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OPERA -- General

• Tom Kaufman's Opera Page (Tom is a tenor fanatic)
• Opera Fan Pages
• Opera and Musical Theatre
• OperaGlass
• Operanet -- an online 'zine on Opera (the site also includes 'zines for Jazz, Rock and other kinds of music and dance)
• Plot Synopses -- From the New York City Opera Site
• OperaWeb - The Black Pearls! -- some truly hilarious sound clips of live operatic "bloopers"
• Timeline of American Opera
• The Opera Critic -- a very useful site that collects reviews from around the world of current prerformances, as well as reviews of CDs, DVDs

   

OPERA -- Composers

• Gaetano Donizetti - Welcome Page
• Early Music Women Composers/ Discography/ Sarah Whitworth's Page
• Giacomo Puccini - Centro Studi
• Wagner Society of New York
  • Monsalvat: The Parsifal Page

   

OPERA -- Conductors

• Wilhelm Furtwängler - a critical discography -- Useful discography of Furtwangler recordings; you can join Furt-L mailing list at this site.
• Alfred Brendel Essay Excerpts - Furtwaengler

   

OPERA -- Plot Summaries

• Opera plot synopses from the NY City Opera Site

   

OPERA -- Companies/Venues/Schedules

• WELCOME TO CARNEGIE HALL
• La Scala - Welcome
• Save La Fenice
• The Metropolitan Opera
• The Opera Schedule Server

   

OPERA -- Singers

• Franco Corelli Home Page
• Russell Oberlin Interview
• Current Biography Yearbook (1960): Russell Oberlin
• Soprano Central! -- a collection of bios, pictures and performing schedules for sopranos (& some mezzos)
• Welcome to Tenorland!

  • Welcome to Tenorland - Richard Tauber
  • The German Fach System -- a useful explanation of the "Fach" system used in German opera houses to categorize voice types

   

PUBLICATIONS -- Including Chat Groups

• Gramophone Magazine
• OperaWeb - Madama Butterfly
• Opera News
• what's in parterre box?

   

INTERNET RADIO

• Opera on the Internet -- a comprehensive guide to listening to radio broadcasts over the internet, including weekly scheduling information for internet opera broadcasts

   

RECORDING LABELS -- Label Sites/Places to Buy Recordings

• Berkshire Record Outlet
• CDNow - Music and CD Guide
• Classical Music - Classical Net - Classical Music
• Lyrichord Discs -- Baroque and Renaissance music
• Music & Arts -- Historic classical recordings
• Opera World: Supplier of Opera on Video.
• http://www.premiereopera.com -- huge assortment of mostly live material offered by Ed Rosen, ranging from recent live realeases on CD to videos and CD-Roms

   

LIEDER -- Sources for Recordings and Words

• Texts of Lieder and Art Songs
• The Aria Database
• Richard Wagner Site -- Site (in English and Italian) provides Midi files of leitmotivs in Wagner operas, libretti in German, with translations into English and Italian.

   

JAZZ

• Marsalis on Music Online Home Page
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive -- this site has lots of great sound clips (in RealAudio format) of early acoustic recordings of the jazz greats

   

OPERETTA & MUSICAL THEATRE

• Gilbert & Sullivan Discography Home Page
• Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page
• Opera and Musical Theatre

   

LYRICS

• Koala's List of Lyrics Sites
• The Lyrics Library - Home Page

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