This inclusive list of North American opera companies contains American and Canadian professional opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 companies and opera related organizations with entries in the Wikipedia. For opera companies in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 see List of Latin American and South American opera companies. For opera companies from other countries, see List of important opera companies.

Alberta

Name of opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...  company	Principal theatre	Principal location
Calgary Opera Calgary Opera The Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus...		Calgary Calgary Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
Edmonton Opera Edmonton Opera The Edmonton Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Edmonton, Alberta, it performs in the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. The opera was founded in 1963 as the Edmonton Professional Opera Association. The name was latter shortened to the current name in 1966. It was born out of its...		Edmonton Edmonton Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...

British Columbia

Name of opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...  company	Principal theatre	Principal location
Modern Baroque Opera		Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
Opera Pro Cantanti		Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
Vancouver Opera Vancouver Opera Vancouver Opera is the second largest performing arts organization in British Columbia and the largest opera company in western Canada.It performs in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre accompanied currently by the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, one of two specialized opera orchestras in Canada...		Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
City Opera of Vancouver City Opera of Vancouver City Opera of Vancouver is a professional chamber opera company founded in 2005. It was the lead company in efforts to restore Vancouver's Pantages Theatre, built by Alexander Pantages in 1907. The 650 seat building was considered to be the oldest remaining vaudeville theatre in Canada...		Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
Pacific Opera Victoria Pacific Opera Victoria Pacific Opera Victoria is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It performs four full productions per season at Victoria's Royal Theatre accompanied by members of the Victoria Symphony...		Victoria Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...
Vancouver Concert Opera Co-Operative ( VanCOCO )		Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

Manitoba

Name of opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...  company	Principal theatre	Principal location
Manitoba Opera Manitoba Opera Manitoba Opera is an opera company in Winnipeg, Manitoba that was founded in 1969. Its first production was a concert of Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore in 1972. Manitoba Opera is one of several western Canadian opera companies that flourished under the inspired leadership of Irving Guttman,...		Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...

Ontario

Name of opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...  company	Principal theatre	Principal location
Opera Ontario		Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
Opera Mississauga		Mississauga
Opera Lyra Ottawa Opera Lyra Ottawa Opera Lyra Ottawa is a professional opera company founded in 1984 by soprano Diana Gilchrist after the demise of the National Arts Centre's summer festival opera productions. The company's current leadership team is General Director, Elizabeth Howarth and Artistic Director Tyrone Paterson...		Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
Canadian Opera Company Canadian Opera Company The Canadian Opera Company is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest opera company in Canada and the third largest producer of opera in North America. The COC performs in its own opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.-History:For 40 years until...		Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
Centuries Opera Association		Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
Opera Atelier Opera atelier Opéra Atelier, a Canadian Baroque opera company was founded in 1985 in Toronto by husband and wife duo Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg. The company mounts operas from the 17th and 18th centuries which are presented at the Elgin Theatre....		Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
Opera in Concert		Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

Quebec

Name of opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...  company	Principal theatre	Principal location
Opéra de Montréal Opéra de Montréal Opéra de Montréal is an opera company in Montreal. It performs at the Place des Arts theatre complex in downtown Montreal, in the borough of Ville-Marie. It was founded in 1980...		Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
L'Opéra de Québec		Quebec City Quebec City Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

Saskatchewan

Name of opera Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...  company	Principal theatre	Principal location
Saskatoon Opera		Saskatoon Saskatoon Saskatoon is a city in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. Residents of the city of Saskatoon are called Saskatonians. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344....

Opera companies in the United States of America

California

• Berkley Opera
• California Opera Association
• Center Stage Opera
• Festival Opera
• Gallo Center for the Arts
  Gallo Center for the Arts
  Gallo Center for the Arts is a performing arts center located in downtown Modesto, California. Opened in September of 2007, the arts center hosts dances, performers, and plays. It is located on 1000 I Street....
  
  
• Golden Gate Opera
• Livermore Valley Opera
• Long Beach 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 established professional opera company in the L.A. area...
  
  
• Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera
• Los Angeles Opera
  Los Angeles Opera
  The Los Angeles Opera is an opera company in Los Angeles, California. It is the fourth largest opera company in the United States. The company's home base is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, part of the Los Angeles Music Center.-Current leadership:...
  
  
• Lyric Opera of Los Angeles
  Lyric Opera of Los Angeles
  Lyric Opera of Los Angeles is a small non-profit opera company in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 2002 by Laura Sage and features lesser known opera works that have rarely been made into staged productions. Lyric Opera of Los Angeles has since put on several premiere productions...
  
  
• Lyric Opera San Diego
  Lyric opera san diego
  Lyric Opera San Diego is a San Diego, California based theatre company specialising in Comic opera, Operetta, and Musical theatre. The company was founded in 1979, primarily for the purpose of performing Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. At the time it was known as the San Diego Gilbert and Sullivan...
  
  
• Martinez Opera
• Music Academy of the West
  Music Academy of the West
  The Music Academy of the West is a music conservatory located in Montecito, California near Santa Barbara, California. Every year, it hosts a summer music festival for the community highlighted by concerts and workshops directed by famous composers, conductors, and artists.A yearly maximum of 135...
  
  
• Musical Traditions
• North Bay Opera
• Opera Pacific
  Opera Pacific
  Opera Pacific was an opera company located in the Orange County, California, United States city of Santa Ana. It operated for 22 seasons before closing in 2008 after several seasons of deepening financial difficulties.-History:...
  
   (closed November 2008)
• Opera Pasadena
• Opera Royale
• Opera San Jose
  Opera San Jose
  Opera San José is the professional opera company in San Jose, California, United States, founded in 1984 by Irene Dalis. In 1988, it formed a resident company of principal artists, for which it has purchased fourteen apartment units to provide rent-free accommodation...
  
  
• Opera Santa Barbara
• Pacific Repertory Opera
• Sacramento Opera
• San Diego Opera Association
• San Francisco Lyric Opera
• San Francisco Opera
  San Francisco Opera
  San Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
  
  
• Townsend Opera Players
• Tyrolean Opera Program
• West Bay Opera Association

Colorado

• Aspen Music Festival
• Central City Opera
  Central City Opera
  Central City Opera is the fifth-oldest opera company in the United States, founded in 1932. Each festival is presented in the 550-seat historic Central City Opera House built in 1878 in the gold mining era town of Central City, Colorado. Pelham G...
  
  
• Loveland Opera Theatre
  Loveland Opera Theatre
  The Loveland Opera Theatre is an opera company located in Loveland, Colorado.-External links and sources:*...
  
  
• Opera Colorado
  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...
  
  
• Opera Fort Collins
• Opera Theatre of the Rockies
• Rocky Mountain Opera

Connecticut

• Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra
  Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra
  The Connecticut Grand Opera and Orchestra is a non-profit, professional opera company and orchestra based in Stamford, Connecticut in the United States...
  
  
• Connecticut Opera
  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 directorship of Frank Pandolfi and was the sixth oldest...
  
   (closed in Feb 2009)
• Hillhouse Opera Company
  Hillhouse Opera Company
  Hillhouse Opera Company is a U.S. non-profit opera company that performs in the New Haven area of Connecticut. Founded in 2008 and based in New Haven, Connecticut, Hillhouse Opera Company has offered productions of Alcina , Don Giovanni, and in 2010 were working on a production of Faust...
  
  
• Salt Marsh Opera
  Salt Marsh Opera
  Salt Marsh Opera is a U.S. non-profit opera company that performs across southern Connecticut and Rhode Island. Founded in 2000 and based in Stonington, Connecticut, Salt Marsh Opera has offered productions of Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Cosi fan tutte, The Mikado, La bohème, La traviata, Il barbiere...
  
  

District of Columbia

• Opera Lafayette
  Opera Lafayette
  Opera Lafayette is an is an opera company based in Washington, D.C. that produces French operas from the 17th and 18th Centuries. It was founded in 1995 by Ryan Brown and performs at the Kennedy Center, among other venues....
  
  
• Summer Opera Theatre Company (closed January 2010)
• Washington Concert Opera
• Washington National Opera
  Washington National Opera
  The Washington National Opera is an opera company in Washington, D.C., USA. Formerly the Opera Society of Washington and the Washington Opera, the company received Congressional designation as the National Opera Company in 2000. Performances are now given in the Opera House of the John F...
  
  

Florida

• Central Florida Lyric Opera
• Florida Grand Opera
  Florida Grand Opera
  Florida Grand Opera is an American opera company based in Miami, Florida. FGO was created in 1994 from the consolidation of two opera companies in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale region:...
  
  
• Hispanic-American Lyric Theatre
• Miami Lyric Opera
• New Century Opera
• Opera Jacksonville
• Opera Naples
• Opera Tampa
  Opera Tampa
  Opera Tampa is the resident opera company of the Straz Center for the Performing Arts .Now in its 15th season, Opera Tampa produces and presents grand opera...
  
  
• Opera Theater of Lakeland
• Orlando Opera
  Orlando Opera
  The Orlando Opera was Orlando, Florida's professional opera company. Based in the Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando, the Orlando Opera performed multiple times a year in the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre and other venues in the central Florida region....
  
   (closed March 2009)
• Palm Beach Opera
  Palm Beach Opera
  Palm Beach Opera, a professional opera company in West Palm Beach, Florida resident at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, was founded in 1961 as "Civic Opera of the Palm Beaches." Over its history, the company has presented a season of fully staged operas ranging from a single production...
  
  
• Pensacola Opera
• Sarasota Opera
  Sarasota Opera
  Sarasota Opera is a professional opera company in Sarasota, Florida, USA, which owns and performs in the now-renovated 1,119-seat Sarasota Opera House. The 2011-2012 season is currently featuring Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in the fall...
  
  

Illinois

• Bowen Park Opera Company
• Chicago Opera Theater
  Chicago Opera Theater
  The Chicago Opera Theater is an opera company that was founded as the Chicago Opera Studio in 1974 by Alan Stone to give vocal students performance experience, although it has grown into a professional opera company...
  
  
• da Corneto Opera
• DuPage Opera Theatre
  DuPage Opera Theatre
  The DuPage Opera Theatre is one of three professional opera companies located in the Chicago area, along with Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Opera Theater...
  
  
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
  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 1952, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicolà Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma...
  
  
• Muddy River Opera Company
  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 professional operatic performances and educational...
  
  
• Opera Illinois

Louisiana

• Jefferson Performing Arts Society
• New Orleans Opera Association
• Opera Louisiane
• Shreveport Opera
  Shreveport Opera
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Maryland

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

Massachusetts

• Acting Singers Project
• Berkshire Opera Company
  Berkshire Opera Company
  The Berkshire Opera Company was an American opera company located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1985 by Rex Hearn and closed in 2009...
  
   (closed 2009)
• Boston Metro Opera
  Boston Metro Opera
  Boston Metro Opera is an American opera company based in Boston, Massachusetts.- History :Boston Metro Opera was founded in 2008, and already, it has established a reputation for being "...a robust new company with a penchant for trendsetting productions" and New England's premier 'new opera' opera...
  
  
• Boston Lyric Opera
  Boston Lyric Opera
  Boston Lyric Opera is an American opera company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1976.Each season, BLO produces three mainstage productions at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre in Boston and a fully staged, one-hour English language version of a popular opera for school...
  
  
• Cape Cod Opera
• Commonwealth Opera
• Opera Boston
  Opera Boston
  Opera Boston is an opera company in Boston, Massachusetts. It specializes in innovative repertoire and rarely heard works, along with opera education and outreach programs designed to bring opera education to children, in schools and after-school programs throughout the Boston area.Its home base is...
  
  
• Opera del West
• Longwood Opera
• MestroWest Opera

Missouri

• Kansas City Metro Opera
• Lyric Opera of Kansas City
• Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
  Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
  Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is a 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 the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, which is divided into two...
  
  
• Springfield Regional Opera
• Union Avenue Opera
  Union Avenue Opera Theatre
  Union Avenue Opera is an opera company based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was founded in 1994 by Scott Schoonover, the music director of Union Avenue Christian Church, which serves as the company's venue in St...
  
  

New Hampshire

• Granite State Opera (closed April 2009)
• Lyric Opera Company of Concord
• Opera North
  Opera North (U.S.A.)
  Opera North is an opera company based in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and is the region's oldest professional opera company. The company presents an annual summer season of two fully staged operas. Opera North productions are staged at the Lebanon Opera House...
  
  

New Jersey

• Boheme Opera New Jersey
• Garden State Philharmonic
• The Little Opera Company of New Jersey
• New Jersey Concert Opera
• New Jersey Opera Theater

New York

• Amato Opera
  Amato Opera
  The Amato Opera was an opera company located in the East Village neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. The company was produced by the husband and wife team of Anthony and Sally Amato and presented opera on a small scale with a reduced orchestra at low prices...
  
   (closed May 2009)
• American Lyric Theater
  American Lyric Theater
  American Lyric Theater an opera company based in New York City and specialising in the development of new works. It was founded by Lawrence Edelson in 2005.- Programs :...
  
  
• American Opera Projects
  American Opera Projects
  American Opera Projects is a professional opera company based in New York City, NY and is a member of OPERA America, the Fort Greene Association, and the Alliance of Resident Theatres/ New York]] . The company's primary mission is to develop and present new works...
  
  
• Amore Opera
• Bronx Opera Company, The
• Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera
• Cantiamo Opera Theater
• Capitol Opera Albany-Saratoga
• Center for Contemporary Opera
  Center for Contemporary Opera
  The Center for Contemporary Opera 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 operas written after the second World War...
  
  
• Chautauqua Opera
  Chautauqua Opera
  The Chautauqua Opera is the resident summer opera company of the Chautauqua Institution. It is the oldest continuously active summer opera company in the U.S, having been founded in 1929, and it has produced several operas during the Institution's nine-week summer season every year since...
  
  
• Chelsea Opera
  Chelsea Opera
  -History:Chelsea Opera was founded in April, 2004 by Leonarda Priore and Lynne Hayden-Findlay, both singers, who sought to create more performance opportunities within the tri-state area. Musical direction since inception has been provided by Conductor Carmine Aufiero...
  
  
• Dicapo Opera
  Dicapo Opera
  Dicapo Opera Theatre was co-founded in 1981 by General Director Michael Capasso and Artistic Director Diane Martindale. Aside from the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera, it is the only professional non-profit opera company in New York City presenting an annual season of opera productions,...
  
  
• Empire Opera
• Encompass New Opera Theatre
  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 was founded in 1975 by Nancy Rhodes who remains the...
  
  
• Family Opera Initiative
  Family opera initiative
  Family Opera Initiative is an American opera company based in New York City that commissions, develops, and premieres original works for cross-generational audiences. It was founded in 1995 by Grethe Barrett Holby, originally as part of American Opera Projects...
  
  
• Glimmerglass Opera
  Glimmerglass Opera
  Glimmerglass Festival is an opera company which was founded in 1975 by Peter Macris and presents an annual season of operas at the Alice Busch Opera Theater on Otsego Lake eight miles north of Cooperstown, New York, United States.The summer-only season usually consists of four operas performed in...
  
  
• Gotham Chamber Opera
  Gotham Chamber Opera
  Gotham Chamber Opera is a professional opera company located in New York City, New York, and is a member of Opera America. The company specializes in producing rarely performed chamber operas from the Baroque era to the present. The company was founded in 2000 under the name of the Henry Street...
  
  
• Hudson Lyric Opera
• Hudson Opera Theatre
• La Gran Scena Opera Company
• Lake George Opera, now Opera Saratoga
  Opera Saratoga
  Opera Saratoga is a professional opera company based in Saratoga Springs, New York. It performs an annual summer festival of three fully staged operas and operettas....
  
  
• Liederkranz Opera Theater
• Little Opera Theatre of New York
• Long Island Opera Company, The
• Mercury Opera Rochester
• Metropolitan Opera, The
  Metropolitan Opera
  The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
  
  
• Millennial Arts Productions
• New Rochelle Opera
• New York City Opera
  New York City Opera
  The New York City Opera is an American opera company located in New York City.The company, called "the people's opera" by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was founded in 1943 with the aim of making opera financially accessible to a wide audience, producing an innovative choice of repertory, and...
  
  
• New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players
  New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players
  New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players is a professional repertory theatre company, based in New York City that has specialized in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan for over 35 years...
  
  
• New York Grand Opera Company
• New York Opera Forum
• New York Opera Project
• Opera Company of Brooklyn
  Opera Company of Brooklyn
  The Opera Company of Brooklyn is an opera company founded in 2000 which performs in a variety of venues in New York City. It is a non-profit organization operating under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code.-The company:...
  
  
• Opera Ebony
  Opera Ebony
  Opera Ebony is an African-American opera company.Performances of Mozart in Harlem to African-American Heritage concerts in Iceland. Gershwin in Moscow to Duke Ellington in the Caribbean. Benjamin Matthews, Sister Mary Elise S.B.S. and Wayne Sanders founded Opera Ebony in 1973...
  
  
• Opera Manhattan
• Opera on Tap
• Opera Orchestra of New York
  Opera Orchestra of New York
  The Opera Orchestra of New York specializes in the performance of opera in concert form. It is particularly known for its work in presenting rarely performed repertory...
  
  
• Opera Saratoga
  Opera Saratoga
  Opera Saratoga is a professional opera company based in Saratoga Springs, New York. It performs an annual summer festival of three fully staged operas and operettas....
  
  
• Oswego Opera Theatre
• PALA Opera Association
• Regina Opera Company
• Riverside Opera Ensemble
• Seagle Music Colony
• Syracuse Opera
• Taconic Opera
• Teatro Grattacielo
  Teatro Grattacielo
  Teatro Grattacielo is a professional opera company based in New York City specializing in concert performances of rarely heard verismo operas. The company's past performances have included the North American premieres of Mascagni's Il piccolo Marat and Riccardo Zandonai's I cavalieri di Ekebù and...
  
  
• Tri-Cities Opera Company
  Tri-Cities Opera Company
  The Tri-Cities Opera Company , founded in 1949 by Peyton Hibbitt and Carmen Savoca in Binghamton, NY, annually stages three full-scale operas per season during the fall and winter months...
  
  
• Village Light Opera Company

North Carolina

• Asheville Lyric Opera
  Asheville Lyric Opera
  Asheville Lyric Opera is a professional, non-profit opera company located in Asheville, North Carolina. Now approaching their 13th Season, the company was founded in 1999 with a mission to enhance the arts and cultural life of Western North Carolina. Founder, David Craig Starkey, currently serves...
  
  
• Capital Opera Raleigh
• Greensboro Opera Company
• Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center
• Long Leaf Opera
• Opera Carolina
  Opera Carolina
  Opera Carolina is a professional opera company located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company reaches over 75,000 people from North Carolina and South Carolina....
  
  
• The Opera Company of North Carolina
• Piedmont Opera Theatre

Ohio

• Cincinnati Opera
  Cincinnati Opera
  Cincinnati Opera is an American opera company based in Cincinnati, Ohio and the second oldest opera company in the United States .-History:...
  
  
• Dayton Opera Association
• Opera Cleveland
• Opera Columbus
• Sorg Opera
• Toledo Opera
  Toledo Opera
  The Toledo Opera is an American opera company based in Toledo, Ohio. Founded in 1959, the company's first General Director was Lester Freedman with conductor Joseph Hawthorne of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra serving as Music Director...
  
  

Pennsylvania

• Amici Opera
• Center City Opera Theater
  Center City Opera Theater
  Center City Opera Theater is an opera company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1999, CCOT is the only professional opera company in the United States whose mission is the creation of new opera works, guiding works from inception to stage through a series of workshops...
  
  
• ConcertOPERA Philadelphia
• Microscopic Opera Company
• Opera Company of Philadelphia
  Opera Company of Philadelphia
  The Opera Company of Philadelphia is an American opera company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the city's only company producing grand opera. The organization produces four fully staged opera productions annually, encompassing works from the seventeenth through the 21st century...
  
  
• Opera North
• Opera Theater of Pittsburgh
  Opera Theater of Pittsburgh
  Opera Theater of Pittsburgh is an American opera company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Cultural District. It is one of two opera companies in the city, the other being Pittsburgh Opera...
  
  
• Pittsburgh Opera
  Pittsburgh Opera
  Pittsburgh Opera is an American opera company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is one of two opera companies in the city, the other being Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Opera gives performances in several venues, primarily at the Benedum Center, with other performances at the...
  
  
• Undercroft Opera

Tennessee

• Chattanooga Symphony and Opera
  Chattanooga Symphony and Opera
  The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera is a combined symphony orchestra and opera company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the only such combined organization in the United States.-Chattanooga Symphony:...
  
  
• Knoxville Opera Company
• Nashville Opera Association
  Nashville Opera Association
  The Nashville Opera Association is a professional opera company in Nashville, Tennessee and is a member of OPERA America. The company currently offers three fully staged opera productions and the On Tour educational outreach program during an annual season which runs from October through April...
  
  
• Opera Memphis
  Opera Memphis
  Opera Memphis is a non-profit arts organization in Memphis, Tennessee. It was established in 1956 in conjunction with the founding of WKNO-FM, the local public radio affiliate....
  
  

Texas

• Abilene Opera Association
• Amarillo Opera
• Austin Lyric Opera
  Austin Lyric Opera
  Austin Lyric Opera, founded in 1986, is an internationally known opera company based in Austin, Texas.It also operates the Armstrong Community Music School....
  
  
• Dallas Opera
  Dallas Opera
  The Dallas Opera is an opera company located in Dallas, Texas . The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civic Opera by Laurence Kelly and Nicolà Rescigno, both of whom had been active with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the first as administrator, the second as artistic director.-The company's...
  
  
• El Paso Opera
• Fort Worth Opera Association
  Fort Worth Opera
  According to the company, Fort Worth Opera is the oldest, continually performing opera company in the state of Texas and among the oldest in the United States. While originally presenting operas one at a time over a fall/winter season, it changed to a "festival" format in 2007...
  
  
• Houston Grand Opera
  Houston Grand Opera
  Houston Grand Opera Houston Grand Opera was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit, Edward Bing and Charles Cockrell...
  
  
• Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival
• Lyric Opera of Waco
• Opera East Texas
• Opera in the Heights
  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 Vista
• Regal Opera
• San Antonio Opera

Vermont

• Green Mountain Opera Festival
• Opera Theatre of Weston
• Vermont Opera Theater

Virginia

• Ash Lawn Opera Festival
• Aurora Opera, formerly the Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia
• Bay View Music Festival
• Capital City Opera
• Opera Music Theater International
• Opera on the James
• Opera Roanoke
  Opera Roanoke
  Opera Roanoke is professional opera company in Southwest Virginia presenting fully staged productions and a variety of smaller-scale presentations each year...
  
  
• Operafestival di Roma
• Virginia Opera
  Virginia Opera
  Virginia Opera is an opera company based in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Organized in 1974 by a group of Norfolk, Virginia community volunteers, Virginia Opera presented its first productions in 1975 and in the intervening four decades has become known and respected nationwide for the...
  
  
• Wolf Trap Opera Company
  Wolf Trap Opera Company
  The Wolf Trap Opera Company produces a summer opera festival as part of the program of the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia....
  
  

Washington

• Bellevue Opera
• Black Box Opera Theater
• Seattle Opera
  Seattle Opera
  The Seattle Opera is an opera company located in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1963 by Glynn Ross, who served as the company's first general director through 1983, Seattle Opera's season runs from August to late May, with five or six operas offered and with eight to ten performances each, often...
  
  
• Skagit Opera
• Spokane Coeur d'Alene Opera
• Tacoma Opera
  Tacoma Opera
  Tacoma Opera is a professional opera company located in Tacoma, WA and is a member of OPERA America. The company presents two fully staged operas and one young artists' showcase a year. In 2009-10 the company presented Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro...
  
  
• Washington East Opera

Wisconsin

• Florentine Opera Company
• Madison Opera
  Madison Opera
  Madison Opera is a regional opera company based in Madison, Wisconsin. It was founded in 1961 as an extension of the and came to national prominence with the commissioning and premiering of Shining Brow, the opera about Frank Lloyd Wright by composer Daron Hagen and librettist Paul Muldoon. The...
  
  
• Milwaukee Opera Theatre
• Opera for the Young
  Opera for the Young
  Opera for the Young is a professional, touring opera company based in Madison, WI. Founded in 1970, it brings professional opera programs to elementary schools throughout the Midwest during its spring and fall tours...
  
  
• Skylight Opera Theatre
  Skylight opera theatre
  The Skylight Opera Theatre is a professional light opera company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded in 1959, Skylight performs in the 358-seat Cabot Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center in Milwaukee...