The following listing includes opera information servers on the Web that we recommend for your additional browsing pleasure. We do not pretend to maintain an exhaustive list of all opera-oriented sites. Additional sites may be suggested for inclusion, but the editors reserve the right to accept or reject such suggestions. The sites listed are strictly educational and informational, providing general information about the world of opera. We regret that we cannot provide links to commercial sites offering goods and services.
Coordinate Sites
The following sites provide the same kinds of information that OperaGlass specializes in, and many links within the pages of OperaGlass are to pages in these sites. Naturally these sites are especially recommended!- Opera Libretti and other Vocal Texts (Lyle Neff)
- Opera of America (Christopher Hapka): American opera composers and their works
- The Opera-L Synopsis Project (Neil Broderick)
- Vox Neapolis: Libretti (Marta Columbro)
- Bob Frone's Opera Page: current performances, links to company sites and fan pages, opera info with concentration on French Opera
- Great Russian Voices (Victor Han): many referenced individually under our fan pages
- OperaResource (Anne Lawson): links to synopses, libretti, pictures, sound clips, opera houses...
- Richard Wagner Homepage (Dirk Meyer)
- Opera Web: synopses, background information, discographies, amusements
- Eduardo Almagro's Kareol: synopses discographies, libretti and translations (español)
- Operaworks: synopses, libretti and English translations
- The Opera Archive (Prof. Clive Brown, Bretton Hall): critical editions and recordings rare works
General Sites
- CORPUS - Coordinated Opera Resource Pages (Mike Gibb): a comprehensive index of opera resources on the net
- Operabase (Mike Gibb): a searchable database of information on opera houses and festivals, and performance schedules, timelines of opera history (some info linking back to this site); multilingual! Also opera reviews (see below).
- The Opera Schedule Server (Tamas Maray): performance schedules, opera houses
- La Scala Archives (a searchable database of operas, artists, composers, librettists, characters, dates and places; the official archive of Teatro alla Scala)
- Classical Music Links (Marco Benedetti): topically organized links (many of the opera-related ones mirror this site)
- American Berlin Opera Foundation: scholarships for study and training at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Dictionaries of Recorded Opera and Opera Arias (Mario Biondi): dates, composers, librettists, sources, recordings, aria titles
- Wilhelm G. Busse's complete Verdi Discography
- CIRPeM - Centro Internazionale di Ricerca sui Periodici Musicali: bibliographic links and information
- Classical Insites: Classical music chat
- OPERA (Albert O. Cordell): research papers, Casa Verdi
- Directory of Musicians (Paul Critser)
- Jane's Opera Page (Jane Susanna Ennis): miscellaneous links, especially to British sites; also links to sources of the Wagner operas
- Richard Wagner Web Site (Kristian Evensen)
- The Aria Database (Robert Glaubitz): a searchable database of aria texts, translations, and sound files
- Singers and Samples (Carlton Higginbotham): Biographical information and sound samples of great opera singers of the past
- Frank Hoof's collection of Opera and Oratorio Libretti
- Sarasota Music Archive (Warren Kahn): recorded music research services
- Tom Kaufman's Bel Canto Page: including information on Mercadante, Pacini, Vaccai, and other composers
- KidsOp Intenrational Operas for children
- Theaterszene Köln
- Nibelheim (Andrea Kirkby): essays, performance reviews (UK)
- John Koopman's A Brief History of Singing from antiquity to the present day
- Classical Net (Dave Lampson): reviews, composer information, links
- Classical Singers' Association (Shigemi Matsumoto): classes, events
- Opera America: home page of this professional association of opera companies, with schedules, information on costume/set/prop rentals, and a personal directory
- Opera-L Archives: postings to the primary opera newsgroup, since 1995
- Operadata: opera performances (current information is free, longer-term and historic info requires subscription)
- Operissimo: a searchable relational database of opera recordings indexed by performers and roles; huge lists of operas and composers
- Opernarchiv: schedules, reviews, news (Deutsch)
- Suzanne Payne's Opera Links: companies, general links
- Operacalli (Alicia Ponce): Efemerides de Opera, Opereta y Zarzuela; extensive calendar of premieres, births, and deaths (English / Español)
- Daring Diva (Gary Poster): lots of useful information for singers
- Manuel Prestamo's Music Links (large collection of opera-related URL's)
- Centro studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca (Michele Girardi)
- Soprano Central (Craig Ross): biographies, pictures, schedules
- Homepage der Deutsche Rossini Gesellschaft
- Sonances: 20th century music (Français, English)
- Casa Musicale Sonzogno: information about the operas they publish
- Stage Agent: information about American opera auditions
- Irish Opera Online (Gary Stephens)
- Richard Strauss Archive (official)
- Tenorland: biographies of great tenors, past & present
- Urpo Tienhaara's Rare Operatic MIDIs
- Richard Wagner Archive (Hannu Salmi)
- Wagner Society of New York
- Wagner Society of Northern California
- Basil Walsh's Michael Balfe Web Site
- Yahoo Opera Page
- Zarzuela Homepage
- Honoria in Ciberspazio: a participatory cyberspace opera under construction
Opera Review Sites
- OperaGlass Reviews: selected reviews of general interest, plus Judy Richter's reviews for the San Francisco Bay Area
- Opera West David Gregson's reviews for Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Fé, and Seattle
- Operabase: Indexed reviews from The Times of London and Corriere della Sera of Milan
Opera E-zines (Electronic Magazines)
- Culturekiosque OperaNet
- FanFaire (classical music, some opera)
- Mundo Clasico (classical music, some opera) [Español]
- Opera at Suite 101
- Opera News Online (Requires paid subscription for full access.)
- OperaWeb:
