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Chinese opera
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interactive operas
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- Auslaender und Staatenlose - an online opera designed to interact with the navigator.
- Brain Opera - Help create the first digital, interactive opera. Contribute musical ideas, play new on-line instruments, and rehearse
for live performances to be broadcast on the web.
- Crazy People Incorporated - on-line musical dealing with Dissociative Identity Dissorder as a result of childhood sexual
abuse.
- Honoria in Ciberspazio - interactive romantic, comic, collaborative cyber-opera developed in the ACTLab at UTAustin.
- Promise - send feedback to the composer on this libretto based on The Ramayana.
- ULURU - Interactive, multicultural CyberOpera, which is in a constant state of continuous creation.
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- Opera Terms - includes sound files.
- Operabase - site featuring searchable database of opera perfomances and artists, festivals, reviews, links, and much more. In
English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
- Operas and Their Composers: A Pronouncing Dictionary - approximately 100 names of operas and their
composers with attached sound files that provide their correct pronunciation.
- Public Domain Opera Libretti - site offers libretti, research resources and much more. Includes opera and
other vocal texts.
- Aria Database - searchable reference of opera arias for both singers and non-singers. Includes voice part, synopsis, MIDI files and
translations into English.
- Bassocantante's Opera Shop - offers biographical sketches, photos and sound clips of singers active before 1950.
- Classical Connections - designed for beginners to advanced lovers of classical music and opera. Includes recommendations,
reviews, and links.
- Daring Diva's Treasure Map - practical aid for adventurous classically trained singers of all levels. Includes large bibliography and art
song catalog.
- GOpera - all about opera, with links to opera houses, Lieder, and other general opera sites.
- Jarrett's Opera Page - with photos and links.
- Literary Expectations - dissertation on the anxiety of text in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English
opera libretti.
- Macallister Awards For Opera Singers - provides information on the awards as well as an application form and opera links.
- Musical On Line - a guide to artists as well as opera companies and orchestras.
- Northwest Opera Schedules - schedule of performances around the world. Also includes links to other opera sites.
- Ooppera Net - provides opera links, focusing on Finland and Germany.
- Opera - reviews of recordings.
- Opera Karaoke - enables the listener to perform the most famous opera arias singing over the MIDI files.
- Opera Notes - Opera material including video reviews.
- Opera of America - information about American opera composers and their works.
- Opera Page - provides basic information about the art and its singers.
- Opera Stamps - on September 10th, 1997, a set of postage stamps honouring American opera singers was officially
issued. The singers were Rosa Ponselle, Richard Tucker, Lily Pons, and Lawrence Tibbett.
- Opera-L Gallery - contains contributors, links, how to subscribe, and archives for the messages.
- OperaData - searchable database of opera productions for both opera goers and professionals with worldwide coverage; updated daily by
the publishers of OperaNow magazine.
- OperaGlass - Database includes performance histories, synopses, libretti, and links to other opera servers.
- Operaphile, The - hosting a comprehensive collection of links as well as an opera message board.
- OperaWeb - a site for Opera lovers direct from Italy, land of the Opera. In Italian and English.
- OPERISSIMO - provides a database of performers, composers, operas, and opera houses.
- Singers Web - an international directory designed to promote young opera singers. The site includes biographical
information and short sound clips.
- Thoughts on the Mission and Future of Opera in Colorado - by Stephen W. Seifert Executive Director of Opera Colorado.
- Voice Definitions and Ranges - discusses the meanings and uses of the names given to high-pitched male voices.
- Zarzuela - informationprovides on the Spanish Lyric Theatre. Includes composer biographies, opera synopses, history, cd
magazine and information sections.
- FM Opera - in Fergus Falls, MN; March 29, 2003; at A Center for the Arts
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- Ash Lawn Opera Festival - in Ash Lawn, Virginia; top quality musical event held each summer
- Beaune Festival International d'Opera Baroque - in Beaune; weekends in July
- Australian Singing Competition - competition for young opera enthusiasts. Some of the past winners are now worldwide opera artists.
- Bayreuther Festspiele, Die - reports, interviews, reviews, and background information in German for the Wagner Festival.
- Covent Garden Festival of Opera and Music Theatre - held annually. Site includes programme, show times, and booking information.
- European Youth Cultural Meeting - bringing together youth to attend opera performances,
workshops and lectures as well as discussions with the artists.
- Glyndebourne - provides information about the performances, history, and box office.
- Irish Opera Online
- Juneau Lyric Opera -- in Alaska
- Les Azuriales Opera Festival - provides information on the performances at the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in Nice.
- Lyric Music Festival of Belle-Ile en Mer
- Salzburger Festspiele / Salzburg Festival - in Salzburg; July 26 - August 1, 2008; opera, drama,
concerts; often described as the greatest and most important festival in the world
- Wexford Opera Festival - annual event. Check site for programme.
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museums
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directories
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- Sleeping Discreditation With Opera Tree - provides a comprehensive resource for fans of opera and professionals alike -
while at the same time having fun!
- Operas@
- Operabase directory
- Aria Database Links
- Artists Index - provides links to great classical performers.
- Coordinated Opera Resource Pages (CORPUS) - lists composers, operas, companies, festivals, magazines, and more.
- Historic Opera Images - provides calendar listing and images.
- Hyperion Artists - lists artists, including discographies, photos and more.
- Keith's OperaInfo
- Michael's Opera Links - includes singers, companies, and links to general opera topics.
- Nick's Vocal Music and Opera Links
- Ooppera Net - provides opera links, focusing on Finland and Germany.
- Opera Companies On the Web
- Opera People - lists home pages of professionals in the opera world.
- OperaGlass - offers links to performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies, pictures, and more.
- SingerList - offers a list of vocalist links.
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operas
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- Opera Synopses - from New York City Opera.
- Berlioz' Faust - contains notes on the original story, treatment by other composers, and the plot Berlioz
used.
- Bertozzi Parma: Giuseppe Verdi - in Italian.
- Bizet's Carmen - offers information and suggested reading.
- Carlota, the Grand Opera - the story of the tragic last Emperor and Empress of Mexico.
- Casa Verdi - offers information on the life and music.
- Central Park - details the creation of this new commission. offers composer/librettist interviews, singer discussions, director
inspirations, and an interactive forum.
- Cronaca Del Luogo (Chronicle of the Place) - a new opera composed by Luciano Berio for Hildegard Behrens.
- Einstein on the Beach - an opera by Glass. Includes text, pictures, and sound clips.
- Fidelio Background - information on Beethoven's opera Fidelio, written by the Beethoven specialist, the conductor
Otto Klemperer.
- Flamen - provides information on the opera by Erwin Schulof.
- Frederick Hohenzollern - three-act opera by Larry Corse and Brad Fairchild premieres in June, 1999.
- Great Performances: Parsifal: The Search for the Grail - learn about Wagner's creation of Parsifal, read an interview with
filmmaker and stage director Tony Palmer, and take a tour of the historic Kirov Theater.
- I Puritani - by Bellini.
- La Boheme - by Puccini.
- La Juive - provides information on the opera by Jacques Halevy.
- La Traviata - by Verdi.
- La Traviata [operapak] - by Verdi.
- Librettos by Gene Tyburn - offers new libretti for Shakespeare's Othello and for Antony and Cleopatra, in rhyming
couplets.
- Making of Rigoletto - The Rhodes College History of Opera class created this Web documentary about Opera
Memphis' production of Rigoletto.
- Marduk: A Ritual Opera
- Mourning Becomes Electra - by Marvin David Levy.
- Norma - by Bellini.
- Patience and Sarah - by Paula Kimper and Wendy Persons, based on the novel by Isabel Miller. Ticket information provided.
- Porgy and Bess
- Rigoletto - by Verdi.
- Ring Cycle
- Streetcar Named
Desire, A
- Turandot
- Willows by the Western Gate, The - offers the complete libretto of an opera based on an ancient Chinese love story.
- Yossele Solovey - world-premiere opera performed by Lowell House Opera Company, Harvard University. March 10-21, 1999.
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magazines
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- Classical Singer Community - offers career information and more.
- culturekiosque operanet - CD reviews, festivals, interviews, articles, and 101 best operas list.
- Mapleson's Opera Magazine - contains short reviews and descriptions of operatic eating and drinking.
- OPERA - contains news, letters, interviews, profiles, reviews of performances from around the world and a diary section giving listings for
all major opera-houses and forthcoming season programmes.
- Opera Now - provides news, reviews, profiles of established and up-and-coming artists, biographical features on legendary
singers of the century, detailed historical guides to the current repertory, video and audio reviews, full-colour First Night reviews from around the world and listings of performance details, cast
lists and advance booking information for major opera houses.
- OPERANEWS - offers information on opera at the Metropolitan and elsewhere, including interviews, reviews and more.
- parterre box - Queer opera zine including news, reviews, humor and gossip with a queer edge.
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tours
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