Bärenreiter-Verlag

Although it's not practical to purchase those beautiful blue scores directly from Bärenreiter, they have a very informative website. I happen to know that Glendower Jones at Classical Vocal Repertoire has most of the vocal catalog in stock and at reduced prices. So, after you've perused the Bärenreiter website and decided what you want, you can zing an email to Glendower and have it on your doorstep in a few days.

Byron Hoyt

For all you West Coasters, here's a San Francisco-based music store. They don't have an online database of their inventory, but you can order from them online.

Carl Fischer

Here at the website for the publishing house Carl Fischer, you can search or browse their entire sales catalogue, and even contact their rental department.

Classical Vocal Repertoire

Glendower Jones is the driving force behind Classical Vocal Repertoire and Classical Vocal Reprints. He does singers a great service by inexpensively reprinting hard-to-find repertoire once it has gone out of copyright. He is extremely knowledgable about vocal music, and has much more than you can find in his online database. When I'm looking for music, I either turn to Glendower first, or wish I had.

ECS Publishing

You can search the whole collection of ECS Publishing and Galaxy Music here. They have some very interesting operas, mainly contemporary.

EMI Music Publishing

If you need something from EMI, you can search their whole collection here, including a Lyric Catalog.

G. Schirmer, Inc.

Although Hal Leonard is the exclusive distributor for G. Schirmer publications, their website has a load of information.

Hal Leonard Online

Did you know that Hal Leonard’s nascency was as a band in the ‘40’s in Winona, Minnesota? It’s true. Two brothers, Hal and Leonard Edstrom started publishing arrangements of popular songs after their dance band broke up and, in doing so, started what is now a “world leader in the music print industry.”

The Juilliard Bookstore

The Yard's bookstore claims to carry every classical music book in print as well as a large selection of dance and drama books. In coming months you will be able to view the entire bookstore inventory on their website. The site is actually pretty slick.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

This is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces and (if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain) an image of the cover and each page of music.

Music scores.com

Pepper Music Network

Not exactly the first name you think of for ordering music, but they have a huge selection of opera scores, including some very obscure titles.

Peermusic Classical

Publisher of comtemporary classical music since 1948, Peermusic Classical has put together a nice little website. Particularly interesting is the What's New section.

Casa Ricordi

Ricordi=Italian Opera. Basta così.

Public Domain Music

SheetMusicNow.com

SheetMusicNow.com offers digital sheet music to download and print. The repertoire presented on the site includes a wide variety of interesting material for singers, e.g. an exclusive Opera Collection of digital sheet music personally edited by Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge and more than 450 lieder by Schubert, Mozart, Brahms and Schumann edited by the acclaimed Scandinavian accompanist Christen Stubbe Teglbjaerg.

T.I.S. Music

This Indiana-based music company has a new and improved online catalog. They have a number of new searching and browsing features, including a song/aria search which will find which titles are in which vocal collections, and the ability to browse by voice, publisher, category, etc. You can also check online when your order will ship. On top of all that, they have a great selection.

Theodore Presser Co.

The Theodore Presser Company is the oldest continuing music publisher in the United States. Who knew?

Variations Prototype: Online Musical Scores

This is an amazing, unprecedented resource! The wonderful people at Indiana University have set up an “experimental prototype” to supplement a “digital library project which provides access to over 5000 titles of near CD-quality digital audio to users at computer workstations” in the Cook Music Library at Indiana University. Unfortunately, but understandably, you cannot access anything not in the public domain from outside of the IU campus network. However, you can currently click through every page of approximately 30 opera scores, 27 volumes of songs, and 8 symphonic scores from anywhere in the world.

zZounds.com

Even though it's geared to popular musicians and it can be difficult to navigate, this site has a number of scores available at a substantial discount. It's not always clear what edition they carry, but that can be cleared up with an email. They also have a wide selection of musical instruments, microphones and accessories. If you follow this link when purchasing from zZounds.com, I get a small commission.

British Song Fa La La

Arizona State University Professor, Warren Hoffer has put together “a cornucopia of information on approximately 6000 song cycles, sets, albums, collections and individual songs, representing a body of song literature from the end of the 16th century to the present.”

Classical MIDI with Words

This is one of two services provided by the REC Music Foundation. This page provides karaoke-like versions of a number of songs and arias. The other is the Lied and Song Texts Page.

Daring Diva

A great resource for contemporary art song. They have a really good searchable database, and very interesting and eclectic repertoire.

Lied and Song Texts Page

This is probably the singe most useful page that I have found on the web. Whether I am just browsing song texts, want to know who else might have set a certain poem, or I am scrambling around trying to pull together translations, this site rarely lets me down.

New York Festival of Song

NMPA/HFA Home Page

Home to the National Music Publishers' Association and The Harry FoxAgency, Inc., this site also contains a search link to SongFile, where you can “search the world's largest music source.”

Ordinamento per Titolo

The Schubert Institute UK

Cardiff Singer of the World

During the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, this website is updated nightly. Sometimes the website is updated just moments after the announcements are made. Ain’t technology grand?

Center for Contemporary Opera

The International Opera Singers Competition was founded in 1983 to assist the most talented singers with their careers and to encourage contestants to become familiar with contemporary opera written in English.

Classical Productions

This website is one of the worst I've ever seen. First, you are subjected to a completely useless Flash intro. Then, it doesn't list the name of anyone involved with this organization, rather it replaces the contact information of the Music Director with an ICQ Respond-Online Panel, a big, clumsy interface that takes you out of Classical Productions' website. Oh, and they even have background music on one of the "Past Winners" pages. I put this link here just in case anyone comes looking for it, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Concert Artists Guild

Concert Artists Guild is a great organization, dedicated to developing the careers of young artists. Don't let their horrible website fool you, they do great work.

Joy in Singing

This non-profit organization was founded in 1958 and runs a strange competition. It begins pretty typically with a preliminary audition, but then you have to sing in a master class with Paul Sperry, you are required to use the pianist that they assign to you, and you have to pay to participate in the master class. But, if you win, you get a debut recital in Alice Tully Hall. Not too shabby!

The Kosciuszko Foundation Voice Competition

The MacAllister Awards

Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions

Everything you need to know about the MONCA can be found here. You can even download an application.

Opera Index, Inc.

Opera Index, Inc., a New York based, tax-exempt corporation organized to assist young singers in career development, awards cash grants totaling $30,000 with a first prize of $10,000.

Operalia

The Oratorio Society of New York

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation annually bestows unrestricted cash grants to American-born opera singers. Nominations for all potential candidates are solicited from a national panel of professionals in the field of opera. From those nominations sixty (60) singers who have been nominated for Richard Tucker Career Grants or Sara Tucker Study Grants are invited to audition in New York City during the month of April of the award year.
NOTICE: The original domain name for the Richard Tucker Music Foundation (rtucker.com, click at your own risk) has been commandeered and now redirects to a pay-per-click porn site.

Young Concert Artists

Amato Opera, New York

Anchorage Opera

The Arizona Opera, Tucson, Phoenix

Ash Lawn-Highland Summer Festival

The Atlanta Opera

Austin Lyric Opera

Baltimore Opera Company

Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Capitola, CA

Berkshire Opera Company, Great Barrington, MA

Boston Bel canto Opera

Boston Lyric Opera

Canadian Opera Company

Based in Toronto, Ontario with Richard Bradshaw at the helm, the COC is the largest producer of opera in Canada and the sixth largest in North America. The Company annually presents six fully staged productions between September and April.

Central City Opera

Chicago Opera Theater

Cincinnati Opera

Cleveland Opera

Connecticut Grand Opera, Stamford

The Dallas Opera

The Des Moines Metro Opera

Dicapo Opera Theatre, New York

Euterpe Opera Theatre

Euterpe Opera Theatre, founded in 1924, and with over 300 opera productions to date, is now producing chamber opera. Almost all Euterpe Opera productions are dramatically staged and sung in English - recently, some have been in Spanish as well.

Florentine Opera Company of Milwaukee

Who would have thought that Milwaukee contains the fifth oldest opera company in the United States?

Florida Grand Opera

With Stewart Robertson, Bernard Uzan and Diana Soviero at the helm, the Florida Grand Opera does some great stuff.

Fort Worth Opera

Houston Grand Opera

Hudson Opera Theatre

The Huntsville Opera Theater

Indianapolis Opera

Kansas City Lyric Opera

Lake George Opera Festival

Light Opera Works, Chicago

Long Beach Opera

This small company seems to do some pretty cutting-edge stuff.

Los Angeles Music Theatre Company

Los Angeles Music Center Opera

Lyric Opera Cleveland

You can find anything you might want to know about Lyric Opera Cleveland at their website.

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lyric Opera of Waco, TX

Madison Opera

Metropolitan Opera

Michigan Opera Theatre, Detroit

Minnesota Opera

Nashville Opera

Bringing opera to Nashvville since 1980, this company also runs the Tennessee Opera Theatre, a 10 to 12 week young artist program.

Natchez Opera Festival

New England Marionette Opera

New Orleans Opera

New York City Opera

New York Grand Opera Company

The Ohio Light Opera

Opera Aperta, Boston

Opera Atelier

With an emphasis on historically informed performances, this Toronto-based company has developed a highly diversified repertoire, interpreting opera, ballet and drama from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Opera Camerata of Washington

Opera Carolina, Charlotte

Opera Colorado

Opera Company of Philadelphia

L'Opéra de Montréal

Founded in 1980, this company is now run by Bernard Uzan.

Opera Delaware

Opera Fort Collins

Opera Illinois, Peoria, IL

Opera Memphis

Opera Pacific, Orange County

Opera Rochester

Opera San Jose

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Orlando Opera Connection

Pasadena Lyric Opera

Pittsburgh Opera

Pocket Opera, San Francisco

Portland Opera

Prism Opera, Boston

The Regina Opera Company, New York

The Roswell Lyric Opera Company (Georgia)

San Diego Opera

San Francisco Opera

Santa Barbara Grand Opera

Santa Fe Opera

Sarasota Opera

Seattle Opera

Shreveport Opera

Small Opera of San Diego

The Sorg Opera Company, Middletown, OH

Toledo Opera

Utah Festival Opera Company

Utah Opera, Salt Lake City

Vancouver Opera

Founded in 1958, this company is committed to presenting diverse repertoire and introducing its audiences to 20th-century opera. It is also commited to developing Canadian talent and when casting its mainstage productions, preference is given to Canadians.

Virginia Opera

The Washington Opera

West Bay Opera

Aria Database

A huge database of aria information. Great resource!

Canadian Opera Links

This site endeavors to be a comprehensive listing of Canadian opera and opera singers' websites.

Classical MIDI with Words

This is one of two services provided by the REC Music Foundation. This page provides karaoke-like versions of a number of songs and arias. The other is the Lied and Song Texts Page.

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Resources

Find out about the “Savoy Operas” at this site put together by Jocelyn K. Wilk of Simmons College.

House of Opera

This site provides recordings on CD-ROM of public-domain, or rare pirated material at very reasonable prices. Since the audio is in CD-ROM format, he manages to fit over 45 hours of music into one disc.

Libretto Homepage

MetManiac

New York Times Opera Reviews

New York Today kindly maintains this list alphabetical list of New York Times Opera Reviews from the last season or two.

NPR's At the Opera

OperaBase

OperadiO.com

OperaGlass

OperaMCY

operamom

This is a great site for singing professionals with children. I imagine it will grow into a great source of comfort and support for parents trying to balance career and child.

OPERA America

Opera Auditions

The goal of this site, run by Kenneth Morris, is to present singers LIVE on the web! Eventually, you will be able to listen to audio clips of “professional as well as up-and-coming young stars of tomorrow!”

OPERA magazine - www.opera.co.uk

Opera News Online

In the past, Opera News was an interesting read. Now it just makes me sad.

Opera Notes and Mike's Miscellany

Opera Singers

This commercial site is run by Anne Mitchell of The Musical Occasion. She is clearly not a fan of descriptive titles. You wouldn't know it from the name of her site or her business, but she sells mailing materials for you to send to agents and opera houses in Europe.

OPERA-L Search Page

Although it can be a nesting place for vipers, professors, the opera-obsessed, and bitter old opera queens, they are not just judgemental, they are also generally very well educated. So, instead of subscribing, just come to this search page and look for topics that interest you. (Or just look up your name to see if anyone on the list has seen or reviewed one of your performances.)

The Operaphile

Harold Sokosky (an OPERA-L devotee) runs this site.

Operastars.com

OperaStuff

Not exactly the most inventive name, but I like stuff, so I like this site.

OperaTheater.com Homepage

OperaWeb

Operissimo

parterre box: the queer opera zine

This totally fabulous, totally outrageous, totally unreliable 'zine is a fun read, mainly due to the personaliy of James Jorden which comes through loud and queer.

U.S. Opera

This site is dedicated to opera by American composers. It will be useful to anyone interested in this “neglected area of the American musical landscape.” There is a wonderful timeline of opera in the US from 1841-1999. Great resource!

Zarzuela! Homepage

Des Moines Metro Opera Apprentice Artist Program

Wolf Trap Opera Company Filene Young Artists

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Ensemble

Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program

Pittsburg Opera Center

San Francisco Opera Center

Chautauqua

Indianapolis Opera Young Artist Training Program

Lake George Opera Apprentice Program

Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers

Sarasota Opera Apprentice Artists Program Sarasota Opera Studio Artists Program

Seattle Opera Young Artists Program

Aspen Music Festival and School

Brevard Music Center and Festival

Founded in 1965 by Artistic Director Emeritus Henry Janiec, the Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Music Center offers repertory experience representing the important middle step between college training and the professional world. Four major productions are usually presented with most of the roles performed by students. Vocalists must have completed at least one year of college to apply for the Janiec Opera Company.

Franz-Schubert-Institut

The Franz-Schubert-Institut is a private, non-profit organization chartered under the laws of Austria for the purpose of "furthering and cultivating the art of the German Lied". It has a very impressive roster of teachers.

Music Academy of the West

Accepting approximately 20 students each summer, Music Academy of the West participants are coached in opera/musical theater singing and acting, and in art song interpretation. The maximum age of this program is 32.

Opera Aegean

This company, still in its infancy (born July 11, 2000 weighing 21 singers, 15 administrators) is based in Athens, Greece, where it has rehearsals, coachings, and master classes for about two weeks before embarking on a concert tour to various cities in Greece. For the 2002 program, tuition is just over $2K and that doesn't include transportation to and from Greece OR lodging in Athens during the rehearsal period (during which you MUST stay in hotels designated by Opera Aegean.)

Seagle Music Colony

For more than 80 years, the mission of the Seagle Music Colony in the Adirondack mountains has been to train singers of exceptional quality. Artists participate in five fully staged productions every season along with recitals, concerts, diction and acting classes, and vespers - sacred music concerts. Twice weekly, artists receive private voice lessons and private coaching sessions. Other classes are offered in diction, acting, yoga, fight choreography, make-up, stage crafts, set building, and costume building.

The Steans Institute for Young Artists at the Ravinia Festival

About.com's Classical Music Home Page

This is an extensive resource, with many interesting articles. It is very frequently updated.

AGMA Home Page

The homepage for our favorite union.

American Composers Forum

This Minnesota-based organization works to link communities with composers and performers.

Arioso Concert Music Directory

Nice information source for classical music.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

ASCAP is the self-proclaimed “world’s most visited professional music website.”

Backstage Magazine

The first place to turn for those with a desire to do crossover work.

Bassocantante

Carlton Higginbotham runs this multimedia site dedicated to performance art, the Roaring Twenties, and web page design. It has an ever-changing selection of photos and sound clips.

BMI Home Page

While I don't know what BMI stands for, or how involved with classical music they currently are, if they were good enough for Charles Ives, they are good enough for this links page.

The Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers

The name says it all. You can purchase compositions directly from this site, and see dorky pictures of said contemporary composers.

The Center for Voice Disorders of Wake Forest University

The purpose of this website is to provide information about the larynx and the voice as well as laryngeal and voice disorders. Included in this website are research data and new information, some of which have not yet been published in medical literature. If you have a voice disorder, look at the section on reflux; it's important and extremely common.

Chamber Music America

Chamber Music America’s mission is to make chamber music a vital part of American culture

Classic Arts Showcase

Classic Arts Showcase is a monumental audience development project to create a new audience for the Arts. It is designed to bring the classic arts experience to the largest audience possible by airing short video clips of the arts, Classic MTV format, in hopes that we may tempt the viewer to go out and feast from the buffet of arts available in your community. The spectrum of classic arts disciplines aired on Classic Arts Showcase includes video samplings of animation, architectural art, ballet, chamber and choral music, dance, folk art, museum art, musical theater, opera, orchestral, recital, solo instrumental. solo vocal, and theatrical performances, as well as classic film and archival documentaries. It is provided free and unscrambled to the people of North America as a public service to stimulate interest and support for the arts and local, not-for-profit arts institutions.

Classic Arts Showcase is a 24-hour Satellite Programming Service sent in stereo to all of North America from Hughes satellite Galaxy 1-R, Transponder 5. Launched May 3, 1994, it is available free and unscrambled to local cable programmers, broadcast stations, DBS, closed-circuit TV distributors, and 6 million North American backyard dish owners.

Classical Composers Database

You want some very basic information on a composer? Look no further.

Classical Composers' Information Archive

Ditto, but with slightly more information, and pictures. Unfortunately, the site is pretty hard on the eyes and uses sketchy code.

Classical Net

Another extensive resource for classical music in general, but not that frequently updated.

The Classical Singer Community

Formerly the New York Opera Newsletter, Classical Singer Magazine is a good resource for audition listings and they used to have a forum of some sort. . .

The Classical Singers Association

This California-based organization brings in some good people to give masterclasses.

The Cleveland Orchestra

Founded in 1918, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the world’s best. They have an informative and beautifully designed website.

Concert Recorders

According to their website, “Concert & Recital Recorders, LLC of Chicago offers fully professional audio recording and production services, tailored to the needs of the Classical and acoustic Jazz music communities.” Apparently, their rates are “among the most reasonable in the industry.”

crea-cultura.org

Culture-management from Anton Herbert Honegger. . . whatever that means. Anyone who can explain this site to me gets a lollipop.

Divafresca's Bibliography

A huge bibliography put together by the beloved (and refreshing) Divafresca.

GetMusic.com's Classical Page

Slick commercial site that's updated pretty frequently.

Great Concert Disasters

A great, if somewhat silly, site listing many great (and spurious) disasters we can relate to.

Great Tenors of the Past

This site serves up 4 audio examples each for 200 tenors. Incredible!

Karen Mercedes

Karen has put together so many resources, and I will simply link to her home page and leave it to you to venture down the page and follow those links which interest you. One particularly interesting thing is her listing of Vocal Repertoire (by fach).

Klassik Online - Classical music on the Internet

La Scena Musicale Online

Library of Congress Home Page

Search the Library of Congress online. You gotta love the information age!

The Living Music Foundation, Inc.

A site dedicated to promoting contemporary composers.

Lori Laitman: ArtSongs.com

The web site of composer Lori Laitman. Lori writes art songs and other vocal chamber works.

MusAcom.com

"Today's tools for tomorrow's singers." This is the site of the makers of the PracticePak, a study aid for learning art songs. They have a pretty basic selection of songs, probably only useful for students.

Musical America

The National Association of Teachers of Singing

Founded on March 23, 1944 in Cincinnati, Ohio, NATS is now the largest association of teachers of singing in the world. It is probably best-known for its Student Auditions, which give developing singers an opportunity to sing for adjudication, and for its scholarly publication, the Journal of Singing.

National Endowment for the Arts

Read all about how to get yourself a grant from the NEA, then download an application.

Norwegian Vocal Music

NYC-Broadway, Opera, Cabaret, & Jazz

Wow. This is a massive clearinghouse of information on venues and companies in New York City.

Online Classics

This is an incredible place if you can handle the bandwidth. It's incredible the amount of music that you can watch and listen to from this site. If you've got a fast connection, checl it out. If don't have a fast connection, don't even look because it will make you want one.

Orchestra of St. Luke's/St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble

Performance Practice Encyclopedia

How long has this been here and why wasn't I told earlier? The Performance Practice Encyclopedia is a huge resource that everyone should know about. It is dedicated to furthering musical performance in accord with historical criteria and with a composer’s intentions (insofar as these can be determined). Its goal is to summarize and thus make readily accessible ongoing as well as earlier research concerning historical practice, directing the performer to the most pertinent and useful details.

Ravinia Festival

Resource Advantage

Resource Advantage claims to be the most comprehensive sourcebook dedicated to print photography and its production on the web. What you may find particularly helpful is the extensive annotated list of Theatrical Make-Up Supplies.

Shirlee Emmons _ VoicePerformance.Com-

Singers' Bibliography

Summer Singing Directory

This website is a free resource which contains profiles of dozens of singing programs in the United States and abroad. Each profile highlights the focus of the particular program and provides details on the upcoming Summer season.

The Opera Critic

A great clearinghouse for opera reviews.

Thea van der Putten's Recommended Repertoire

This is a strange and interesting page put together by a vocal professor at the Royal Conservatory at The Hague, in the Netherlands.

Turismo in Campania - Medivia

University of California, Santa Barbara Library Music Information Resources Page

The author of this page, Eunice Schroeder, is an incredible music librarian, and has amassed a huge amount of online information here. You could spend days visiting all of the sites linked to from this page.

University of Pittsburgh Voice Center

This is an important resource for all singers. The University of Pittsburg Voice Center has put together a wealth of information, and made it easily accessible here on their website.

Vocal Posters

Katy Decker started this growing company in 2001 to provide creative and informative educational aids for voice teachers.

Vocalist

WomensMusic.com

Here you will find not only a database of women composers, past and present, there is a chat room and a message board where you can discuss the state of women composers.

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Classical Music

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