I sing opera and you're right the, best thing you can do for yourself is get lessons. Depending on your age it may be too late to get into a really good music college because you will need years of experience and training in operatic singing to be accepted into anywhere like the guildhall (if you live in england, not sure where you live). You can't wake up one day after your first lesson and be able to sing in an operatic voice, it took me a year of lessons to be able to sing like an opera singer. Many young opera singers want to teach on the side to earn a bit of money, thats how i found my teacher when i was eleven.
I know you want tips so i can give you a few for now but your teacher will be able to help you a lot more than i can. When you are learning to sing opera the most important thing is volume, you can get this safely by pulling in your stomach when you sing and pulling it in suddenly harder for sudden high or low notes (don't do this for a bit because you may strain your voice). A very common singing mistake is trying to sing on not enough air, you won't be able to get anywhere near the volume you want if you snatch a breath a the beginning of a song. You will need to snatch breaths during a song but at the beginning and after any long pause start breathing a few bars before you have to come in. Push out your stomach as you breathe in (do this for all breaths) and during a long breath try to imagine as if the air is filling every part of your body from your toes upwards. In opera you will need some vibrato but this is not crucial, vibrato will come as you train so don't worry about it, some singers don't even have any. You need to take this gently because if you start using all these techniques on an untrained voice that doesn't have much power then you will most likely strain it, sometimes beyond repair.
Hope all this helped, good luck!
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