Some Royal Morning Music: Overtures

Some well-known or commonly played Overtures

• Anton Arensky: A Dream on the Volga
• Malcolm Arnold:
  • Beckus the Dandipratt
  • Peterloo
  • Tam O'Shanter
• Daniel Auber: Fra Diavolo
• Samuel Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal
• Arnold Bax: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
• Ludwig van Beethoven:
  • Leonora Nr 1
  • Leonora Nr 2
  • Leonora Nr 3
  • Fidelio
  • Coriolanus
  • Egmont
  • Ruins of Athens
• Hector Berlioz:
  • Benvenuto Cellini
  • Le carnaval romain
  • Le corsair
  • Les Francs-Juges
  • King Lear
  • Rob Roy
  • Waverley
• Leonard Bernstein: Candide
• Georges Bizet: Carmen
• Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor
• Johannes Brahms:
  • Academic Festival Overture
  • Tragic Overture
• Anton Bruckner: Overture in G minor (WAB 98)
• Aaron Copland: An Outdoor Overture
• Antonín Dvořák: Carnival Overture
• Edward Elgar:
  • Alassio: In the South
  • Cockaigne
  • Froissart
• George Gershwin:
  • Cuban Overture
  • Overture to Strike Up the Band
• Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla
• Antônio Carlos Gomes: Il Guarany
• Joseph Haydn: Armida
• Ferdinand Hérold: Zampa
• John Ireland:
  • A London Overture
  • Satyricon Overture
• Édouard Lalo: Le roi d'Ys
• Franz Lehár: The Merry Widow Overture
• Hamish MacCunn: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
• Felix Mendelssohn:
  • Hebrides (or Fingal's Cave)
  • Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage
  • Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Nikolai Miaskovsky:
  • Pathetic Overture
  • Salutation Overture
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
  • Marriage of Figaro
  • La clemenza di Tito
  • Cosi fan tutte
  • Don Giovanni
  • Idomeneo
  • The Abduction from the Seraglio
  • Magic Flute
• Otto Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Carl Nielsen:
  • Maskarade
  • Helios
• Jacques Offenbach:
  • Orpheus in the Underworld
• Sergei Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes
• Emil von Rezniček: Donna Diana
• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture
• Gioachino Rossini:
  • La cambiale di matrimonio
  • Tancredi
  • Il Signor Bruschino
  • Il Turco in Italia
  • La Cenerentola
  • Semiramide
  • Il Viaggio a Reims
  • The Barber of Seville
  • La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
  • L'italiana in algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)
  • La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder)
  • William Tell
• Franz Schubert:
  • Overture in Italian Style, D560
  • Rosamunde
• Robert Schumann:
  • Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52
  • Manfred
  • Genoveva
  • Faust
  • Julius Caesar
  • Hermann und Dorothea
  • The Bride of Messina
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture
• Bedrich Smetana: The Bartered Bride
• Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus
• Jean Sibelius: Overture to The Tempest
• Arthur Sullivan:
  • The Mikado
  • The Gondoliers
  • The Yeoman of the Guard
• Franz von Suppé
  • Light Cavalry Overture
  • The Beautiful Galatea
  • Poet and Peasant
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
  • 1812 Overture
  • Hamlet [Overture-Fantasy]
  • Romeo and Juliet [Overture-Fantasy]
  • The Nutcracker Overture
• Giuseppe Verdi:
  • La forza del destino
  • Nabucco
• Richard Wagner:
  • Faust Overture
  • Rienzi Overture
  • The Flying Dutchman
  • Tannhäuser Overture
  • Die Meistersinger von Nürberg
• William Walton
  • Johannesburg Festival Overture
  • Scapino Overture
  • Portsmouth Point Overture
• Carl Maria von Weber:
  • Euryanthe
  • Der Freischütz