Opus

Opus (pl.: opera) is a Latin word meaning "(a result of) work". Italian equivalents are opera (singular) and opere (plural).

Opus or OPUS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Opus number, (abbr. Op.) specifying order of (usually) publication, and hence applied to collections as well as individual compositions
• Opus Records, a Slovak record label

Bands

• Opus (Austrian band), an Austrian pop-rock group
• Opus (Yugoslav band), a Yugoslav progressive rock group
• Opus (Latvian band), Latvian music group
• Pur (band), a German pop group originally known as "Opus"

Albums

• Opus (Opus album), 1987 album by Austrian band Opus
• Opus (Schiller album), 2013 album by German music project Schiller
• Opus, a 2014 album by Jane Badler
• Opus (Eric Prydz album), 2016 album by the electronic artist Eric Prydz
  • "Opus" (Eric Prydz song), song from the eponymous album.
• Opus, a 2007 compilation album by Mr. Sam
• Opus (Marc Anthony album), 2019 album by Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony

Songs

• "Opus", a song by Black Country, New Road from the 2021 album 'For the First Time'

Publications

• Opus (comic strip), by Berkeley Breathed
  • Opus the Penguin, the title character of the strip, originally from Bloom County
• Opus (manga), a manga by Satoshi Kon
• Opus (University of Newcastle magazine), a student newspaper of the University of Newcastle, Australia
• Opus (classical record magazine), an American magazine

Other arts

• Opus (film), a 2025 film starring John Malkovich
• Opus (play), a 2006 play by Michael Hollinger
• Work of art (L. opus)
• Magnum opus or masterwork

Computing

• Opus (audio format), an audio coding format
• Opus (microkernel), an operating system kernel
• Opus-CBCS, a computer bulletin board system
• Directory Opus, a file manager program
• OPUS (software), digital repository software
• Claude Opus 4.5, a version of the Claude (language model)

Organisations

• Opus Group Berhad, a consortium of several different companies operating under the Opus brand name
• Opus Energy, an electricity and gas supplier based in the United Kingdom
• Opus College of Business, United States

Transportation

• Opus card, a card used for public transit in Quebec, Canada
• Opus, a bus manufactured by Optima Bus Corporation

Other uses

• Opus (mythology), a son of Zeus
• Opus, Greece, a city in ancient Locris, Greece
• Opus (Elis), a town in ancient Elis, Greece
• Opus (architecture), generic term for "construction method", "construction material", "masonry", in use in Ancient Rome
• OPUS (chromatography), a line of chromatography columns manufactured by Repligen Corporation
• OPUS (psychiatry), a Danish early intervention program for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders
• Opus Film, a Polish film production company

See also

• Mr. Holland's Opus, a 1995 film starring Richard Dreyfuss
• Magnum opus (disambiguation)
• Opera (disambiguation) (plural form of opus)
• Opus Dei (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Opus
• All pages with titles containing Opus