Operas set in England

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Aroldo () is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on and adapted from their earlier 1850 collaboration, Stiffelio. The opera premiered in Rimini's Teatro Nuovo Comunale on 16 August 1857.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Igor Stravinsky

1879 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan

romantic comic opera by Friedrich von Flotow

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

one-act comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

semi-opera by John Dryden and Henry Purcell

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, London, in 1953 during the celebrations of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Gloriana was the name given by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser to his character representing Queen Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene. It became the popular name given to Elizabeth I.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

chamber opera by Thomas Adès

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

thumb|upright=1.9|The ghost scene, depicted by H. M. Brock for the first [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company revival in 1921]]

comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

opera by Heinrich Marschner

opera by Isaac Albéniz

1886 opera by Emmanuel Chabrier

thumb|Cover of piano transcriptions, 1887 Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri () is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. In the opera, the fairy Iolanthe has been banished from fairyland because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by fairy law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Str

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opera by Otto Nicolai (1840)

heroic opera by Antonín Dvořák

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

chamber opera by Philip Glass

opera by Ethel Smyth

comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a kind of opéra comique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor

opera by George Benjamin

opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti

opera by Peter Maxwell Davies

Opera by Deems Taylor

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opera by Kevin Puts