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Opera Index
A B Bellini Bizet C D Donizetti E F G Gounod H L M Mozart N O Opera Houses Puccini R S.V Verdi W Wagner

Opera Singers Index

Opera Reviews, News, Blogs, Criticism

Opera news and reviews from Google news feeds.
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MusicOMH.com
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Das Opernglas
The german opera journal.
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Opera Active
Opera news, notes, performances and interviews, in German.
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Opera Chic
The popular Milan-based opera blog.
Opera Chic's fearless, funky-fresh reporting"
'Alex Ross, The New Yorker'
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The Opera Critic
Reviews, articles, webcasts, opera companies. An international site based in New Zealand, by Michael Sinclair.
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Opera Japonica
A Tokyo-based website with world coverage of opera. International news, reviews and reports.
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Opera News
The latest in-depth features, interviews, recordings and performance reviews, covering the art form in the United States and around the world.
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Live opera and music reviews
from Guardian Unlimited Music.
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News about opera,
including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Opera Magazine, U.K
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La Scena Musicale
The online classical music journal.

INDEX OF OPERA WEBSITES

African opera

African Music Encyclopedia
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Cape Town Opera

Arena di Verona, Italy.
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The Aria Database
Over 1000 operatic arias, with texts and translations.
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Articles on classical music.
Music and Vision
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B

Bellini

Bellini, Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco.
Bellini life, works, pictures, operas. Karadar.net.
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Vincenzo Bellini
Biography, I puritani, Adelson e Salvini.
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Vincenzo Bellini. Operas, references.
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Vincenzo Bellini. Wikipedia entry.

Bizet

Bizet, Georges. Georges Bizet's Carmen.
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Georges Bizet
Life and background.
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Georges Bizet
List of works, pictures.

Blogs

Opera Chic
'I'm a young American woman living in Milan, and you're not. I go to La Scala a lot, and you don't.'

Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.
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C

Chinese opera.
The Illuminated Lantern. Revealing the heart of Asian opera and cinema.
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Classical singer community.
Classicalsinger.com. Opera singing. Audition listings, competition listings, singer directory, performance directory and online classical music magazine.
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Composers

American composers of opera.
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Composers
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Composers of opera.
A comprehensive web directory from The Open Directory Project.
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Composers of opera. OperaGlass

Covent Garden, London (The Royal Opera House).
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Criticism
See above

Criticism. Opera Critic
Reviews, articles, features, webcasts.

Dead Man Walking, by Jake Heggie.

Jake Heggie's website.

Deutsche Oper, Berlin.
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Deutsche Grammophon
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Donizetti

Donizetti, Domenico Gaetano Maria
A Gaetano Donizetti website.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Operas by Gaetano Donizetti.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Bühnenwerke in der chronologischen Folge ihrer Entstehung.

E

Early recordings of opera singers. Marston Records
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EMI Classics Artists Catalogue
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English National Opera
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F

La Fenice Opera, Venice (Il Teatro la Fenice)
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Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
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Forums

Operafreaks.com
Opera General Forums. Opera general forums and community.

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera
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Gounod

Charles Gounod
Detailed biography, pictures and portraits, list of works, discography.
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Charles Gounod
Wikipedia article with photograph, summary of life and works, references to related people and topics.
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Charles Gounod
Biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of operatic, religious, orchestral, and vocal works, and Naxos discography.
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Charles Gounod
Filmography noting films and TV programs (IMDb).
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Gounod
Portrait, works and recordings.
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Gounod's Faust

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Hamburgische Staatsoper
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Houses and companies (see also alphaetical list this page and next)

Opera houses and companies.
Opera houses and companies around the world, a web directory from The Open Directory Project.
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List of opera houses, from Wikipedia.
Opera houses are listed by continent, then by country with the name of the opera house and city.

Bayreuther Festspiele
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La Fenice Opera, Venice (Il Teatro la Fenice)
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Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
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Opéra National de Paris
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Royal Opera House
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The Metropolitan Opera
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Teatro alla Scala
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Wiener Staatsoper

Hyperion Records, U.K.
Hyperion art song catalogue, biographies, discographies.

Japanese opera.
Opera Japonica. A Tokyo-based website with world coverage of opera. International news, reviews and reports are included together with information about the rapidly developing opera world in Japan.
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K

Kirov Opera, St Petersburg (Mariinsky Theatre).
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L

Light Opera

Gilbert and Sullivan
The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. Numerous links to Gilbert and Sullivan web sites.
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Guide to Light Opera and Operetta

Los Angeles Opera
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M

Metropolitan Opera, New York.
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Mozart

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
The Mozart Project. Internet resources, images, audio.
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Opera Glass: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Chronological list of operas, some with libretti.
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Die Zauberflöte
Comprehensive synopsis. Kelly McDonald, Stanford University.
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The Mozart Page

National Theatre, Prague.
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New York Metropolitan Opera
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News

The Opera Critic
Reviews, articles, webcasts, opera companies. An international site based in New Zealand, by Michael Sinclair.
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Opera news and reviews from Google news feeds.

Opera Active
Opera news, notes, performances and interviews, in German.
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Opera America -
a service organization for opera. Schedules, education, databases, news.
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Opera Companies on the Web
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Opera Composers.
More than 100 well-known and lesser- known or obscure opera composers.
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Opera Critic
Reviews, articles, features, webcasts. An international site based in New Zealand, by Michael Sinclair.
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Opera Glass
An opera information server where you can get detailed information, including: libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies.
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Opera houses and companies around the world.
Open Directory Project
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Opera Japonica
A Tokyo-based website with world coverage of opera. International news, reviews and reports are included together with information about the rapidly developing opera world in Japan. Opera Japonica features original work by a team of writers located around the globe.
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Opera libretti.
Full index of major opera libretti. Plot synopses, full libretti, source texts, performance histories, roles, background.
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Opera Magazine, U.K
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Opera singers

Opera singers
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Opera singer fan pages.
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Home Pages of people professionally connected with opera.
Web pages which have been provided either by the individuals themselves or by their agencies.
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Open Directory Project web index of opera singers.

Opera synoposes and libretti.
The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Turandot, Le Nozze di Figaro, Eugene Onegin, Aida, La Bohème, Otello, Così fan Tutte, Tosca, The Magic Flute, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and others.
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Operas by name / opera composer: an index.
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P

Paris Opera. Opéra National de Paris
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Philadelphia Opera Company
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Puccini

Puccini, Giacomo
Giacomo Puccini. Centro Studie
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Puccini biography.
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Puccini operas and synopses.
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Puccini. Classical Music Pages
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Pucciini. Karadar.net
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Tosca libretto, information, background.

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Reviews

Reviews, articles, features, webcasts, first nights, programmes.
The Opera Critic

Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative
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Royal Danish Opera
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Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm. S
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Salzburger Festspiele, Austria.
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La Scala, Milano.
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Singers. Opera singers
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Wikipedia encyclopedia entry on opera and opera singers.

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