Opera guide offers a brief history of opera, an essay by Joe Stevenson, and a list of the most frequently accessed opera artists at AMG.
Find links to commercial sites, periodicals, libretti, and synopses and analyses of various operas. Also has performance schedules.
Navigate Bob's opera categories, such as operas, opera people and significant French operas. Also has an archive of MIDI files.
Provides basic data on opera and opera singers. Find short bios about such composers as Vincenzo Bellini and Giuseppe Verdi, or access links.
Magazine offers information and resources for pros and amateurs, including audition info, chat and forums, and free email.
Offers time-lines, ezines and festival information, as well as alphabetical indexes of composers and artists.
Comprehensive guide features critiques of worldwide productions. Find reviews of related books and CDs, as well as interviews with opera artists.
Learn about this operatic impresario's production credits and famous clients.
Essay on the 250th anniversary of the librettist who worked with Mozart on "Le Nozze di Figaro," "Don Giovanni," and "Cosi Fan Tutte."
Guide to all genres of vocal music provides an index of opera-related links. Find news reports, books, bibliographies and jokes about opera.
Read excerpts from a thesis called The Development of Beijing Opera During the Cultural Revolution in China. Download images of opera performers.
Comprehensive history of the form describes its evolution from the mystery plays of the Middle Ages to its flowering in the baroque era to its trends in the modern world.
Essay by M. Tevfik Dorak details the history of opera beginning with the quasi-dramatic forms of the 16th century, including masques, intermedios, and madrigal cycles.
Lists scores and texts of operas, operettas, musicals, and theater works in English, available for rental from this publisher. Includes Mark Adamo's "Little Women."
Read a history of Italian opera, including a definition of the term, from Rinuccini and Peri's "Euridice," premiered in 1600, to Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana."
Article titled "Berlin and the Arts Under Frederick the Great" discusses the life and career of the architect of the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.
Read a definition of this term that usually refers to the text, as opposed to the score, of a musical stage production.
Learn about the major periods, styles and composers of this style of vocal music, and read about its influences from various European cultures.
Encyclopedia describes the development of this form of musical theater, and mentions the composers who popularized it.
Find out about opera houses in Seattle, Portland, Vancouver and Boise. See what each company has in store this season and the next.
Follow links to learn about composers, performers, opera companies and openings in the opera world. Includes news and reviews.
Resource from Stanford University in California presents an international list of professional and nonprofessional opera companies.
Comprehensive source for the latest in opera around the world. Read articles and reviews of concerts and recordings or listen to selected webcasts.
Opera directory offers concert calendars for various companies. Also find reviews as well as a time-line detailing the history of the genre.
Contains details on opera performers, composers and houses as well as the works themselves.
History of Italian opera divides it, broadly, into two periods, the baroque and the Romantic, with an emphasis on the earlier period.
Profiles the opera and stage director on the tenth anniversary of his death in 1988, commemorated with a concert by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.
Encyclopedia of operas and opera terms covers the genre's composers, arias, major works, conductors, singers and characters.
Chronicles opera in the US, from mid-18th-century performances of Andrew Barton's ballad opera "The Disappointment" to the premiere of "Dead Man Walking."
Follow links to professional opera performers' biographies and discographies. Organized alphabetically.
Overview by Francois R. Velde of opera as performed in France between the years indicated, as well as of recordings of selected works. Connect to concert reviews.
Opera fan offers links to past and present tenors and composers. Click to read some of this site author's articles, or send him an email.
Arthur Intelmann describes video productions, made in the 1980s and '90s, of Offenbach's "La Vie Parisienne" and "La Perichole" and Lehar's "Merry Widow."
Outlines a course on music, its creation, performance, and literature, from the late baroque up to the time of Johann Christian Bach.
Outlines a course on Romantic opera in France and Italy, including the opera buffa of Rossini, grand operas of Meyerbeer, and bel canto works of Donizetti and Bellini.
Experimental prototypes of the ways in which musical scores and recording liner notes might be used in conjunction with sound recordings.
Opera and stage and film director is commemorated on his 75th birthday with a profile that illustrates his approach to directing choral numbers in opera.