List of Some Common Overtures
Some well-known or commonly played Overtures:
- Arensky: A Dream on the Volga
- Arnold:
- Beckus the Dandipratt
- Peterloo
- Tam O'Shanter
- Auber: Fra Diavolo
- Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal
- Bax: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
- Beethoven:
- Leonora Nr 1
- Leonora Nr 2
- Leonora Nr 3
- Fidelio
- Coriolanus
- Egmont
- Ruins of Athens
- Berlioz:
- The Corsair
- Les Francs-Juges
- Waverley
- Rob Roy
- King Lear
- Benvenuto Cellini
- Carnaval Roman
- Bernstein: Candide
- Bizet: Carmen
- Borodin: Prince Igor
- Brahms:
- Academic Festival Overture
- Tragic Overture
- Copland: An Outdoor Overture
- Dvořák: Carnival Overture
- Elgar:
- Alassio: In the South
- Cockaigne
- Froissart
- Gershwin: Cuban Overture
- Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla
- Gomes: Il Guarany
- Josef Haydn: Armida
- Hérold: Zampa
- John Ireland:
- A London Overture
- Satyricon Overture
- Lalo: Le roi d'Ys
- Léhar: The Merry Widow
- MacCunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
- Mendelssohn:
- Hebrides (or Fingal's Cave)
- Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage
- Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Miaskovsky:
- Pathetic Overture
- Salutation Overture
- Mozart:
- Marriage of Figaro
- La clemenza di Tito
- Cosi fan tutte
- Don Giovanni
- Idomeneo
- The Abduction from the Seraglio
- Magic flute
- Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Nielsen:
- Maskarade
- Helios
- Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes
- Rezniceck: Donna Diana
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
- Rossini:
- La cambiale di matrimonio
- Tancredi
- Il Signor Bruschino
- The Italian Girl in Algiers
- Il Turco in Italia
- The Silken Ladder
- The Thieving Magpie
- La Cenerentola
- Semiramide
- Il Viaggio a Reims
- The Barber of Seville
- William Tell
- Schubert:
- Overture in Italian Style, D560
- Rosamunde
- Schumann:
- Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52
- Manfred
- Genoveva
- Faust
- Shostakovich: Festive Overture
- Smetana: The Bartered Bride
- Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
- Sibelius: Overture to the Tempest
- Sullivan:
- Mikado
- Gondoliers
- The Yeoman of the Guard
- Suppé
- Light Cavalry Overture
- The Beautiful Galatea
- Poet and Peasant
- Tchaikovsky:
- Festival Overture "1812"
- Hamlet
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Nutcracker Overture
- Verdi: La forza del destino
- Wagner:
- Faust Overture
- Polonia
- Rienzi
- Flying Dutchman
- Tannhäuser
- Walton
- Johannesburg Festival Overture
- Scapino
- Portsmouth Point
- Weber:
- Euryanthe
- Der Freischütz
- Invitation to the Dance
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