Opera (disambiguation)

Opera is a Western performance art which combines music and drama.

Opera may also refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Art forms

• Chinese opera, an art form combining music and drama rooted in traditional Chinese culture
• Opéra comique, a French opera genre
• List of opera genres, opera's many different forms

In music

• Opera (band), an Italian pop-rock band active between 1975 and 1985

Albums

• Opera (Andrea Bocelli album)
• Opera (Tosca album), 1997
• Ópera, 1991 album by Todmobile

Songs

• "Opera" (song), by Çetin Alp & the Short Waves
• "Opera" (Super Junior song), 2012
• "The Opera", a song from the musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Opera companies and venues

• Opera Comique, London theatre (1870–1902), known for Gilbert and Sullivan operas
• Opéra-Comique, Paris opera company and opera house
• Opera house, a theatre building used for opera performances
• Opéra, a commonly used name for the Paris Opera

Magazines

• Opera (British magazine), a British publication covering opera
• Opera (Japanese magazine), a Japanese manga magazine

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Opera (film), a 1987 horror film by Dario Argento
• "Opera" (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), a 1989 live-action episode of the TV series
• "The Opera" (Seinfeld), a 1992 episode of the TV series

Businesses

• Opera (fabrica ecclesiae), non profit foundations for the maintenance of churches and religious buildings in Italy
• Opera, a Japanese adult video studio founded by Kaoru Toyoda

Places

• Opera (Budapest Metro), a station of the Millennium Underground line of the Budapest Metro
• Opéra (Paris Métro), a station of the Paris rapid transit system
• Opera, Lombardy, a municipality in the province of Milan, Italy

In science and technology

• Opera (web browser) and Opera Software, the Norwegian software company behind it
• OPERA experiment, a particle-physics experiment aiming to detect neutrino oscillations
• OPERA, a property-management system for hotels, developed and marketed by MICROS Systems, Inc.

Other uses

• MSC Opera, a cruise ship
• Opera cake, a type of French cake
• Operation Opera, a 1981 Israeli air strike
• Opera publica, construction or engineering projects carried out in ancient Rome

See also

• Horse opera, melodramatic, formulaic Western movie or TV series
• Opus (disambiguation)
• Rock opera, a rock album or performance in which the songs form a cohesive story
• Soap opera (disambiguation)
• Space Opera (disambiguation)