Vocal Department Resource Links

  • http://www.operastuff.com/ - Opera on the Net.  Includes information on Opera singers and companies, forums, Opera Listservers, Lieder Listservers and newsgroups.

  • http://www.aria-database.com/ - The Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles.

  • http://rick.stanford.edu/opera/main.html - An opera information server on the World Wide Web. Here you can get detailed information, including: Libretti, Source Texts, Performance Histories, Synopses, and Discographies.  Plus pictures, background information, and more on any of a small but rapidly growing number of operas, plus pointers to many other opera servers.
  • http://dictionaries.travlang.com/- Online dictionaries for German, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, French, Frisian, Spanish, Afrikaans, Portugues, Hungarian, Italian, Czech, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Latin, Turkish, and Esperanto as well as links to others.
  • http://www.ncvs.org   The National Center for Voice and Speech; an excellent resource for voice science and medicine.  It contains, for example a list of medications and their effect on voice.

  • http://music.wcu.edu/choral/italian  a site that plays the accompaniments of the 24 Italian Song

  • http://tinyurl.com/4oshu9 an Internet Archives database of public domain and/or completely royalty- and copyright-free text, visual, audio and video materials and even software. You can view/download/print everything, including nearly 100 piano/vocal scores of musicals, operas and operettas