List of television operas
This is a list of operas specifically written for television performance.
| Year of premiere | Composed | Composer | Opera title | Librettist and/or source | Television station |
| 1938 | Spike Hughes | Cinderella | Spike Hughes | BBC Television | |
| 1947 | Spike Hughes | St Patrick's Day | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | BBC Television | |
| 1951 | Gian Carlo Menotti | Amahl and the Night Visitors | Gian Carlo Menotti | NBC | |
| 1953 | Bohuslav Martinů | The Marriage | Bohuslav Martinů | NBC | |
| 1953 | Bohuslav Martinů | What Men Live By | Bohuslav Martinů | NBC | |
| 1954 | Bernard Herrmann | A Christmas Carol | Maxwell Anderson after Charles Dickens | CBS | |
| 1955 | Lukas Foss | Griffelkin | Alastair Reid | NBC | |
| 1956 | Norman Dello Joio | The Trial at Rouen | Norman Dello Joio | NBC | |
| 1956 | Leonard Kastle | The Swing | Leonard Kastle | NBC | |
| 1956 | Arthur Benjamin | Mañana | Caryl Brahms | BBC Television | |
| 1956 | Malcolm Arnold | The Open Window | Sidney Gilliat | BBC Television | |
| 1957 | Joan Trimble | Blind Raftery | Cedric Cliffe, based on the novel by Donn-Byrne | BBC Television | |
| 1957 | Stanley Hollingsworth | La Grande Bretèche | Stanley Hollingsworth | NBC | |
| 1959 | Richard Arnell | The Petrified Princess | Richard Arnell | BBC Television | |
| 1959 | Guy Halahan | The Spur of the Moment | Guy Halahan | BBC Television | |
| 1959 | Gian Carlo Menotti | Maria Golovin | Gian Carlo Menotti | NBC | |
| 1959 | Lee Hoiby | Beatrice | Marci Nardi | WAVE | |
| 1959 | Ezra Laderman | Sarah | Clair Rascom | CBS | |
| 1959 | Heinrich Sutermeister | Seraphine | Heinrich Sutermeister, after François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel | Schweizer Fernsehen | |
| 1959 | Henk Badings | Salto mortale | Henk Badings and Belcampo | Nederlandse Omroep Stichting | |
| 1959 | Paul Angerer | Passkontrolle | ORF | ||
| 1960 | Arthur Bliss | Tobias and the Angel | Christopher Hassall | BBC Television | |
| 1961 | Leonard Kastle | Deseret | Anne Howard Bailey | NBC | |
| 1961 | Jean Prodromidès | Les Perses | :fr:Jean Prat |Jean Prat, after Aeschylus | RTF | |
| 1962 | Igor Stravinsky | The Flood | Robert Craft | CBS | |
| 1962 | Phyllis Tate | Dark Pilgrimage | Phyllis Tate | BBC Television | |
| 1962 | Edwin Coleman | A Christmas Carol | Margaret Burns Harris | BBC Television | |
| 1962 | Riccardo Malipiero | Battono alla porta | Dino Buzzati | RAI | |
| 1963 | Ben McPeek | The Bargain | Ben McPeek | CBC Television | |
| 1963 | Gian Carlo Menotti | Labyrinth | Gian Carlo Menotti | NBC | |
| 1963 | Carlisle Floyd | The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair | Carlisle Floyd | NCE | |
| 1963 | Ton de Leeuw | Alceste | Euripides | Nederlandse Omroep Stichting | |
| 1964 | Heinrich Sutermeister | Das Gespenst von Canterville | Heinrich Sutermeister, after Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost | Mainz, ZDF | |
| 1965 | Mark Bucci | The Hero | Mark Bucci | National Educational Television | |
| 1965 | Carl Davis | The Arrangement | Leo Lehman | BBC Television | |
| 1965 | Gian Carlo Menotti | Martin's Lie | Gian Carlo Menotti | CBS | |
| 1966 | R. Murray Schafer | Loving | R. Murray Schafer | CBC Television | |
| 1967 | Ezra Laderman | The Trials of Galileo | Joe Darion | CBS Television | |
| 1967 | Ingvar Lidholm | Holländaren | after August Strindberg | Sveriges Television | |
| 1967 | Roman Vlad | La fantarca | Giuseppe Berto | RAI | |
| 1967 | Christopher Whelen | Some Place of Darkness | John Hopkins | BBC Television | |
| 1969 | Thomas Eastwood | The Rebel | Ronald Duncan | BBC Television | |
| 1969 | Heinrich Sutermeister | La croisade des enfants | Heinrich Sutermeister, after Marcel Schwob | Sion Sierre, TVR | |
| 1970 | Jack Beeson | My Heart's in the Highlands | Jack Beeson | PBS | |
| 1971 | Heinrich Sutermeister | Das Flaschenteufel | Kurt Weibel, after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle Imp | Mainz, ZDF | |
| 1971 | 1969-70 | Benjamin Britten | Owen Wingrave | Myfanwy Piper, after Henry James | BBC Two |
| 1971 | Ezra Laderman | And David Wept | Joe Darion, after the Biblical story of David and Bathsheba | CBS Television | |
| 1973 | John Eaton | Myshkin | Patrick Creagh after Dostoevsky's The Idiot | PBS | |
| 1976 | Godfrey Ridout | The Lost Child | John Reid | CBC Television | |
| 1976 | Raymond Pannell | Aberfan | Beverly Pannell | CBC Television | |
| 1977 | Carl Davis | Orpheus in the Underworld | John Wells | BBC Television | |
| 1984 | Robert Ashley | Perfect Lives | Robert Ashley | Channel Four | |
| 1991 | Michael Nyman | Letters, Riddles and Writs | Jeremy Newson and Pat Gavin | BBC Television | |
| 1994 | 1991-2 | Gerald Barry | The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit | Meredith Oakes | Channel Four |
| 2005 | Judith Weir | Armida | Judith Weir | Channel Four | |
| 2006 | Jonathan Dove | Man on the Moon | Nicholas Wright | Channel Four | |
| 2006 | Alexina Louie | Dan Redican | CBC Television |