About.com Opera
Guide featuring links to selected sites.
http://classicalmusic.about.com/cs/opera/Allexperts Opera Q&A
Volunteer experts answer detailed one-on-one questions about opera. Free.
http://www.allexperts.com/getExpert.asp?Category=1534
Cantolopera - Opera Karaoke
Italian Opera site whose project enables listeners to sing over opera arias instrumental versions, the opera karaoke tracks, using various multimedia supports.
http://www.cantolopera.com/
ChevronTexaco Opera Information Center
Developed by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Includes radio broadcasts, station finder, broadcast news, and an archive in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese with composer and background information, sound clips, and teaching materials.
http://www.operainfo.org/
Culturevulture.net - Opera
Opera reviews, graphics, schedules, links.
http://www.culturevulture.net/Opera/OperaIndex.htm
Kim's Bohemian Opera
Various opera resources and links, with a focus on La Boheme.
http://www.bohemianopera.com
Learn
Educational program of the Arizona Opera includes synopses, biographies, and external links, pronunciation guide, terminology, FAQs, surtitles, lecture series, and Opera for Kids. Internal resources include MP3 audio, MOV video, and PDF study guides.
http://www.azopera.com/learn/
Lorgnon - Travel for the Opera
Specializing in individual trips to opera cities such as Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Milano, Wien and Salzburg.
http://www.lorgnon.com/
MetManiac
Metropolitan Opera broadcasts database including a complete radio/television program list, message board, features, and schedules for future seasons.
http://www.metmaniac.com/
Opera Japonica
Comprehensive coverage of opera in Japan; includes monthly schedules, reviews, interviews, international reports, and multimedia files.
http://www.Operajaponica.org
Opera Reviews @ musicOMH.com
Opera reviews from the Royal Opera House, The Coliseum and Glyndebourne.
http://www.musicomh.com/opera/index.htm
Opera World
List of operas broadcast on television, radio, and the Internet with information and links, distance learning courses, live opera schedule database, mailing list, and links.
http://www.operaworld.com/
Opera-L
Details of the Opera-L mailing list and how to subscribe, plus photos, files and links.
http://www.opera-l.org/
Operabase
News and reviews, performers and artists, opera houses, recordings and web resources, plus booking details, interactive maps, search tools and timelines. [Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
http://operabase.com/en/
OperadiO.com
Seven live radio channels on the internet of the best opera and classical music.
http://www.operadio.com
OperaGlass
Includes libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses and discographies plus pictures and background information. Extensive links to composers, librettists, operas, opera companies and opera people. From Stanford University.
http://opera.stanford.edu/
Operanet
Opera news, features, opera reviews, interviews of leading opera stars and directors, opera CD reviews, the 101 best opera CD guide for building the ideal CD collection, extensive opera calendar and reviews by international critics and journalists.
http://www.culturekiosque.com/opera/
Operas and Composers: A Pronunciation Guide
AIFF format sound clips of names of operas and composers being spoken.
http://patriciagray.net/Operahtmls/works.html
Operissimo
Provides a database of performers, composers, compositions, and opera houses.
http://www.operissimo.com/
Sampled Sounds Programming for Opera
Synthetic and sampled sounds programming for opera.
http://www.andreabaggio.com/enhome.html
SoYouWanna: Learn About Opera?
One-page introduction to opera for the novice, with explanations of its history, performers, and classic works.
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/opera/opera.html
Suite101: Opera
Articles, links and discussions about opera.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/opera
The Aria Database
A searchable database of arias. Each aria includes voice part and contextual information; some have sound files and translations.
http://www.aria-database.com/
The Royal Opera: Opera Synopses
On ongoing collection, starting with the 2001/2002 season in London, UK.
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/synopses/
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