LibGuides: MUS 101: Introduction to Music: Classical: Opera

Call Numbers and Subject Headings

Call Numbers

M 1500	Full score of operas
M 1503	Piano-vocal scores of operas
M 1505	Opera excerpts (full scores)
M 1507-8	Opera excerpts (piano-vocal scores)
ML 50	Libretti
ML 1700-1751	Literature on opera history, criticism, and companies
ML 2100	Opera and gender, opera and cinema
ML 3858	Opera aesthetics and philosophy

Subject Headings

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Opera
Opera -- 17th Century
Opera -- 18th Century
Opera -- 19th Century
Opera -- 20th Century
Opera -- Dictionaries
Opera -- Periodicals
Opera -- (insert Country Name)

On the Web

A Timeline of American Opera
More than 150 years of American opera, including premieres and other significant events.
The Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center
"Find opera synopses, biographies for singers, conductors and composers, production photos, sound clips, background information, and teacher study guides for each opera in our broadcast season."
NAXOS Opera Synopses
Part of Naxos's education page at their commercial site. Synopses not only include plot, but character break-down and a short history. Contains many hard-to-find operas.
Online Opera Scores Prototype at Indiana University
"Information on 475+ composers and 1250+ operas. Our goal is to provide links from each composer and opera to external web pages of interest. You can search by composer's name or opera title."
Opera America
"Opera America serves and strengthens the field of opera by providing a variety of informational, technical, and administrative resources to the greater opera community. Its fundamental mission is to promote opera as exciting and accessible to individuals from all walks of life."
OperaGlass
A resource through Stanford University giving detailed information on many operas, including libretti, in the original language only, source texts, performance histories, and synopses
Televised Opera and Musical Comedy Database
"Documents more than a half-century of opera, operetta, and musical comedy telecasts produced in the United States"..."Traces performance programming from early live presentations on experimental TV stations, to contemporary productions released on broadcast television, various cable forms, and home video."