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Song Liling in M. Butterfly (1993)
Would you like to be able to search for info on a particular aria, opera, or composer? This is the place. Search by name, opera, language, or voice type. The database includes MIDI files of some of the music, libretti, translations, and more. Mozart and Verdi are featured, but many other composers are also included. Related links also included.
If you’re at all interested in how an opera comes to be, visit this fascinating site. In the Cologne Journal section, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz describes the plans for this semi-historical opera in progress. Check out the history, the bibliography, and of course the castle photos.
At this location, you can find details on two operas by Clarry Evans and Judy Stevens: Boadicea - The Celtic Opera and Macbeth - The Rock Opera. Descriptions of the operas, reviews, libretti, a calendar of performances, and tapes of live performances.
Bob may be mad, but sure provides an interesting site. The 3-D Opera Gallery is best viewed with 3D glasses. Plenty to see and do here—a collection of opera singers’ advertisements for various products, photo essays of singers (some drawn from home movies), even a list of appearances by opera singers in the movies.
Could you use a customized audiocassette of arias for rehearsal? This commercial site lists prerecorded tapes in various voices for quite a number of arias—and may be able to provide others that don’t appear on the menu. Order via mail, email, or fax. Pricing information included at the site.
A webzine by and for fans of opera and classical music. Updated quarterly. Reviews, slide shows, pics, embedded sound files. For best viewing, you’ll need a fairly fast modem and a recent version of Netscape or Internet Explorer. Be prepared for sound at a substantial volume—the Java applets may reset your volume levels.
An endearingly personal site at which an opera lover has recorded his impressions about opera performances from 1988 to the present.
With prize money of more than $45,000 and competitors numbering more than 800, the MacAllister Awards are a significant competition for opera singers. This site provides all the details on the contest and its sponsor, the Indiana Opera Theatre.
This personal site belongs to a real Wagner fan, and are devoted to Parsifal. Quite a few articles on various aspects, including a chronology, the libretto (in German), a discography, and so on. Many, many links to related opera sites—both performers and companies.
Come to Musical On Line when you’re in search of professional companies or musicians. Strictly listings and links, except for a musical chat room. The opera company list reaches outside the U.S. into Canada and Europe. Dozens of links.
Information and current schedules for the world-famous New York City Opera. Includes performer biographies.
Two different lists of opera companies and opera/voice-related sites.
An opera information server. Here you can get detailed information, including performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more on any of a small but rapidly growing number of operas, plus pointers to many other opera servers.
An electronic publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc., New York, New York. Historical and musical analyses, performance reviews, profiles and interviews, more. Visitors are welcome to pop in and scope out selected news and articles before subscribing. A subscription gives you access to the full magazine online and via mail.
A searchable database providing information about “what’s playing” at opera houses all around the world.
This unusual site, a production of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, provides a pronouncing dictionary, complete with a brief description and a sound file, for dozens of names associated with opera—names of composers, names of operas. Also connects to the Opera Memphis home page.
Detailed information on broadcast and performance schedules, festivals, and events; opera houses; reviews and links. Includes opera timelines for viewers seeking a little history. Databases searchable by singer, conductor, producer, composer, and more. A complete and complex site, available in five languages.
Home site for Opera Factory, a London-based company that produces classic and contemporary works, with emphasis on physical as well as musical training. News on current tours and activities.
An online magazine for opera fans, featuring performer interviews, articles, schedules, and reviews of performances and recordings.
Site for The Ring Disc, a CD-ROM interactive guide to Wagner’s Ring Cycle, based on the Decca/Solti recording. (Requires Windows 95 or NT on a Pentium system and at least 800resolution.) Includes the score, libretti, translations, and more. This site also includes two thoughtful tributes to Sir Georg Solti, to whose memory The Ring Disc is dedicated.
Information on the great opera composers and their works (including pictures and recommended recordings), singers (by voice type), conductors, and more. Real Audio and WAV files, interesting anecdotes.
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/1523/callas.htm
http://www.on-luebeck.de/~cdammann/Bernd_Weikl.html
http://www.borlange.se/kultur/jussib/enjussib.htm
http://classicalmus.com/artists/ghiaurov.html
http://www.classicalmus.com/bmgclassics/opera/
http://www.kwf.org/works/m2main.html
http://php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti/
http://www.china-pages.com/culture/jj_home.htm
http://www.cam.org/~s_lynch/mwoshome.htm