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My parents told me I liked to sing right from the time I was born -- which
may be a nice way of saying I yelled a lot -- so it is no surprise that I
ended up studying voice too. My mom's mother taught me many French songs.
(She and my mother were both French and we spoke French at home.) I became
a member of my church choir as well as school choral groups. I was blessed
with a fairly attractive wide-ranging soprano as a boy. When my voice broke,
I ended up with a rather pedestrian baritone. Nowadays I only sing in
the shower or late at night when I'm programming and no one except my cat
can hear me.
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General Opera Sites
- All hail La Stupida!
- Autumn Leaf Performance - SONiC BOOM
- Bob's Navigation Page
hy Robert Frone offers a wide variety of opera-related pages,
including a series dedicated to Massenet's operas and another
to significant French operas. Includes general opera
commentary, opera links, and opera companies on the web.
- Contemporary A Cappella Society of America
- Countdown, An Opera for the Nuclear Age
- Cyberspace Opera
is "the first and most wonderful opera about love on the
net."
- Dave Leverton's Virtual Opera House
offers a light-hearted introduction about what to listen to
and what to avoid, suggested recordings, anecdotes and a look
at the state of opera in South Africa.
- Farinelli
describes the techniques used in the movie about Carlo
Broschi (called Farinelli) to reproduce the voice of this
castrato.
- For the record
offers opera recordings reviews.
- Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page
- Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston
- History of Opera, Music 121, Rhodes College
- Jesus Christ Superstar
by Tim Hockin and Jeff Lovell offers information on this
popular rock opera.
- Keith Moulton's Personal Singing Page
- Mario Biondi's Opera Dictionary
in English and Italian offers an excellent list of recordings
with artists, conductors, dates, etc.
- Musical On Line
offers a resource for locating professional musicians and
companies, including vocal and instrumental artists, opera
companies and orchestra, composers, and conductors.
- Nerd World : OPERA
offers annotated links to opera-related web sites.
- On Broadway
- Opera
by Albert O. Cordell.
- Opera
is the home page to an academic course at Edinboro University
of Pennsylvania. Includes a bibliography, opera abstracts,
lecture topics, reviews of opera recordings, and more.
- Opera America
is an opera advocacy group which strives "to promote opera as
exciting and accessible to individuals from all walks of
life."
- Opera Factory
- Opera House
offers a history of the Opera Garnier of Paris, extracted
from the book The Complete Phantom of the
Opera by George Perry.
- Opera in Ireland
by Gary Stephens provides a comprehensive schedule of
upcoming performances, information about Irish operatic
composers and singer, and general opera links.
- Opera in Munich
offers a brief introduction to Opera in Munich and includes a
persoanl account of the summer opera and music scene by
Gabriel Kuper.
- Opera in the Muse
- Opera Index
- Opera on the Web
by Suzanne Payne offers a list of opera companies and links
to opera-related web sites.
- Opera Schedule Server
- Opera World
is a mail-order company dedicated to opera. Offers a 48-page
color catalog containing over 800 opera items.
- Operabase Index
offers a database of 300 opera houses and festivals.
Includes tools which allow you to search opera schedules by
any combination of date, composer, title, or location.
- OperaGlass
by Rick Bogart offers performance histories, synopses,
libretti, discographies, pictures, links to opera companies,
and more.
- OperaStuff
by keith Moulton lists opera resources on the Internet.
- OperaWeb
offers a wealth of information about opera, including
schedules for a number of opera houses, reviews of recent
opera performances and CDS, and more.
- parterre box: the queer opera zine
by James Jorden is an online version of this print magazine
which offers a look at the world of opera from a gay
perspective.
- Readings and Opera
by Mario Biondi.
- RISM Libretto Project
- Richard Wagner Archive
- Savoy Operas
- Tales of Tessi Tura
- Wagner's Ring Cycle Page
by Stacy Nowicki offers libretti, synopses, and background
for these operas.
- Welcome to Tenorland!
by Michael J., Cochran is dedicated to the great tenor voices
in history. Offers biographies, photos, sound clips, and
links to related web sites. Also provides a contact list of
tenors.
- Wotan's (Andrew Higgins) Opera Pages
Individual Artists and Cooperatives
- Artist Information from Sony
offers an alphabetized list of Sony artists including opera
singers.
- Bruce Schoonmaker's Home Page
describes his work as a baritone, voice teacher, actor, and
stage director.
- Chon Wolson
- Countdown: an opera for the nuclear age, by Christopher Yavelow and Laura Harrington
- Edita Gruberova fan page
by Katalin Szabo offers a discography, list of stage roles,
future performance calendar, and news about this soprano.
- Henry Pleas - Tenor
received his Master's Degree in Music from Northwestern
University.
- Jussi Björling
by Eric Schwartz offers a biography and discography of this
great Swedish tenor (1911-1960).
- Kasper Holten - opera director
- Kiri Te Kanawa
by Craig Ross presents a biography (with pictures) of the
soprano.
- Lucy Schaufer - Mezzo-soprano
was graduated from Northwestern University.
- Northwest Artists Cooperative
"was formed in 1993 to promote established vocal and
instumental performers from the Pacific Northwest. Each of the
listed artists enjoys an active performing career throughout
the United States, Canada and several Pacific Rim countries."
This cooperative includes Janeanne Houston, Ellen McLain,
Louise Marley, Zoila Munoz, Marc Acito, Michael Kahl, Michael
Delos, and Paul Linnes.
- Priscilla Gale - Soprano
offers her resume, performance history, and reviews.
- The Rosa Ponselle Foundation Homepage
web page has been established to help celebrate the centenary
of this famous soprano.
Opera companies, houses, festival, and support groups
- Amato Opera Theatre
is located in New York's East Village. Site offers
information on the current season. In addition to full-scale
productions, the company offers a series of "family-oriented
programs called Operas-In-Brief which are intended to acquaint
fledgling operagoers, children and adults alike, to their
first operatic experience."
- Atlanta Opera
offers information on the current season, a mailing list, and
an opera glossary.
- Arena di Verona
in Verona, Italy offers information on the current season and
a photogallery from past performances.
- Barre Opera House
offers information about this historic central Vermont opera
house, built in 1892.
- Bayerische Staatsoper | Bayerisches Staatsballet
offers information (in German) on the current season.
- Beijing Opera
by Xu-Ming Wang offers information on this institution which
has existed for over 300 years.
- Bel Canto Opera
brings opera into the Gloucestershire, United Kingdom area.
Specializes in smaller, non-chorus-orientated works.
- Berkshire Opera Company
offers information about the current season. The company was
founded in 1985 and is located in Great Barrington,
Massachusetts. It is the only professional opera company in
Massachusetts to perform in the summer season. It is
dedicated to producing fully-staged productions that are sung
in English.
- Boise Opera
- Boston Rock Opera
, founded in 1993, seeks to present revivals of rock opera and
concept rock.
- Brain Opera
is billed as "an interactive, musical journey into your mind,
to be presented simultaneously in physical and cyber space."
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
offers information on its current season. Presents theater,
dance, music, and opera from around the world.
- Dallas Opera
offers information on the performance schedule, membership,
and more.
- Festspielnachrichten Bayreuth
is an online magazine (in German) dedicated to the Bayreuth
Festival.
- Florida Grand Opera
offers information on the current season.
- Furman University Opera Theater
casts only students in opera roles. All performances are
sung in English.
- Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, NY
offers information on the current season.
- Goteborg Opera
offers information on the current season.
- Gran Teatre Del Liceu
describes the current season of this company located in
Barcelona, Spain.
- Hamburgische Staatsoper
offers information (in German) on the current season.
- Houston Grand Opera
offers information on the current season as well as the
history of the company. Also includes information on the
Houston Opera Studio.
- Huntsville Opera Theater
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- La Scala, Milan
describes the current season and the history of the theatre.
Provides a huge searchable database of information on opera
performances at La Scala since 1953 (earlier performances are
added as time permits).
- Le Palais Garnier
is a masterpiece of 19th century architecture.
- Light Opera Works
of Chicago, which performs in Northwestern University's Cahn
Auditorium, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
presenting full-scale productions of operetta and musical
theatre.
- Los Angeles Music Theatre Company
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
offers information on the current season.
- Lyric Opera of Kansas City
offers information on the current season, education programs,
past operas, the opera guild, opera trips, and more.
- Metropolitan Opera
of New York's official home page offers information on the
current season, broadcasts, membership, quizzes, Met history,
and more.
- Metropolitan Opera Guild
was founded in 1935 to provide financial support for the
Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The Guild also sponsors
matinee performances for students as well as in-house programs
in some 400 schools.
- Monmouth Civic Chorus
in New Jersey, USA occasionally presents operas such as
Mozart's "Magic Flute".
- Nantes Graslin Opera
theatre was built by Jean-Joseph-Louis Graslin and Mathurin
Crucy in 1788.
- New Israeli Opera
offers information on the current season, the history of the
company, links to other opera sites, and more.
- New Orleans Opera
offers information on the company's current season as well as
the history of opera in New Orleans.
- New York City Opera Online
offers information on the current season, memberships, an
online library of synopses and biographies, and links to other
opera-related sites.
- New York Grand Opera
has been presenting free opera in New York City for 23 years.
Currently the company is in the midst of a seven-year
(1993-2001) cycle of presenting all 28 of Giuseppe Verdi's
operas.
- Northwest Opera Schedules
offers schedules for companies in the Northwestern United
States and Canada.
- Norwegian Opera
offers information on the current season.
- Oper der Stadt Koln
- Opera companies: Australia
offers a list of opera houses in Australia.
- Opera de la Bastille
is located in Paris, France. Includes information on current
opera and ballet performances.
- Opera de Marseille
in Marseille, France offers information on the company and
its current season as well as links to other opera sites.
- Opera Delaware Home Page
provides information on its current season.
- Opera Factory
"is committed to divesting opera of its grand and elitist
image and to re-establishing it as a genuinely popular art
form. Opera Factory places as much emphasis on drama as
musicianship." Offers information on the company and its
current season.
- Opera Garnier
is located in Paris, France.
- Opera League of New Hampshire
- Opera Memphis
- Opera Music Theater Institute
is "dedicated to the international showcasing of opera and
music theater through major performances, conferences,
competitions and training programs for artists, managers, and
cultural officials in a nonpartisan effort to encourage
renewed interest in cultural exchanges and cultural
diplomacy."
- Opera Pacific
, located in Orange County, California, offers information on
its current season.
- Opéras de Monpellier
in Montpellier, France operates two theatres:
l'Opéra-Comedie and l'Opéra Berlioz.
- Orlando Opera Company
offers news and information on this Florida-based company.
- Pegasus Opera Company
"exists in order to promote the development of young
professional singers of all nationalities. It aims to provide
a high quality, high calibre, multi-racial platformfor these
singers to develop and to perform their art."
- Prism Opera
- Salzburg Festival
offers information on the operas, plays, and concerts of the
current season.
- San Diego Opera
offers information on the company's season as well as
membership information, educational activities, and more.
- San Francisco Opera
- Santa Fe Opera
offers information on the current season and the company.
- Sarasota Opera
offers information on the company's performance calendar, the
opera house itself, and the Sarasota Youth Opera.
- Seattle Opera's 1996 | 97 Season
offers details on the company's current season.
- Swedish Folkopera
offers information on the company in Swedish and English.
- Sydney Opera House
offers general and performance information for this
Australian opera house.
- Tacoma Opera
- Teatro Colón
in Buenos Aires, Argentina offers information on the company
and its current season.
- Teatro Municipal de Santiago
in Chile lists its current operatic performance schedule.
- Tulsa Opera
in Tulsa, Oklahoma offers information the current season as
well as some useful tips about watching and enjoying opera
performances.
- Utah Festival Opera Company
offers information on the current season.
- Vancouver Opera
offers information on the company and its current season.
- Village Light Opera Group of New York City
, founded in 1935, features broadway hits and light opera
classics (including Gilbert and Sullivan).
- Washington Opera
is the official home page of this company located in
Washington, D.C. The company is under the directorship of
Placido Domingo.
- Welsh National Opera Performances at the Bristol Hippodrome
- West Bay Opera
- Wielki Theatre and National Opera
is located in Warsaw is one of the most imporant opera and
ballet theatres in Poland.
- Wiener Staatsoper/ Wiener Volksoper
provides the history of the company and offers information on
its current season.
- Wolf Trap
offers information on the history and current season of the
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna,
Virginia.
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