Music Library

Opera, Music Theatre

Discover on site at the Music Library
There is a vintage collection, unbound but boxed and readily browsable, of musicals in piano-vocal scores.
There are also many open stack bound scores and recordings in the library's online catalog. To construct a comprehensive search for these in the online catalog, set the search term to Subject: musicals, or, Subject: operas.

Italian Opera
Editing and publication projects, including full midi files, of previously unpublished or newly-edited music chiefly by Italian composers; includes operas and symphonies as well as other vocal and instrumental forms; site founded and continued by musicologists Anna Trombetta and Luca Bianchini, c1996 - , participants and collaborators invited.

Metropolitan Opera
Click on Met History to obtain access to the MetOpera Database which contains complete statistics for every Metropolitan Opera performance and includes hundreds of photographs and reviews.  The Discover Opera link allows you to search the "stories of the operas" by composer or title.

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is now included in this online version of 'Grove Music.'

Opera
This collection of opera-related links is compiled by the Music Library of the University of Washington. This page is particularly strong in locating current programming and scheduling information.

Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts
Compiled by Lyle Neff, c1995 - ; provides links to texts, reference works, synopses, bibliographies, schedules, and many other opera-related sites.

Televised Opera and Comedy Database
" Developed in association with the Indiana University Digital Library Program , the Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States. The database traces performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video. "