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.

The Classical Singers Association

This California-based organization brings in some good people to give masterclasses. They now have their own domain name.

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.

Canadian Opera Links

This recently updated and expanded site endeavors to be a comprehensive listing of Canadian opera and opera singers' websites. They've also simplified their URL, which is a good thing.

The Schubert Institute UK

Those savvy folks at the Schubert Institute UK were able to figure out from their weblogs that my site was sending people to their old URL. I love site admins who are that on top of things.

Fort Worth Opera

Props go out to the eagle-eyed visitor who brought the outdated Fort Worth Opera link to my attention. This is Fort Worth Opera's new website. I would normally post a pithy comment about the site here, but the genius who designed it didn't feel the need to make a version that is compatible with my browser. That genius should be fired.

crea-cultura.org

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

GetMusic.com's Classical Page

Slick commercial site that's updated pretty frequently.

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.

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.

The Opera Critic

A great clearinghouse for opera reviews.

Lake George Opera Festival

The new website for this company is finally up and it looks great!

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.)

Vocal Posters

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

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.

Nashville Opera

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

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.

Shreveport Opera

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.

Great Tenors of the Past

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

L'Opéra de Montréal

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

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.

Canadian Opera Links

Since I am really not interested in maintaining a list of Canadian Opera Links, I refer you this page.

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.

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.

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.