Overture (disambiguation)

An overture is the instrumental introduction to a dramatic, choral or, occasionally, instrumental composition.

Overture may also refer to:

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Overture Networks, multi-national manufacturer of networking and telecommunications equipment
Overture Films theatrical motion picture production & distribution company
Overture Services, an Internet search engine company acquired by Yahoo! in 2003

"Overture" (Def Leppard song), the last track on Def Leppard's debut album On Through The Night (1980)
"Overture" (The Who song), a song by The Who from the 1969 rock opera Tommy
"Overture 1928", the second track from Dream Theater's fifth studio album, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
"Overture" (Bruckner), an orchestral composition by Anton Bruckner
"Overture", a 2015 song by AJR from Living Room
"Overture", a 2017 song by AJR from The Click
"Overture", a 2023 song by Kamelot from The Awakening
"Overture", a 2010 song by Martin O'Donnell on the soundtrack of Halo: Reach
"Overture", a 2007 song by Patrick Wolf from The Magic Position
"Overture", a song from Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Dolores Gray as Annie Oakley
"Overture", the instrumental introduction of Rush's song "2112" from the album of the same name, released in 1976

Overture (novel), a 2018 novel by Zlatko Topčić
Overture (video game), a 2015 action-adventure game
Overture Center, a performing arts center and art gallery in Madison, Wisconsin
Penumbra: Overture, a survival horror PC video game, the first installment of the Penumbra series by Frictional Games
Overture (software), notation software developed by Sonic Scores
Boom Overture, a supersonic jet airliner expected to be introduced around 2029