Name of Opera Festival |
Theatre or location |
Principal Venue |
Notes |
Arena di Verona Festival |
Arena di Verona |
Italy: Verona |
Roman arena |
Armel Opera Festival |
Szeged National Theatre |
Hungary: Szeged |
Combined with a singing competition |
Aspen Music Festival | Wheeler Opera House | United States: Aspen, Colorado | |
Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival |
Aspendos Arena |
Turkey:Aspendos |
Organised by Turkish State Opera and Ballet Directorate |
Amazonas Opera Festival |
Amazon Theatre |
Brazil:Manaus |
Organised by Amazonas State Government |
Bayreuth Baroque | Margrave's Opera House | Germany: Bayreuth | Baroque |
Bayreuth Festival | Bayreuth Festspielhaus | Germany: Bayreuth | Richard Wagner |
Bergamo Musica Festival[1] | Teatro Donizetti | Italy: Bergamo | Primarily operas by Gaetano Donizetti and Simon Mayr |
Bergen International Festival | Grieghallen | Norway: Bergen | |
Boston Early Music Festival | | United States: Boston, Massachusetts | Early music |
Brasilia Opera Festival | Teatro Nacional | Brazil: Brasilia, Distrito Federal | |
Bregenz Festival | Seebühne | Austria: Bregenz | Large-stage |
Budapest Spring Festival | Hungarian State Opera House | Hungary: Budapest | |
Buxton Festival | Buxton Opera House | United Kingdom: Buxton | |
Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte[2] |
Teatro Comunale Poliziano |
Italy: Montepulciano |
Workshops of opera, music, and theatre |
Caramoor International Music Festival | Venetian Theatre | United States: Katonah, New York | |
Castleton Festival | Festival Theatre | United States: Castleton, Virginia | |
Central City Opera | Central City Opera House | United States: Central City, Colorado | |
Chautauqua Opera | Norton Memorial Hall | United States: Chautauqua, New York | |
Cincinnati Opera Summer Festival | Cincinnati Music Hall | United States: Cincinnati, Ohio | |
Chorégies d'Orange | Théâtre Antique d'Orange | France: Orange | Roman theatre |
Dalhalla Opera | Dalhalla | Sweden: Rättvik | |
Des Moines Metro Opera | Blank Performing Arts Center, Simpson College | United States: Indianola, Iowa | Two "standard repertory" works, plus one from 20th century |
Diaghilev Festival[3] | Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre | Russia: Perm | International Arts Festival in Diaghilev's city. May |
Dorset Opera Festival | The Coade Hall | United Kingdom: Blandford Forum, Dorset | Country house opera: large-scale works |
Drottningholm | Drottningholm Palace Theatre | Sweden: Stockholm | Early works |
Eutin Festival[4] | Freilichtbühne | Germany: Eutin | |
Festspiel Baden-Baden | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | Germany: Baden-Baden | |
Festival d'Ambronay | Abbey of Ambronay | France: Ambronay | Baroque works |
Festival de Radio France et Montpellier | Le Corum | France: Montpellier | Rare works |
Festival dei Due Mondi | Teatro Caio Melisso | Italy: Spoleto | |
Festival della Valle d'Itria | Palazzo Ducale | Italy: Martina Franca | Rare works |
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence | Théâtre de l'Archevêché | France: Aix-en-Provence | |
Festival International d'Opéra Baroque de Beaune | Hospices de Beaune | France: Beaune | Baroque works |
Festival Opéra de Québec[5] | Grand Théâtre de Québec |
Canada: Québec | |
Festival Puccini | Teatro dei Quattromila | Italy: Torre del Lago | Giacomo Puccini, Large-stage |
Festival Verdi | Teatro Regio di Parma | Italy: Parma | Giuseppe Verdi's operas; held annually in October |
Fort Worth Opera | Bass Performance Hall | United States: Fort Worth, Texas | |
Garsington Opera | Wormsley Park | United Kingdom: Wycombe, Buckinghamshire | Country house opera |
George Enescu Festival | Romanian Athenaeum | Romania: Bucharest | |
Glimmerglass Opera | Alice Busch Opera Theater | United States: Cooperstown, New York | |
Glyndebourne Festival Opera | Glyndebourne Opera House | United Kingdom: Glyndebourne | Country house opera |
Grange Park Opera | The Grange | United Kingdom: Northington, Hampshire | Country house opera |
Green Mountain Opera Festival[6] | Barre Opera House | United States: Barre, Vermont | Mainstage and ensemble; Emerging Artists Program |
Iford Arts Festival | Iford Manor | United Kingdom: Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire | Country house opera |
Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik | Tiroler Landestheater | Austria: Innsbruck | Early works |
InterHarmony International Music Festival | Aldobrandesca Castle Rathaus | Italy: Arcidosso Germany: Sulzbach-Rosenberg | 2 locations |
International Punta Classic Opera Festival | Punta del Este | Uruguay: Punta del Este | Giacomo Puccini |
International Istanbul Opera Festival[7] |
various locations |
Turkey:Istanbul |
Organised by Turkish State Opera and Ballet Directorate |
Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg | Schlosstheater | Germany: Rheinsberg | young singers |
Läckö Castle Opera | Läckö Castle | Sweden: Lidköping | Inner courtyard of baroque castle |
Lismore Music Festival | Lismore Castle | Republic of Ireland: Lismore, County Waterford | |
Lucerne Festival | Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre | Switzerland: Lucerne | |
London Handel Festival | Various, inc. St George's, Hanover Square; Royal College of Music | United Kingdom: London | George Frideric Handel's operas, plus other baroque |
Longborough Festival Opera | Banks Fee House | United Kingdom: Longborough | Country house opera |
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | Teatro Communale and Teatro della Pergola | Italy: Florence | |
May Opera Evenings[8] | Macedonian Opera and Ballet | Macedonia: Skopje | |
Miskolc Opera Festival | Grand Theatre | Hungary: Miskolc | Bartok; other operas |
Munich Biennale | Gasteig | Germany: Munich | New opera and music-theatre |
Munich Opera Festival | Nationaltheater München | Germany: Munich | |
Nevill Holt Opera | Nevill Holt Hall | United Kingdom: Nevill Holt, Leicestershire | Country house opera |
Opera Barga Festival | Teatro dei Differenti | Italy: Barga | |
Opéra de Baugé | Les Capucins | France: Baugé | Country house opera |
Opera Holland Park | Holland Park Theatre | United Kingdom: London | |
Opera Memphis | Playhouse on the Square | United States: Memphis, Tennessee | |
Opera New Jersey[9] | McCarter Theatre | United States: Princeton | |
Opera Saratoga (formerly Lake George Opera) | Spa Little Theater | United States: Saratoga Springs, New York | |
Opera Theatre of Lucca | Teatro del Giglio | Italy: Lucca | |
Opera Theater of Pittsburgh SummerFest | Twentieth Century Club | United States: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | |
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | Loretto-Hilton Theater | United States: St. Louis, Missouri | |
Operadhoy[10] | Teatro de la Zarzuela | Spain: Madrid | Contemporary works |
Operosa[11] | Euxinograd Varna, Belgrade Youth Center, Ilija M. Kolarac Belgrade, Porto Montenegro Tivat | Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro | |
Pafos Aphrodite Festival Cyprus | Paphos Castle | Cyprus: Paphos | |
Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice[12] | | United States: Phoenicia, New York | |
Ravenna Festival | Teatro Communale Alighieri | Italy: Ravenna | |
Reakopana Opera Festival[13] | Greenside Theatre | South Africa: Johannesburg | |
Ravinia Festival | Ravinia Park | United States: Highland Park, Illinois | |
Richard Strauss Festival[14] | Kongresshaus | Germany: Garmisch Partenkirchen | Richard Strauss |
Rossini in Wildbad[15] | Kurtheater | Germany: Bad Wildbad | Gioachino Rossini |
Rossini Opera Festival | Teatro Rossini | Italy: Pesaro | Gioachino Rossini |
Salzburg Easter Festival | Großes Festspielhaus | Austria: Salzburg | |
Salzburg Summer Festival | Großes Festspielhaus | Austria: Salzburg | |
Salzburg Whitsun Festival | Großes Festspielhaus | Austria: Salzburg | |
Santa Fe Opera | The Crosby Theatre | United States: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Five productions: balance of popular operas plus those rarely performed and North American / World premieres |
Sobinov Opera Festival | Saratov Opera House | Russia: Saratov | |
Savonlinna Opera Festival | Olavinlinna Castle | Finland: Savonlinna | Mediaeval castle surrounded by a lake |
Schwetzingen Festival | Schlosstheater Schwetzingen | Germany: Schwetzingen | |
Sferisterio Opera Festival | Sferisterio di Macerata | Italy: Macerata | |
Spoleto Festival USA | Gaillard Municipal Auditorium / Memminger Auditorium | United States: Charleston, South Carolina | |
Stars of the White Nights Festival | Mariinsky Theatre | Russia: St Petersburg | |
Strasbourg Music Festival | various locations including Strasbourg Cathedral | France: Strasbourg | |
Stålboga Summer Opera | Music pavilion at Stålboga manor house | Sweden: Södermanland | Country house opera |
Sugar Creek Opera[16] | Minor Auditorium, Clifton Central High School | United States: Clifton, Illinois | |
Tanglewood Music Festival | Tanglewood Music Center | United States: Lenox, Massachusetts | |
Tashkent Spring International Opera Festival | Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater Of Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan: Tashkent | |
Theatro da Paz Opera Festival | Theatro da Paz | Brazil: Belém, Pará | |
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Summer Festival | Baths of Caracalla | Italy: Rome | |
Tyrolean Festival Erl | Passionsspielhaus | Austria: Erl | Richard Wagner |
Verbier Festival and Academy | Salle Médran | Switzerland: Verbier | |
Wagner Festival Wels[17] | Theater im Greif | Austria: Wels | Richard Wagner |
West Green House Opera | West Green House | United Kingdom: Hartley Wintney, Hampshire | Country house opera |
Wexford Festival Opera | Wexford Opera House | Ireland: Wexford | Rare works |
Wiener Festwochen | Theater an der Wien | Austria: Vienna | Contemporary works |
Wolf Trap Opera Company | Filene Center | United States: Vienna, Virginia | |
Woodhouse Opera[18][19] | Woodhouse Copse | United Kingdom: Holmbury St Mary, Surrey | Country house opera |