Music: General

OPERABASE

• Operabase Operabase has collected an extensive archive of more than 500,000 opera performances (over 100,000 artists), created powerful and flexible search and listing tools for accessing that data, and developed multilingual software in multiple languages.

OPERA COMPANIES

• Opera companies by location

SCHOOLS AND RESOURCES

• The College Music Society Home Page
• Opera America
• National Opera Association
• The Classical Singer 

LIBRARIES AND ONLINE SCORES

• IMSLP Petrucci Music Library  Wiki Scores
• Online Scores Indiana University’s opera and art song scores
• Levy Sheet Music 29,000 pieces of popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. Music published before 1923 is available online
• Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music (online scores)

• Händel scores
• Mozart scores
• Bach scores
• Project Gutenberg
• Indiana University Library
• Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Library

OPERA PLOTS AND LIBRETTI

• Rick Bogart’s Opera Glass A great site including a large amount of background info
• Baroque Libretti  A few early libretti

SONG TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS

• Aria Database – Main Index
• Texts of Lieder and Art Songs  This is “the” source of song texts. Many with poetic translations but no IPA
• Lieder of the 20th century A list of compositions
• Bach Cantatas Website
• Musica International The virtual choral library.

REFERENCE

• The New Grove Dictionary of Opera This online version is very expensive – $150 a year – you can try it free for 24 hours.
• RISM-US Homepage  contains a catalog of libretti

TRANSLATORS

• Google Translate
• Babel Fish by Yahoo
• IM Translator  This is a very useful tool
• German dictionary A great user-created dictionary
• French Dictionary from TV5Monde  A full featured, quick online dictionary
• Your Dictionary English version
• Travlang’s Translating Dictionaries
• The Newbury House Dictionary of American English English with IPA
• OneLook Dictionary  12,739,111 words in 1065 dictionaries
• www.dictionary.net  Definitions, rhymes, quotes and idioms

MIDI AND SUCH

• Classical MIDI Archives
• The Aria Database

MUSIC TO HEAR AND SEE

• The Virtual Gramophone An extensive collection of early recordings (re-mastered) featuring Canadian artists
• Kultur Arts video

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