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Opera Resources

Links

• All About Opera
  http://www.allaboutopera.com/
  "Information on 475+ composers and 1250+ operas. Our goal is to provide links from each composer and opera to external web pages of interest. You can search by composer's name or opera title."



• The Aria Database
  http://www.aria-database.com/
  "...a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias..."



• Important Sources of Libretti on the Internet
  http://wwwsys.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/weber1/opera/libretto.htm
  "This is an index of known libretto pages, arranged by composer and name of the opera. In some cases also texts of other vocal pieces are included."



• The Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center
  http://www.operainfo.org/
  "Find opera synopses, biographies for singers, conductors and composers, production photos, sound clips, background information, and teacher study guides for each opera in our broadcast season."



• Online Opera Scores Prototype
  http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/scores.html
  "Selected opera scores chosen from the Cook Music Library's holdings"(Indiana University site)



• Opera Glass
  http://rick.stanford.edu/opera/main.html
  "An opera information server" providing "detailed information, including libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, [and] discographies."



• The Opera Schedule Server
  http://www.fsz.bme.hu/opera/main.html
  Features "Opera companies on the Web" and "Other opera related information sources on the Web".



• Operabase
  http://www.operabase.com/en/
  Database searchable for festivals, current newspaper articles and reviews, information on performers, artists, opera houses, and audio and video recordings.



• Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database
  http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/operatv/index.html
  "Documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States"..."Traces performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video."