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Singers' and Choral Directors' Bible

Resources for the classical singer, including how to find repertoire, translations, pronunciations, and pedagogical works. Choral music resources also are included.

Finding Scenes & One-Acts

Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias by Richard Boldrey
Call Number: ML102.O6 B650 1994
ISBN: 9781877761645
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
Guide to Operatic Duets by Richard Boldrey
Call Number: ML102.O6 B6 1994
ISBN: 9781877761652
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
More Opera Scenes for Class and Stage by Mary Elaine Wallace; Robert Wallace
Call Number: ML128.O41 W3
ISBN: 9780809314294
Publication Date: 1990-11-06
Operas in One Act by W. Franklin Summers
Call Number: MT955 .S86 1997
ISBN: 9780810832220
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Opera Scenes for Class and Stage by Mary E. Wallace; Robert Wallace
Call Number: ML128.O4 W3
ISBN: 9780809309030
Publication Date: 1979-08-16

Finding Plot Summaries

The Barnes Book of the Opera by Gladys Davidson
Call Number: MT95.D2 B4
The Definitive Kobbe's Opera Book by Gutav Kobbe; Harewood
Call Number: MT95 .K52 1987
ISBN: 9780399131806
Publication Date: 1987-09-02
Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre by Kurt Ganzl
Call Number: ML102.M88 G3 1994
ISBN: 9780028714455
Publication Date: 1994-03-01
Ganzl's Book of the Musical Theatre by Kurt Ganzl; Andrew Lamb
Call Number: MT95 .G2 1989
ISBN: 9780028719412
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Index to Opera, Operetta and Musical Comedy Synopses in Collections and Periodicals by Jeanette M. Drone
Call Number: ML128.O4 D76
ISBN: 9780810811003
Publication Date: 1995-05-23
The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas by John W. Freeman
Call Number: MT95 .M49 1984
ISBN: 9780393018882
Publication Date: 1984-11-17
Musical Theater Synopses by Jeanette Marie Drone
Call Number: ML128.O4 D76 1998 Suppl.
ISBN: 9780810834897
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera by Stanley Sadie (Editor)
Call Number: ML102.O6 N5 1992
ISBN: 9780935859928
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
The Opera Handbook by John Lazurus (Editor)
Call Number: MT95 .L5 1990
ISBN: 9780816190942
Publication Date: 1990-04-01
Opera Plot Index by David Hamilton; William E. Studwell
Call Number: ML128.O4 S8 1989
ISBN: 9780824046217
Publication Date: 1990-03-01
Operas in English by Margaret Ross Griffel
Call Number: ML102.O6 G74 2013
ISBN: 9780810882720
Publication Date: 2012-12-21
The Victor Book of the Opera by Henry W. Simon
Call Number: REF MT150 .V4 1968
Publication Date: 1968

Operatic Literature/"Opera Scenes" (solo and ensemble)

Arias, Ensembles, and Choruses by David Daniels; John Yaffé
Call Number: ML128.V7 Y34 2012
ISBN: 9780810881662
Publication Date: 2011-11-17
Bringing Soprano Arias to Life by Boris Goldovsky; Arthur Schoep
Call Number: MT892 .G64
ISBN: 9780911320640
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
The Chorus in Opera by David P. DeVenney; Craig R. Johnson
Call Number: ML128.C48 D423 1993
ISBN: 9780810826205
Publication Date: 1992-12-01
Guide to Operatic Duets by Richard Boldrey
Call Number: ML102.O6 B6 1994
ISBN: 9781877761652
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias by Richard Boldrey
Call Number: ML102.O6 B650 1994
ISBN: 9781877761645
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
Guide to the Aria Repertoire by Mark Ross Clark
Call Number: ML128.O4 C53 2007
ISBN: 9780253346681
Publication Date: 2007-02-01
An Interpretive Guide to Operatic Arias by Martial Singher (Translator); Eta Singher (Translator)
Call Number: MT892 .S5 1983
ISBN: 9780271003511
Publication Date: 1990-10-01
More Opera Scenes for Class and Stage by Mary Elaine Wallace; Robert Wallace
Call Number: ML128.O41 W3
ISBN: 9780809314294
Publication Date: 1990-11-06
Opera Coaching by Alan Montgomery
Call Number: MT956.M653 O647 2006
ISBN: 9780415976008
Publication Date: 2006-03-21
Opera Scenes for Class and Stage by Mary E. Wallace; Robert Wallace
Call Number: ML128.O4 W3
ISBN: 9780809309030
Publication Date: 1979-08-16
Operas in One Act by W. Franklin Summers
Call Number: MT955 .S86 1997
ISBN: 9780810832220
Publication Date: 2003-01-01

Miscellaneous (& Interesting) Info about Opera

The Annals of the Metropolitan Opera: the complete chronicle of performances and artists : chronology 1883-1985 by Gerald Fitzgerald (Editor)
Call Number: REF ML1711.8.N52 M38 1989
ISBN: 081618903X
Publication Date: 1990-04-01
Cross Index Title Guide to Opera and Operetta by Steven G. Pallay
Call Number: REF ML128.O4 P3 1989
ISBN: 0313256225
Publication Date: 1989-06-23
Opera: a research and information guide by Guy A. Marco; Edward O. D. Downes (Foreword by)
Call Number: REF ML128.O4 M28 2001
ISBN: 0815335164
Publication Date: 2000-12-22
Opera Production I: a handbook by Quaintance Eaton
Call Number: REF MT955 .E25 1974
ISBN: 0306706350
Publication Date: 1974-03-01
Recent American Opera: a production guide by Rebecca Kornick
Call Number: REF MT955 .K82 1990
ISBN: 0231069200
Publication Date: 1991-01-31

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