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Genre
opera
Parent Genre: classical

Opera is a classical music genre that combines singing, acting, and orchestral music to tell a dramatic story. It features powerful and emotive vocals, often in foreign languages, and is known for its elaborate costumes and staging. Opera is typically performed in large theaters and requires highly trained singers and musicians. It has produced some of the most iconic and celebrated performances in music history.


Top artists of opera genre

Luciano Pavarotti
Plácido Domingo
Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala, Milano
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Maria Callas
Gaetano Donizetti
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
René Jacobs
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Montserrat Caballé
Renée Fleming
Tullio Serafin
Cecilia Bartoli
Vincenzo Bellini
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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opera music timeline

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List of opera artists

Here is a list of opera artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the opera genre. You can find out what opera genre sounds like where you can preview artists or sort them the way you want, just click the headers to sort.

#namePopularity instrumentalnessdanceabilityenergyacousticnessHappinesstempofollowers
1
Luciano Pavarotti
62 6 25 26 96 24 97 862460
2
Plácido Domingo
53 10 32 38 82 25 95 181668
3
Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala, Milano
50 0 0 0 0 0 0 13695
4
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
50 0 0 0 0 0 0 21414
5
Maria Callas
49 2 25 14 98 13 94 290579
6
Gaetano Donizetti
48 0 0 0 0 0 0 70876
7
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
48 0 0 0 0 0 0 4651
8
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
48 0 0 0 0 0 0 2109
9
René Jacobs
48 0 0 0 0 0 0 9480
10
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
48 0 0 0 0 0 0 2211
11
Montserrat Caballé
47 19 21 14 97 5 85 82825
12
Renée Fleming
47 0 0 0 0 0 0 54862
13
Tullio Serafin
46 0 0 0 0 0 0 5076
14
Cecilia Bartoli
46 0 0 0 0 0 0 85459
15
Vincenzo Bellini
45 0 0 0 0 0 0 45192
16
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
45 0 0 0 0 0 0 14831
17
José Carreras
45 4 25 19 98 17 111 144627
18
John Alldis Choir
45 0 0 0 0 0 0 1041
19
Orchestra Del Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma
45 0 0 0 0 0 0 3438
20
Philippe Jaroussky
44 0 30 7 97 16 81 63078
21
Dame Joan Sutherland
44 47 39 24 94 50 138 19183
22
Anna Netrebko
43 0 0 0 0 0 0 86181
23
Giuseppe Patanè
43 0 0 0 0 0 0 298
24
Bryn Terfel
43 0 0 0 0 0 0 23651
25
Kiri Te Kanawa
43 0 0 0 0 0 0 47617
26
Marco Armiliato
43 0 0 0 0 0 0 667
27
Angela Gheorghiu
42 0 28 36 91 19 83 31257
28
Ileana Cotrubas
42 0 0 0 0 0 0 3203
29
Andreas Scholl
41 14 31 17 87 13 97 36236
30
Mirella Freni
41 0 23 17 97 5 104 23419
31
Roberto Alagna
40 0 58 65 69 58 137 30225
32
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
40 0 0 0 0 0 0 28218
33
Jonas Kaufmann
40 0 0 0 0 0 0 59906
34
Ruggero Leoncavallo
40 0 0 0 0 0 0 9461
35
The London Opera Chorus
39 0 0 0 0 0 0 3386
36
Rolando Villazón
39 0 0 0 0 0 0 27706
37
Nicolai Ghiaurov
39 0 0 0 0 0 0 2762
38
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris
39 0 0 0 0 0 0 1230
39
Nicola Rescigno
39 0 0 0 0 0 0 575
40
Lamberto Gardelli
38 0 17 22 98 15 77 426
41
Anne Sofie von Otter
38 0 0 0 0 0 0 25606
42
Samuel Ramey
37 0 0 0 0 0 0 8477
43
Umberto Giordano
37 0 0 0 0 0 0 4515
44
Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala Di Milano
37 0 0 0 0 0 0 7675
45
Elina Garanca
37 0 0 0 0 0 0 28466
46
PKF – Prague Philharmonia
36 0 0 0 0 0 0 89
47
Sherrill Milnes
36 0 0 0 0 0 0 5433
48
Kathleen Battle
36 0 0 0 0 0 0 19450
49
Sir John Pritchard
36 0 0 0 0 0 0 292
50
Rolando Panerai
36 0 0 0 0 0 0 2688
51
Sara Mingardo
36 0 0 0 0 0 0 3791
52
Giuseppe Di Stefano
36 5 20 22 90 14 109 35541
53
Oliviero de Fabritiis
35 0 0 0 0 0 0 178
54
Anton Guadagno
35 0 0 0 0 0 0 199
55
Nicolai Gedda
35 0 0 0 0 0 0 5101
56
Antonino Votto
35 0 0 0 0 0 0 974
57
Juan Diego Flórez
35 0 0 0 0 0 0 48827
58
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
35 0 0 0 0 0 0 1846
59
Bernarda Fink
35 0 0 0 0 0 0 2838
60
Véronique Gens
35 0 0 0 0 0 0 6795
61
Natalie Dessay
35 0 35 24 88 16 88 23258
62
Jessye Norman
35 18 31 18 99 4 97 46169
63
Joyce DiDonato
34 0 0 0 0 0 0 21958
64
Sandrine Piau
34 0 0 0 0 0 0 10931
65
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
34 0 0 0 0 0 0 13008
66
Piero de Palma
34 0 0 0 0 0 0 669
67
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
34 2 33 19 92 23 100 19654
68
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
34 0 0 0 0 0 0 2534
69
José van Dam
34 1 29 8 99 11 88 3263
70
Christa Ludwig
33 0 0 0 0 0 0 7983
71
Carlo Bergonzi
33 0 18 26 98 10 63 11814
72
Teresa Berganza
33 0 57 54 91 84 144 17843
73
Diana Damrau
33 0 0 0 0 0 0 32003
74
Fritz Wunderlich
33 0 0 0 0 0 0 14599
75
Lucia Popp
33 0 0 0 0 0 0 11666
76
Agnes Baltsa
33 1 32 22 96 12 92 6317
77
Nathalie Stutzmann
33 0 0 0 0 0 0 11684
78
Thomas Hampson
33 0 39 20 97 20 113 8753
79
John Mauceri
33 0 0 0 0 0 0 449
80
Renata Tebaldi
33 9 27 17 96 13 95 42110
81
Alfredo Kraus
32 0 25 28 97 30 116 29013
82
Joseph Calleja
32 0 0 0 0 0 0 8488
83
Renata Scotto
32 35 32 11 98 10 93 12856
84
Victoria de los Ángeles
31 2 37 16 96 30 112 11155
85
Sumi Jo
31 0 54 53 37 20 110 14568
86
Enrico Caruso
31 1 30 38 99 22 106 52876
87
Barbara Hendricks
31 0 19 7 96 4 99 13918
88
Tom Krause
31 0 0 0 0 0 0 1665
89
Julia Lezhneva
31 0 0 0 0 0 0 6983
90
Janet Baker
31 0 0 0 0 0 0 5737
91
Jennifer Larmore
31 0 0 0 0 0 0 1854
92
Olga Peretyatko
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 2397
93
Piero Cappuccilli
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 4606
94
Leontyne Price
30 3 20 16 96 6 91 24018
95
Katia Ricciarelli
30 0 29 22 99 7 82 5214
96
Bruno Bartoletti
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 175
97
Francesco Cilea
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 1096
98
Simon Keenlyside
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 2935
99
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 414
100
Leo Nucci
30 0 30 12 99 15 168 4931
101
Vittorio Gui
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 381
102
Marcello Viotti
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 1114
103
Magdalena Kozená
30 0 0 0 0 0 0 11858
104
Nello Santi
29 0 0 0 0 0 0 144
105
Tito Gobbi
29 0 48 17 96 31 106 7101
106
Marie-Nicole Lemieux
29 0 0 0 0 0 0 3956
107
Hermann Prey
29 0 0 0 0 0 0 4129
108
Brigitte Fassbaender
29 0 0 0 0 0 0 3397
109
Edita Gruberova
29 0 0 0 0 0 0 5818
110
Ruggero Raimondi
29 0 0 0 0 0 0 5378
111
Huguette Tourangeau
29 0 0 0 0 0 0 362
112
Jussi Björling
29 19 25 34 95 18 88 25087
113
Mario del Monaco
29 3 26 31 86 17 109 24871
114
Roberta Invernizzi
28 0 0 0 0 0 0 3083
115
Simone Kermes
28 0 30 12 99 17 101 7301
116
Franco Corelli
28 12 22 18 99 12 104 30223
117
Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon
28 0 0 0 0 0 0 712
118
Ramón Vargas
28 0 0 0 0 0 0 5411
119
Gabriele Santini
28 0 0 0 0 0 0 351
120
Maurizio Benini
28 0 0 0 0 0 0 2042
121
Thomas Allen
27 0 0 0 0 0 0 3333
122
Beniamino Gigli
27 9 26 29 98 21 97 16989
123
Patricia Petibon
27 0 35 22 97 15 81 13606
124
Sir Edward Downes
27 0 0 0 0 0 0 235
125
Marilyn Horne
27 0 0 0 0 0 0 12793
126
George London
27 0 0 0 0 0 0 1823
127
Frederica von Stade
27 0 0 0 0 0 0 7754
128
Franco Fagioli
27 0 0 0 0 0 0 7215
129
Tobias Ringborg
27 0 0 0 0 0 0 144
130
Anna Moffo
27 0 0 0 0 0 0 10072
131
Donald Runnicles
26 0 0 0 0 0 0 1147
132
Julius Rudel
26 0 0 0 0 0 0 323
133
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper München
26 0 0 0 0 0 0 126
134
Max Emanuel Cenčić
26 0 0 0 0 0 0 3915
135
Gerald Finley
26 0 0 0 0 0 0 1408
136
Birgit Nilsson
26 0 23 24 97 5 81 11872
137
Enzo Dara
26 0 0 0 0 0 0 1587
138
Fiorenza Cossotto
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 3695
139
Richard Armstrong
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 67
140
Giuseppe Taddei
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 2640
141
Nadine Sierra
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 5108
142
Alberto Erede
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 312
143
Pretty Yende
25 0 25 33 91 8 80 6922
144
René Pape
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 1594
145
Karina Gauvin
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 3882
146
Francisco Araiza
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 2556
147
Piotr Beczala
24 0 0 0 0 0 0 3526
148
Thomas Schippers
24 0 0 0 0 0 0 394
149
Sonia Prina
24 0 0 0 0 0 0 1323
150
Ettore Bastianini
24 0 0 0 0 0 0 5543
151
Fedora Barbieri
23 0 0 0 0 0 0 1258
152
Benjamin Bernheim
23 0 0 0 0 0 0 1870
153
Robert Merrill
23 0 0 0 0 0 0 2722
154
Cesare Siepi
23 0 0 0 0 0 0 3519
155
Sonya Yoncheva
23 0 0 0 0 0 0 5773
156
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma
23 0 0 0 0 0 0 46
157
Waltraud Meier
23 0 0 0 0 0 0 1533
158
June Anderson
22 0 0 0 0 0 0 3021
159
Sylvain Cambreling
22 0 0 0 0 0 0 748
160
Carlo Felice Cillario
22 0 0 0 0 0 0 97
161
Grace Bumbry
22 0 0 0 0 0 0 3406
162
Susan Graham
22 0 0 0 0 0 0 4430
163
Renato Bruson
21 0 0 0 0 0 0 3570
164
Beverly Sills
21 0 0 0 0 0 0 8453
165
Shirley Verrett
21 0 0 0 0 0 0 4982
166
Olga Borodina
21 0 0 0 0 0 0 1383
167
Kirsten Flagstad
20 0 34 9 98 17 62 4726
168
Lawrence Brownlee
20 0 0 0 0 0 0 2941
169
Jon Vickers
20 0 0 0 0 0 0 3394
170
Fausto Cleva
19 0 0 0 0 0 0 160
171
David Daniels
19 0 0 0 0 0 0 2540
172
Romano Gandolfi
19 0 0 0 0 0 0 103
173
Tito Schipa
19 0 28 15 98 35 87 7822
174
Choeurs et Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris
19 0 0 0 0 0 0 52
175
Ewa Podles
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 1322
176
Nicole Cabell
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 578
177
Richard Tucker
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 4213
178
Nicola Luisotti
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 60
179
Marijana Mijanovic
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 1917
180
Giulietta Simionato
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 2665
181
Sondra Radvanovsky
17 0 0 0 0 0 0 2394
182
Elena Obraztsova
17 0 0 0 0 0 0 1824
183
Vivica Genaux
16 0 0 0 0 0 0 3980
184
Ann Hallenberg
16 0 0 0 0 0 0 2694
185
Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania
16 0 0 0 0 0 0 108
186
Ildar Abdrazakov
15 0 0 0 0 0 0 1034
187
Bejun Mehta
15 0 0 0 0 0 0 2432
188
Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice
14 0 0 0 0 0 0 87
189
Franco Capuana
14 0 0 0 0 0 0 47
190
Argeo Quadri
14 0 0 0 0 0 0 43
191
Anita Rachvelishvili
12 0 0 0 0 0 0 2119
192
Romina Basso
12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1856
193
Alfredo Simonetto
11 0 0 0 0 0 0 52
194
Vesselina Kasarova
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 952
195
Hamburg State Opera Orchestra
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 92
196
Xavier Sabata
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 2388
197
Bruno Campanella
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 18
198
Mariella Devia
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1722
199
Elena Suliotis
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 546
200
Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 133