Related Links

Links checked 02/12/2013

Some great resources

Operabase Over the past ten years, Operabase has collected an extensive archive of 155,000 opera performances (over 20,000 artists), created powerful and flexible search and listing tools for accessing that data, and developed multilingual software for doing this in 7 languages.

Oberlin Opera Resources an amazing set of links for the opera singer. 

Opera Companies

• USA opera companies
• Canadian Opera Companies

Schools and Resources

• Peterson's List of Schools offering Music Degrees
• 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 online)
• 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 online
• Mozart scores online
• Bach scores online
• 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 amout of background info 
• Baroque Libretti   A few early libretti
• Karadar's Classical Music World - Biographies, MP3s, libretti, photos, midi, Lieder texts

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  
• Robokopp a large collection of PD texts. No translations.
• Choral Texts collected by Joachim Vogelsänger

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 (with 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 - full featured, quick online dictionary.
• Your Dictionary - English
• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
• The Newbury House Dictionary of American English English with IPA
• Resources for Translators
• OneLook Dictionary  12,739,111 words in 1065 dictionaries

MIDI and such

• Classical MIDI Archives
• The Aria Database

Music to buy

• Schubertline instant online sheet music of lieder, songs and arias which may be viewed, played and printed in any key.
• Make Music.com more online sheet music to download.
• CD Sheetmusic All the arias you will every need plus Schubert songs and now even all the Verdi and Wagner vocal scores on CD-Rom. 
• Classical Vocal Reprints
• Schirmer Library of Musical Classics
• Alfred Vocal Music
• The Sheet Music Store
• The Full Pitcher Music Resources  Publisher of sheet music and Scorchfiles (for online printing), with ideas for improvisation, easy music for beginners, resources for schools/teachers, including special needs support.
• Virtual Sheet Music  Classical Sheet Music Downloads. Selected scores for piano, violin and other instruments ready to download.

Music to hear and see

• The Virtual Gramophone an extensive collection of early recordings (re-mastered) featuring Canadian artists. Listen for free.
• Kultur.com  Arts video