This is a list of notable opera houses listed by continent, then by country with the name of the opera house and city. The opera company is sometimes named for clarity.
Africa
Egypt
Alexandria Opera House, Alexandria Cairo Opera House, Cairo Damanhur Opera House, Damanhur Egyptian Royal Opera House, Cairo (burnt in 1971) Port Said Opera House, Port Said
Morocco
, Rabat Grand National Theatre of Rabat Grand Théâtre CasArts, Casablanca Gran Teatro Cervantes, Tangier
, El Jadida Royal Opera House of Marrakesh Théâtre Regent, Meknès
South Africa Artscape Opera House (Cape Town Opera Company), Cape Town Pretoria State Theatre
Tunisia Théâtre municipal de Tunis Tunisia's City of Culture
Asia
Bangladesh Hatirjheel Opera House, Dhaka
China
Century Theatre, Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts Poly Theatre, Beijing Zhengyici-xi-lou, Beijing Opera, Beijing Poly Theatre (People's Liberation Army Opera House), Beijing Guangzhou Beilei Theatre Guangzhou Drama Arts Center – Theatre No.13 Guangzhou Friendship Theatre Guangzhou Guanglian Hall Guangzhou Huanghuagang Theatre Guangzhou Jiangnan Theatre Guangzhou Military Auditorium Guangzhou Opera House Guangzhou Rainbow Theatre Guangzhou South Theatre Hangzhou Grand Theatre, Hangzhou Harbin Grand Theatre Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai Shanghai Opera Theater, Shanghai Oriental Opera Hall at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Shanghai Shanghai Yue Opera House, Shanghai Tianchan Theatre, Shanghai
Hong Kong
Ko Shan Theatre Theatre Ngau Chi Wan Civic Centre Theatre North District Town Hall Auditorium Sai Wab Ho Civic Centre Theatre Shatin Town Hall Auditorium Sheungwan Civic Centre Theatre Sunbeam Theatre Taipo Civic Centre Auditorium Tsuen Wan Town Hall Auditorium Tuen Mun Town Hall Auditorium
India Royal Opera House (Mumbai) Jamshed Bhabha Theatre (Mumbai) Opera House open theater (Bangalore)
Indonesia
Aula Simfonia Jakarta, Jakarta Jakarta Art Building, Jakarta Taman Ismail Marzuki Theater Hall, Jakarta Usmar Ismail Concert Hall, Jakarta Marabunta building Opera house, Semarang
Iran Vahdat Hall
Israel Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center
Japan
Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya Biwako Hall, Ōtsu, Shiga Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) NHK Hall, Tokyo Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo Yokosuka Arts Theatre, Yokosuka
Kazakhstan
ABAI Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Almaty (1934) Baiseitova Kazakh National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Astana (2000–2012, terminated) Palace of Peace and Reconciliation – Opera Hall, Astana (2006) Shymkent Regional Opera and Ballet Theatre, Shymkent (2007) State Opera and Ballet Theatre, "Astana opera", Astana (2012)
Kuwait
Kuwait Opera House, Kuwait City
Malaysia
Palace of Culture, Kuala Lumpur Permaisuri Zarith Sofiah Opera House, Johor Bahru
Mongolia National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar
Oman Royal Opera House, Muscat
Philippines Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila Manila Grand Opera House – historic theatre, now demolished
Singapore Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore Victoria Theatre & Concert Hall, Singapore
Syria Damascus Opera House
South Korea
Daegu Opera House, Daegu National Theater of Korea, Seoul Seoul Arts Center Opera House, Seoul Seongnam Arts Center Opera House, Seongnam
Taiwan National Taichung Theater National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts
Tajikistan Aini Theater of Opera and Ballet, Dushanbe
Thailand Thailand Cultural Centre, Bangkok
Turkey
Ankara Opera House, Ankara Atatürk Cultural Center, Taksim, Istanbul Antalya State Opera and Ballet, Antalya City Opera, Eskişehir İzmir State Opera and Ballet, Elhamra Palace, İzmir Leyla Gencer Sahnesi, Ankara Mersin Halkevi (Mersin State Opera and Ballet), Mersin Operet Sahnesi, Ankara Süreyya Opera House, Kadıköy, Istanbul Samsun State Opera and Ballet, İlkadım, Samsun
United Arab Emirates Dubai Opera, Dubai
Uzbekistan Navoi Theatre, Tashkent
Vietnam
Haiphong Opera House, Haiphong Hanoi Opera House, Hanoi Municipal Theatre, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon Opera House), Ho Chi Minh City
Europe
Albania Tirana Opera House, Tirana
Armenia
Yerevan Opera Theatre, Yerevan
Austria
Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz Stadtheater Baden, Baden bei Wien Graz Opera, Graz Musiktheater Linz, Linz Neue Oper Wien, Vienna Salzburg Festival, Salzburg Salzburger Landestheater, Salzburg Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, Vienna Theater an der Wien, Vienna; historic theatre associated with Mozart's time Theater Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt Volksoper Wien (Vienna People's Opera), Vienna Wiener Kammeroper (Vienna Chamber Opera), Vienna Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna State Opera), Vienna
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, Baku
Belarus National Opera and Ballet of Belarus, Minsk
Belgium
La Monnaie/De Munt (Royal Theatre of the Mint), Brussels Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp Vlaamse Opera, Ghent
Bosnia and Herzegovina National Theatre Opera and Ballet, Sarajevo
Bulgaria
Burgas Opera Theatre, Burgas National Opera and Ballet, Sofia Ruse State Opera, Ruse State Opera Plovdiv, Plovdiv State Opera Stara Zagora, Stara Zagora Varna Opera Theatre, Varna
Croatia
Croatian National Theatre, Osijek Ivan Zajc Croatian National Theatre, Rijeka Croatian National Theatre, Split Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Zagreb Croatian National Theatre, Zadar
Czech Republic
National Theatre (Národní divadlo), Prague The State Opera (Státní opera), Prague Estates Theatre (Stavovské divadlo), Prague
Denmark
The Copenhagen Opera House (Operaen), Copenhagen Den Jyske Opera, Aarhus Det Kongelige Teater (Royal Danish Theatre), Copenhagen Funen Opera, Odense Opera Hedeland, Hedehusene
Estonia Estonian National Opera (Rahvusooper Estonia), Tallinn Vanemuine, Tartu
Finland
Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Helsinki
France
Grand Théâtre, Angers Opéra-théâtre d'Avignon, Avignon Opéra Théâtre de Besançon, Besançon Grand Théâtre, Bordeaux Auditorium de Dijon, Dijon (Opéra de Dijon) Grand Théâtre, Dijon (Opéra de Dijon) Opéra de Lille, Lille Opéra Théâtre de Limoges, Limoges Nouvel Opéra, Lyon Opéra de Marseille, Marseille Opéra-Théâtre de Metz, Metz Opéra et Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy Théâtre Graslin, Nantes Opéra de Nice, Nice Opéra Bastille, Paris Opéra Comique, Paris Palais Garnier, Paris Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris Reims Opera House, Reims Opéra de Rennes, Rennes Opéra de Rouen, Rouen Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg Opéra de Toulon, Toulon Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse Opéra de Tours, Tours Royal Opera of Versailles, Versailles
Germany
Aalto Theatre, Essen Alte Oper (former opera house), Frankfurt Anhaltisches Theater, Dessau Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre), Bayreuth Cologne Opera, Cologne Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich Deutsche Oper am Rhein (German Opera of the Rhine), Düsseldorf Deutsche Oper Berlin (Berlin German Opera), Berlin Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Weimar Dortmund Opera, Dortmund Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden Festival Theatre), Baden-Baden Halle Opera House, Halle Hamburgische Staatsoper (Hamburg State Opera), Hamburg Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden Opernhaus Kiel, Kiel Komische Oper Berlin, Berlin Kroll Opera House, Berlin (destroyed in 1943) Landestheater Altenburg Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth Mecklenburg State Theatre, Schwerin Das Meininger Theater, Meiningen Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen National Theatre Munich (Bavarian State Opera), Munich Nationaltheater Mannheim, Mannheim Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburg (Lower Saxony) Oper am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera), Frankfurt Oper Leipzig (Leipzig Opera), Leipzig Opernhaus am Taschenberg, Dresden (changed to church in 1708, demolished in 1888) Opernhaus am Zwinger, Dresden (1719, destroyed 1849) Opernhaus Dortmund, Dortmund Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Opernhaus Wuppertal, Wuppertal Prinzregententheater, Munich Saarländisches Staatstheater, Saarbrücken Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, Schwetzingen Semperoper (Saxon State Opera), Dresden Staatsoper Hannover, Hanover Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Berlin Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich Staatstheater Braunschweig, Braunschweig Staatstheater Darmstadt, Darmstadt Staatstheater Kassel, Kassel Staatstheater Mainz, Mainz Staatstheater Nürnberg, Nuremberg Staatstheater Stuttgart, Stuttgart Stadttheater Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven Stadttheater Minden, Minden Theater Bonn, Bonn Theater Bremen, Bremen Theater Chemnitz, Chemnitz Theater Duisburg, Duisburg Theater Erfurt, Erfurt Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg Theater Lübeck, Lübeck Theater Münster, Münster Theater Trier, Trier Theater Ulm, Ulm
Greece
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Greek National Opera, Athens Athens Concert Hall, Athens Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Thessaloniki Apollon Theatre (Patras), Patras Apollon Theater, Syros, Ermoupoli
Georgia
Georgian National Opera Theater, Tbilisi Kutaisi State Opera, Kutaisi
Hungary
Budapest Operetta Theatre (Budapesti Operettszínház), Budapest Erkel Theatre (Erkel Színház), Budapest Hungarian State Opera House (Magyar Állami Operaház), Budapest
Iceland The Icelandic Opera (Íslenska Óperan), Reykjavík Icelandic National Opera, Reykjavík
Ireland
Cork Opera House, Cork Theatre Royal, Wexford Wexford Opera House
Italy
Arena di Verona, Verona Opera di Firenze, Florence Sferisterio, Macerata Teatro Alessandro Bonci, Cesena Teatro Alfieri, Asti Teatro Alfieri, Florence Teatro Alfieri, Turin Teatro alla Scala, Milan Teatro Apollo, Lecce Teatro Biondo, Palermo Teatro Argentina, Rome Teatro Augusteo, Naples Teatro Bellini, Naples Teatro Capranica, Rome Teatro Carignano, Turin Teatro Vittorio Emanuele II, Messina Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa Teatro Civico, Sassari Teatro Civico, Tortona Teatro Garibaldi, Enna Teatro Coccia, Novara Teatro Luigi Pirandello, Agrigento Teatro Comunale, Alessandria Teatro Comunale, Bologna Teatro Comunale, Ferrara Teatro Comunale, Florence, cast off in 2014 (and later dismantled)and substituted by the newly built Teatro Comunale, Modena Teatro Comunale Alighieri, Ravenna Teatro Comunale Carlo Gesualdo, Avellino Teatro Re Grillo, Licata Teatro Communale G. B. Pergolesi, Jesi Teatro Comunale Gabriello Chiabrera, Savona Teatro Communale Ponchielli, Cremona Teatro Bellini, Palermo Teatro Finocchiaro, Palermo Teatro Comunale Umberto Giordano, Foggia Teatro Comunale Margherita, Racalmuto Teatro Comunale Vittorio Emanuele, Benevento Teatro Curci, Barletta Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Rome Teatro del Giglio, Lucca Teatro Regina Margherita, Caltanissetta Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan Teatro degli Industri, Grosseto Teatro comunale Vittoria Colonna, Vittoria Teatro della Gran Guardia, Livorno Teatro della Pergola, Florence Teatro delle Muse, Ancona Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo Teatro La Fenice, Venice Teatro Garibaldi, Piazza Armerina Teatro Lirico, Milan Teatro Lirico, Cagliari Teatro Filarmonico, Verona Teatro Selinus, Castelvetrano Teatro Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria Teatro Fraschini, Pavia Teatro Garibaldi, Modica Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto Teatro Grande, Brescia Teatro Comunale, Noto Teatro Lirico, Milan Teatro Lirico, Cagliari Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste Teatro Malibran, Venice