Singers' and Choral Directors' Bible

This ballad opera website was created at Oxford University and represents the collective efforts of a team of British and American music scholars.
The website does a great job of informing visitors about the attributes of the ballad opera and the societal context in which it came about, by including sections on "Theatre & Dance History", "Cultural History", "Political History", and "Stars of Ballad Operas". Visitors should not miss the "Audio Samples" link, on the left hand menu.

Pippin founded Pocket Opera, which started in 1977 with the purpose of making opera more accessible to the average concertgoer by presenting opera in unique English language translations with a small chamber ensemble. The Donald Pippin Collection consists primarily of Pippin's English translations of opera librettos available as pdf files. Additional materials include facsimiles of over 300 print media reviews of Pocket Opera productions; copies of two anthologies published by Pippin, A Pocketful of Lyrics and As the Lights Go Up…: Tales from the Opera; a speech on Offenbach given by Pippin in San Francisco in 1996; a tribute ode by Anne Dudley on the occasion of Pippin's 60th birthday; and finally an interview with Pippin published in Journal Français d'Amérique in 1996.

This German site sponsored by the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek provides access to libretti of hundreds of operas, oratorios, and ballets.

This includes everything from opera synopses and historical pictures to timelines and facts. The main part of hte site discusses the Met's history.

Site authored by John Kenrick, author of two books on musicals. Provides much useful information not only about the history of musicals and musical performers but also about the mechanics of putting on a musical.

An aria database containing information about more than 150 Opera Composers, 470 Operas (including libretti), 2,800 Opera Arias, 800 Opera Duets, 570 Opera Ensembles and a total of over 7,400 Opera Scenes. The searchability of this aria database has been designed to be as easy as possible and the information as complete as possible. You can search through opera arias, duets, ensembles, scenes, roles, operas and composers in many different ways.

Operabase has documented operatic activity worldwide since 1996, with over 190,000 performances on file. It records the work of artists in over 600 theatres, and publishes season information to opera-goers in 7 languages.

Includes an alphabetized list of operas and associated resources, e.g. a synopsis and/or the full libretto, performance history, discography, pictures, or other source materials.