Opera Resources on the World Wide Web
The following listing includes opera information servers on the Web that we
recommend for your additional browsing pleasure. We do not pretend to
maintain an exhaustive list of all opera-oriented sites.
Additional sites may be suggested for inclusion, but the editors reserve
the right to accept or reject such suggestions.
The sites listed are strictly educational and informational, providing
general information about the world of opera.
We regret that we cannot provide links to commercial sites offering goods
and services.
Coordinate Sites
The following sites provide the same kinds of information that
OperaGlass specializes in, and many links within the pages of
OperaGlass are to pages in these sites. Naturally these sites
are especially recommended!
- Opera
Libretti and other Vocal Texts (Lyle Neff)
- Opera of
America (Christopher Hapka): American opera composers and
their works
- The Opera-L
Synopsis Project (Neil Broderick)
-
Vox Neapolis:
Libretti (Marta Columbro)
- Bob Frone's Opera
Page: current performances, links to company sites and fan pages,
opera info with concentration on French Opera
- Great Russian
Voices (Victor Han): many referenced individually under our fan
pages
- OperaResource
(Anne Lawson): links to synopses, libretti, pictures, sound clips, opera
houses...
- Richard
Wagner Homepage (Dirk Meyer)
- Opera
Web: synopses, background information, discographies, amusements
- Eduardo Almagro's Kareol: synopses
discographies, libretti and translations (español)
- Operaworks:
synopses, libretti and English translations
- The Opera Archive
(Prof. Clive Brown, Bretton Hall): critical editions and recordings rare
works
General Sites
- CORPUS -
Coordinated Opera Resource Pages (Mike Gibb): a comprehensive index of
opera resources on the net
- Operabase (Mike Gibb):
a searchable database of information on opera houses and festivals, and
performance schedules, timelines of opera history (some info linking back
to this site); multilingual! Also opera reviews (see below).
- The Opera Schedule Server
(Tamas Maray): performance schedules, opera houses
- fan d'Opera:
Compositeurs, Opéras, Personnages, Liens
- La Scala
Archives (a searchable database of operas, artists, composers,
librettists, characters, dates and places; the official archive of
Teatro alla Scala)
- Classical Music
Links (Marco Benedetti): topically organized links (many of the
opera-related ones mirror this site)
- American Berlin Opera
Foundation: scholarships for study and training at the
Deutsche Oper Berlin
-
Dictionaries
of Recorded Opera and Opera Arias (Mario Biondi): dates,
composers, librettists, sources, recordings, aria titles
- Wilhelm G. Busse's complete Verdi
Discography
-
CIRPeM - Centro Internazionale di Ricerca sui Periodici Musicali:
bibliographic links and information
- Classical Insites:
Classical music chat
-
OPERA
(Albert O. Cordell): research papers, Casa Verdi
- Directory of Musicians
(Paul Critser)
- Jane's Opera
Page (Jane Susanna Ennis): miscellaneous links, especially to
British sites; also links to sources of the Wagner operas
- Richard Wagner Web Site
(Kristian Evensen)
- The Aria Database
(Robert Glaubitz): a searchable database of aria texts, translations, and
sound files
- Singers
and Samples (Carlton Higginbotham): Biographical information and
sound samples of great opera singers of the past
- Frank Hoof's collection of Opera and
Oratorio Libretti
- Sarasota Music
Archive (Warren Kahn): recorded music research services
- Tom Kaufman's
Bel Canto Page:
including information on Mercadante, Pacini, Vaccai, and other composers
- KidsOp Intenrational
Operas for children
- Theaterszene
Köln
- Nibelheim
(Andrea Kirkby): essays, performance reviews (UK)
- John Koopman's A Brief
History of Singing from antiquity to the present day
- Classical Net
(Dave Lampson): reviews, composer information, links
- Classical
Singers' Association (Shigemi Matsumoto): classes, events
- Opera America: home page
of this professional association of opera companies, with schedules,
information on costume/set/prop rentals, and a personal directory
- Opera-L
Archives: postings to the primary opera newsgroup, since 1995
- Operadata: opera
performances (current information is free, longer-term and historic info
requires subscription)
- Operissimo: a searchable
relational database of opera recordings indexed by performers and roles;
huge lists of operas and composers
- Opernarchiv: schedules,
reviews, news (Deutsch)
- Suzanne Payne's
Opera
Links: companies, general links
- Operacalli
(Alicia Ponce): Efemerides de Opera, Opereta y Zarzuela; extensive
calendar of premieres, births, and deaths (English / Español)
- Daring
Diva (Gary Poster): lots of useful information for singers
- Manuel Prestamo's
Music Links
(large collection of opera-related URL's)
- Centro studi Giacomo Puccini,
Lucca (Michele Girardi)
- Soprano
Central (Craig Ross): biographies, pictures, schedules
- Homepage der Deutsche
Rossini Gesellschaft
- Sonances: 20th century music
(Français, English)
- Casa Musicale Sonzogno:
information about the operas they publish
- Stage Agent:
information about American opera auditions
- Irish Opera
Online (Gary Stephens)
- Richard Strauss
Archive (official)
- Tenorland:
biographies of great tenors, past & present
- Urpo Tienhaara's
Rare Operatic MIDIs
- Richard Wagner
Archive (Hannu Salmi)
- Wagner
Society of New York
- Wagner Society of Northern
California
- Basil Walsh's Michael
Balfe Web Site
- Yahoo Opera
Page
- Zarzuela
Homepage
- Honoria in
Ciberspazio: a participatory cyberspace opera under construction
Opera Review Sites
-
OperaGlass Reviews: selected
reviews of general interest, plus Judy Richter's reviews for the San
Francisco Bay Area
-
Opera West
David Gregson's reviews for Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego,
San Francisco, Santa Fé, and Seattle
- Operabase:
Indexed reviews from The Times of London and Corriere della Sera of Milan
Opera E-zines (Electronic Magazines)
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Tuesday, 11-Sep-2007 19:00:08 PDT