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OPERA -- General

• Tom Kaufman's Opera Page (Tom is a tenor fanatic)
• Opera Fan Pages
• Opera and Musical Theatre
• OperaGlass
• Operanet -- an online 'zine on Opera (the site also includes 'zines for Jazz, Rock and other kinds of music and dance)
• Plot Synopses -- From the New York City Opera Site
• OperaWeb - The Black Pearls! -- some truly hilarious sound clips of live operatic "bloopers"
• The Opera Critic -- a very useful site that collects reviews from around the world of current performances, as well as reviews of CDs, DVDs
• Sparafucile's Opera Links

OPERA -- Composers

• Gaetano Donizetti - Welcome Page
• Early Music Women Composers/ Discography/ Sarah Whitworth's Page
• Giacomo Puccini - Centro Studi
• Wagner Society of New York
  • Joe's Wagner-discography
  • Monsalvat: The Parsifal Page

OPERA -- Conductors

• Wilhelm Furtwängler - a critical discography -- Useful discography of Furtwangler recordings; you can join Furt-L mailing list at this site.
• Alfred Brendel Essay Excerpts - Furtwaengler

OPERA -- Plot Summaries

• Opera plot synopses from the NY City Opera Site

OPERA -- Companies/Venues/Schedules

• WELCOME TO CARNEGIE HALL
• La Scala - Welcome
• The Metropolitan Opera
• The Opera Schedule Server

OPERA -- Singers

• Franco Corelli Home Page
• Franco Corelli Discography of Opera Performances (.pdf) -- a comprehensive discography of both commercial and private "pirate" recordings
• Giuseppe Di Stefano performance chronology (.pdf)
• Russell Oberlin Discography
• Leontyne Price "Voice of the Century" -- a site devoted to the voice and artistry of Leontyne Price
• Soprano Central! -- a collection of bios, pictures and performing schedules for sopranos (& some mezzos)

PUBLICATIONS -- Including Chat Groups

• Gramophone Magazine
• The Record Collector -- an invaluable source of biographical and discographical information on opera singers
• Opera News
• what's in parterre box?

INTERNET RADIO

• Operacast.com - Opera on the Internet -- a comprehensive guide to listening to radio broadcasts over the internet, including weekly scheduling information for internet opera broadcasts

RECORDING -- CD-Rs

• Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ

RECORDING LABELS -- Label Sites/Places to Buy Recordings

• Berkshire Record Outlet
• CDNow - Music and CD Guide
• Classical Music - Classical Net - Classical Music
• Lyrichord Discs -- Baroque and Renaissance music
• Music & Arts -- Historic classical recordings
• Opera World: Supplier of Opera on Video.
• http://www.premiereopera.com -- huge assortment of mostly live material offered by Ed Rosen, ranging from recent live realeases on CD to videos and CD-Roms
• CNET's Guide to Online-Music Stores -- a handy guide to where to shop for music to download to your portable player

LIEDER -- Sources for Recordings and Words

• Texts of Lieder and Art Songs
• The Aria Database
• Richard Wagner Site -- Site (in English and Italian) provides Midi files of leitmotivs in Wagner operas, libretti in German, with translations into English and Italian.

JAZZ

• The Red Hot Jazz Archive -- this site has lots of great sound clips (in RealAudio format) of early acoustic recordings of the jazz greats

OPERETTA & MUSICAL THEATRE

• Gilbert & Sullivan Discography Home Page
• Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page

GENERAL MUSIC LINK SITES

• http://www.dotones.com/links/index.html