LibGuides: Music Research Guide: Opera

Opera Reference (Print)

Reference books to assist you in looking up names, dates and places of all things opera!

Operatic Libretti by Nico Castel
Call Number: REF ML48.F74 – ML49.P83
A whole series of libretti translations in IPA and other quality translations.

Web Resources

Opera Glass
Stanford Opera Page

Music Online: Opera in Video
TCU subscription database of opera performances, instruction and documentaries. Watch a performance online!
Productions of operas filmed and preserved, documentaries, classic roles performed by legend performers in this ASP database. Baker, Pavarotti, Te Kanawa, Domingo in venues such as San Francisco, La Scala and Salzburg. The only drawback to this database, no Metropolitan Opera productions. However, those are available in the database Met Opera on Demand

Mango Languages
Language software to help you get the hang of that Italian aria or German Lied!
Dallas Opera
Website for the Dallas Opera
Fort Worth Opera
Website for the FW Opera
Fanfaire.com
Fun Classical music webzine that celebrates all things classical music.

Opera Databases

Helpful opera related subscription databases!

Met Opera on Demand: Student Access
Met Opera performances!

Opera Journals (Print and Electronic)

Opera specific journals you should know and use to be current in opera world! These are available either in print or electronically. Search as "journal" format in the catalog.

Classical Singer

Opera Journal

Opera News

Opera

Opera Quarterly

Opera Print Resources (Non Reference)

Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Opera by Mervyn Cooke
Call Number: ML1700 .C17 2005
Insightful essays commissioned from practitioners and scholars of opera history, production and performance.
First Nights At The Opera by Thomas Kelly
Call Number: ML1720 .K45 2004
A behind-the-scenes look at the premieres of five extraordinary operas:Handel's Giulio Cesare (London, 1724), Mozart's Don Giovanni (Prague, 1787), Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots (Paris, 1836), Wagner's Das Rheingold (Bayreuth, 1876), and Verdi's Otello (Milan, 1887).
American opera by Elise Kirk
Call Number: ML1711 .K56 2001
Readable history of American opera, its development and outside influences.
Opera, The Extravagant Art by HS Lindberger
Call Number: ML1700 .L56 1984
Discusses the formal relations between opera and drama, aesthetics, the portrayal of opera in novels, and cultural attitudes toward opera
Demented: the World of the Opera Diva by Ethan Mordden
Call Number: ML1700 .M7 1990
It is what the title says it is...
Changing the Score: arias, prima donnas, and the authority of performance by Hillary Poriss
Call Number: ML1733.4 .P67 2009
Just what the title says...
Showtime by Larry Stempel
Call Number: ML1711.8 .N3 S73 2010
History of Broadway musicals in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself--beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849 to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent.

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