- 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:
- 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