in New York City, and a member of OPERA America. The company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and reviving rarely seen American opera ...

Chautauqua Opera The Chautauqua Opera is the resident summer opera company of the Chautauqua Institution. It is one of the oldest continuously active summer opera companies in the U.S, having been founded in 1929 as the Chautauqua Opera Association, and it has pro ...

* Chelsea Opera *Delaware Valley Opera Company * Dicapo Opera (Closed 2015) *Empire Opera *

Encompass New Opera Theatre Encompass New Opera Theatre is a professional opera company located in New York City which specializes in premiering new productions, and reviving 20th century operas by American and international composers. A member of Opera America, Encompass wa ...

*Finger Lakes Opera * Family Opera Initiative * The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island *

Glimmerglass Opera The Glimmerglass Festival (formerly known as Glimmerglass Opera) is an American opera company. Founded in 1975 by Peter Macris, the Glimmerglass Festival presents an annual season of operas at the Alice Busch Opera Theater on Otsego Lake eight ...

Gotham Chamber Opera Gotham Chamber Opera was a professional opera company located in New York City. The company was founded in 2000 under the name of the Henry Street Chamber Opera by Artistic Director Neal Goren and specialized in producing rarely performed chamber ...

(closed 2015) *Heartbeat Opera * Hubbard Hall Opera Theater *Hudson Lyric Opera *Hudson Opera Theatre *La Gran Scena Opera Company *

Opera Saratoga Opera Saratoga (until January 2011, named the Lake George Opera) is a professional opera company based in Saratoga Springs, New York. It performs an annual summer festival of three fully staged operas and operettas. The company and its associated ...

, formerly Lake George Opera *Liederkranz Opera Theater *

Light Opera of Manhattan Light Opera of Manhattan, known as LOOM, was an off-Broadway repertory theatre company that produced light operas, including the works of Gilbert and Sullivan and European and American operettas, 52 weeks per year, in New York City between 1968 ...

(closed 1992) *Little Opera Theatre of New York *Loft Opera *Long Island Opera Company *Mercury Opera Rochester * Metropolitan Opera, The *Millennial Arts Productions *New Camerata Opera *

New Opera Company The New Opera Company was a British opera company active during the period 1956 to 1984. It was mainly based at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London and later worked in co-ordination with English National Opera. The company was responsible for the premi ...

*New Rochelle Opera *

New York City Opera The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City. The company has been active from 1943 through 2013 (when it filed for bankruptcy), and again since 2016 when it was revived. The opera company, du ...

(closed October 2013, reopened January 2016) *

New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (often known as NYGASP) is a professional repertory theatre company, based in New York City that has specialized in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan for over 40 years. It performs an annual season in N ...

* New York Grand Opera Company *New York Opera Forum *New York Opera Project * Opera Company of Brooklyn *

Opera Ebony Opera Ebony is an African-American opera company that has performed in a wide variety of programs and venues, ranging from Mozart in Harlem to African-American Heritage concerts in Iceland to Gershwin in Moscow to Duke Ellington in the Caribbean. ...

*Opera Manhattan *Opera on Tap *

Opera Orchestra of New York The Opera Orchestra of New York (also known as OONY) specializes in the performance of opera in concert form. It is particularly known for its work in presenting rarely performed repertory. Among the numerous American premieres it has presented are ...

*Oswego Opera Theatre *PALA Opera Association *Regina Opera Company *Riverside Opera Ensemble *Seagle Music Colony *Syracuse Opera *Taconic Opera * Teatro Grattacielo * Teatro Nuovo * Tri-Cities Opera Company *Vertical Player Repertory *Vocal Productions NYC

North Carolina

* Asheville Lyric Opera *North Carolina Opera *Greensboro Opera Company *

Opera Carolina Opera Carolina is a professional opera company in Charlotte, North Carolina. Founded in 1948 by the Charlotte Music Club as the Charlotte Opera Association, the company was renamed Opera Carolina after its 1986 merger with North Carolina Opera whi ...

*Opera Wilmington *Piedmont Opera *Capitol Opera Raleigh *Durham Savoyards *Janiec Opera Company at the

Brevard Music Center Brevard Music Center is a classical music venue and festival held annually located in Brevard, North Carolina. It has been the home to their international summer institute and festival that enrolls about four hundred students, age fourteen and o ...

*The A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute at the

University of North Carolina The University of North Carolina is the multi-campus public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it is commonly referred to as the UNC Sy ...

School of the Arts

North Dakota

*Fargo-Moorhead Opera

Ohio

Cincinnati Opera Cincinnati Opera is an American opera company based in Cincinnati, Ohio and the second oldest opera company in the United States (after the New York Metropolitan Opera). Beginning with its first season in 1920, Cincinnati Opera has produced operas ...

*Cincinnati Chamber Opera *The Cleveland Opera *Cleveland Opera Theater * Dayton Opera * Opera Columbus *Opera Project Columbus *Opera Western Reserve *North American New Opera Workshop (Cincinnati) *

Toledo Opera The Toledo Opera is an American opera company in Toledo, Ohio, performing in the Valentine Theatre in downtown Toledo. The company's season consists of three fully-realized operas, plus additional community programming for the Northwest Ohio regi ...

Oklahoma

* Light Opera Oklahoma closed 2013 *

Tulsa Opera Tulsa Opera is an American opera company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Originally an amateur performance group named the Tulsa Opera Club (established 1948), the company was incorporated as a professional organization in 1953. Performances for the c ...

*Cimarron Opera *Painted Sky Opera

Oregon

*Opera Bend *Brava! Opera, Medford *Eugene Opera *

Portland Opera Portland Opera is an American opera company based at The Hampton Opera Center in Portland, Oregon. Its performances take place in the Keller Auditorium and Newmark Theatre, both part of the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. Portland Opera ...

*Rogue Opera, Medford

Pennsylvania

*Amici Opera * Center City Opera Theater *ConcertOPERA Philadelphia *Microscopic Opera Company *

Opera Philadelphia Opera Philadelphia (prior to 2013 Opera Company of Philadelphia (OCP)) is an American opera company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the city's only company producing grand opera. The organization produces one festival in September (Festival O ...

(formerly Opera Company of Philadelphia) *OperaLancaster *Opera North (Philadelphia) * Pittsburgh Festival Opera (formerly Opera Theater of Pittsburgh) *

Pittsburgh Opera Pittsburgh Opera is an American opera company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Opera gives performances in several venues, primarily at the Benedum Center, with other performances at the Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts Sch ...

* Pittsburgh Savoyards *Resonance Works Pittsburgh * Savoy Company

Puerto Rico

*Opera de Puerto Rico

Rhode Island

*Opera Providence

South Carolina

*Greenville Light Opera Works (GLOW) *Opera Charleston *Palmetto Opera *

Spoleto Festival USA Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of America's major performing arts festivals. It was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who sought to establish a counterpart to the Festival dei Due ...

*South Carolina Opera Company

Tennessee

Chattanooga Symphony and Opera The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, also known as CSO, is a combined symphony orchestra and opera company in Chattanooga, Tennessee. At the time of the merger in 1985, it was the only such combined organization in the United States. The CSO also of ...

* Knoxville Opera *Marble City Opera (

Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state' ...

) *Nashville Opera Association * Opera Memphis

Texas

*Abilene Opera Association *Amarillo Opera * Austin Opera *

Dallas Opera The Dallas Opera is an American opera company located in Dallas, Texas. The company performs at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, one venue of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. History The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civi ...

*El Paso Opera *

Fort Worth Opera Fort Worth Opera is the oldest continually-performing opera company in the state of Texas and among the oldest in the United States, according to the company. While originally presenting operas one at a time over a fall/winter season, it changed ...

* Houston Grand Opera *Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival *Lyric Opera of Waco *Opera East Texas *

Opera in the Heights Opera in the Heights is a non-profit, regional opera company, which is housed in the historic Lambert Hall at 1703 Heights Boulevard in Houston, Texas. History Opera in the Heights held its first Gala Opera Evening, a Fledermaus Party, in Lambert ...

* Opera Vista *Regal Opera *Opera Piccola of San Antonio

Utah

* Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre * Utah Symphony and Opera

Vermont

*Green Mountain Opera Festival * Opera Company of Middlebury *Opera Theatre of Weston *Vermont Opera Theater

Virginia

* Charlottesville Opera, previously known as Ash Lawn Opera *Aurora Opera (formerly the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia) *Bay View Music Festival *Capital City Opera *Opera in Williamsburg *Opera Music Theater International *Opera on the James * Opera Roanoke *River City Opera *

Virginia Opera Virginia Opera is an opera company based in the Commonwealth of Virginia which was first organized in 1974 by a group of Norfolk, Virginia community volunteers. The company presented its first productions in 1975, and in the following four decad ...

Wolf Trap Opera Company The Wolf Trap Opera Company (sometimes abbreviated WTOC) was founded in 1971 as part of the program of the Wolf Trap Foundation located near the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Fairfax County, Virginia. The company is a residen ...

Castleton Festival The Castleton Festival, launched in the summer of 2009, is a program of The Chateauville Foundation, established in 1997 by Lorin Maazel and Dietlinde Turban-Maazel. The Castleton Festival is located on Lorin Maazel's estate in Castleton, Virgini ...

Washington

*Bellevue Opera *Black Box Opera Theater *Lyric Opera Northwest] *Puget Sound Concert Opera *Puget Sound Opera *

Seattle Opera Seattle Opera is an opera company based in Seattle, Washington. It was founded in 1963 by Glynn Ross, who served as its first general director until 1983. The company's season runs from August through late May, comprising five or six operas of ...

*Skagit Opera *Spokane Coeur d'Alene Opera * Tacoma Opera *Vespertine Opera *Washington East Opera

Wisconsin

* Florentine Opera *

Madison Opera Madison Opera is a regional opera company based in Madison, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1961 as an extension of thMadison Symphony Orchestraand came to national prominence in 1993 with the commissioning and premiering of ''Shining Brow'', the o ...

*Fresco Opera Theatre *

Milwaukee Opera Theatre Milwaukee Opera Theatre, known colloquially as MOT, is a professional opera and musical theatre company that originated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely pop ...

* Opera for the Young *

Skylight Opera Theatre Skylight Music Theatre, known until January 2012 as Skylight Opera Theatre, is a professional light opera and musical theatre company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 1959, Skylight performs in the 358-seat Cabot Theatre at the Broadway ...

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