Senarai opera di bawah adalah sebagai rujukan untuk opera-opera yang paling penting berdasarkan rujukan-rujukan di seksyen 14. Opera-opera yang disenaraikan meliputi keseluruhan genre opera termasuk opera-opera yang kerap dipersembahkan dari kurun ke-17 oleh Monteverdi, Cavalli, dan Purcell hingga ke lewat kurun ke 20 oleh Messiaen, Berio, Glass, Adams, Birtwistle, dan Judith Weir.
Untuk penjelasan mengenai sejarah opera, sila rujuk rencana opera.
Senarai opera dan penggubah dalam Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993) ISBN 0 859 67 894 6
Senarai opera dalam Warrack, John, dan Ewan West (1992). The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-869164-5.
Senarai opera dalam Who's Who in Opera: a guide to opera characters oleh Joyce Bourne (Oxford University Press, 1998) ISBN 0-19-210023-8
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Keseluruhan 93 opera di atas adalah : Adriana Lecouvreur, Aida, Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, Un Ballo in Maschera, The Barber of Seville, The Bartered Bride, Billy Budd, Bluebeard's Castle, La bohème, Boris Godunov, Capriccio, Carmen, Cavalleria rusticana, La cenerentola, La clemenza di Tito, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Così fan tutte, The Cunning Little Vixen, Dido and Aeneas, Don Carlos, Don Giovanni, Don Pasquale, Elektra, L'elisir d'amore, L'enfant et les sortilèges, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Eugene Onegin, Falstaff, Faust, Fidelio, The Flying Dutchman, La forza del destino, Der Freischütz, Giulio Cesare, The Golden Cockerel, Götterdämmerung, L'heure espagnole, Les Huguenots, Idomeneo, L'incoronazione di Poppea, L'Italiana in Algeri, Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová, Lakmé, The Marriage of Figaro, Il matrimonio segreto, Lohengrin, Louise, Lucia di Lammermoor, Macbeth, Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute, Manon, Médée, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Mignon, Moses und Aron, Nabucco, Norma, Orfeo, Orfeo ed Euridice, Otello, Pagliacci, Parsifal, Les pêcheurs de perles, Pelléas et Mélisande, Peter Grimes, Prince Igor, I puritani, The Queen of Spades, The Rake's Progress, Das Rheingold, Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Samson and Delilah, Semiramide, Siegfried, Simon Boccanegra, La sonnambula, Tannhauser, Tosca, La traviata, Tristan und Isolde, Il trovatore, Les Troyens, Turandot, The Turn of the Screw, Die Walküre, Werther, Wozzeck
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Orrey, Leslie and Milne, Rodney. Opera: A Concise History. World of Art, Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20217-6. Cite has empty unknown parameters: |origmonth=, |accessmonth=, |month=, |chapterurl=, |origdate=, dan |accessyear= (bantuan)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia Volume 24, 15th edition. "Opera" in "Musical forms and genres". ISBN 0-85229-434-4
Parker, Roger (ed) (1994). The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-816282-0. Cite has empty unknown parameters: |accessyear=, |origmonth=, |accessmonth=, |month=, |chapterurl=, |origdate=, dan |coauthors= (bantuan)CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
The Penguin Guide to Opera on Compact Discs ed. Greenfield, March and Layton (1993 edition) ISBN 0-14-046957-5.