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Opera houses:
Krannert Center, UIUC: http://www.krannertcenter.com/perform/series/opera.php
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) Opera Series: http://www.northwestern.edu/...
Lyric Opera of Chicago: http://www.lyricopera.org/
Metropolitan Opera, NYC: http://www.metopera.org/
Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London: http://www.royalopera.org/Home/
San Francisco Opera: http://www.sfopera.com/index.html
La Scala: www.teatroallascala.it and http://www.lascala.milano.it/eng/homepage.htm
La Scala Renovation project: www.cantierescala.it
La Scala: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Italy-La-Scala-Renovation.html
List of opera companies on the web: http://www.fsz.bme.hu/opera/companies.html

Artist sites (singers):
Marian Anderson (lots of great pics): http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/anderson/index.html
Bartoli: http://www.deccaclassics.com/artists/bartoli/index.html
The 'official Maria Callas web site': http://www.callas.it/
An awesome Callas discography site: http://www.mariacallas4ever.com/
another Callas discography site (with pics): http://sopranos.freeservers.com/mcdisc5.htm
another Callas Performance Annals and discography site (excellent!): http://frankhamilton.org/mc/index.html
Caruso: http://www.enricocarusomuseum.com/home.html and http://www.geopaix.com/caruso/
Franco Corelli Performance Annals and discography site (excellent!): http://frankhamilton.org/fc/index.html
Placido Domingo (good articles & interviews): http://www.placidodomingo.com
Placido Domingo @ Allmusic.com: http://www.allclassical.com/cg/acg.dll?p=acg&sql=1:20951~C
Plácido Domingo interview: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/interviews_detail.asp?id=970
Gheorghiu and Alagna Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gheorghiuandalagna/messages/1
Tito Gobbi info: http://archivio.opera.it/English/Cantanti/Gobbi.html
Tito Gobbi Performance Chronology and discography site (excellent!): http://frankhamilton.org/tg/index.html
Luciano Pavarotti: http://www.lucianopavarotti.com/
Elisabeth Schumann: http://www.elisabethschumann.org/lifetimese.htm
Beverly Sills: http://groups.msn.com/coloraturasopranos/beverlysills.msnw
Giuseppe di Stefano: http://members.tripod.com/%7ETosca/DiStefano/
Giuseppe di Stefano Performance Chronology & discography site (excellent!): http://frankhamilton.org/js/index.html
Giuseppe di Stefano: http://www.grandi-tenori.com/tenors/distefano/distefano.php
Dame Joan Sutherland: http://www.cygnet.co.uk/thedame/index.html
Renata Tebaldi tribute: http://www.oocities.org/renatatebaldi/index.html
Renata Tebaldi interview: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/interviews_detail.asp?id=921&f=
Luisa Tetrazzini: http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/luisa.html
Luisa Tetrazzini: http://www.cantabile-subito.de/Sopranos/Tetrazzini__Luisa/hauptteil_tetrazzini__luisa.htm
Gabriella Tucci Performance Chronology site (excellent!): http://frankhamilton.org/gt/index.html
A site for collectors of Great Singers of the Past: http://www.cantabile-subito.de/index.html
coloratura link: http://groups.msn.com/ColoraturaSopranos/coloraturasopranoshomebase.msnw
diva link: http://www.divalegacy.com/
soprano link: http://sopranos.freeservers.com/sopranob.htm
soprano link: http://www.radix.net/~dalila/singers/sopranos.html
tons of singer links: http://www.musiscope.com/sopranos.htm
Other Favourite Sopranos: http://www.oocities.org/Vienna/Strasse/6614/Sopranos.html
various Performance Annals and discography site (excellent!): http://frankhamilton.org/

Artist sites (instrumentalists, etc.):
Alfred Brendel: http://www.alfredbrendel.com/mov.htm
Alfred Brendel: http://www.oocities.org/Vienna/2192/essays7.html
Alfred Brendel interviews (1988, 1996): http://www.oocities.org/Vienna/2192/intervie.html
Alfred Brendel interview (NY Review of Books 10-10-02): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15736
Shura Cherkassky interview: http://www.angelfire.com/music2/davidbundler/cherkassky.html
Vladimir Horowitz: http://www.oocities.org/vienna/strasse/9436/
Vladimir de Pachmann interview (Etude, 12-23): http://users.bigpond.net.au/nettheim/pachmann/radical.htm
Paganini violin - El Canon: http://www.giordanoviolins.com/paganini.htm
Concertgebouw Orchestra: http://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/uk/index.html
http://www.concertgebouw.nl/
History of recording in Concertgebouw: http://classicalcdreview.com/ctgb.html

Composer sites:
Ferruccio Busoni Discography: http://hayes.cside2.jp/fb/fbdframe.html
Meyerbeer: http://www.meyerbeer.com./
Mozart: http://www.mozartproject.org/
Stanford opera composer index: http://opera.stanford.edu/composers/

Historical sites:
Gramophone Co. Matrix Nos. (re. Gilbert & Sullivan): http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/matrix2.htm
Victor's Use of Matrix Numbers (re. Gilbert & Sullivan): http://www.cris.com/~oakapple/gasdisc/matrix3.htm
Archived images of historic opera singers, composers, and set designs: http://www.historicopera.com/
Library of Congress National Recording Preservation : http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-home.html
History of Italian Opera (a pay site, but lots of stuff here): http://www.operaitaliana.com/start.asp
historic reissues: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/arsclist/2001/03/msg00018.html
misc: http://www.handelmania.com/

Other resources:
Chevron Texaco Opera Information Center: http://www.operainfo.org
and returning to the net on 12-14-02: http://www.metmaniac.com
Grammophone Magazine: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/index.asp
Bel Canto Society: http://www.belcantosociety.org/index.html
VAI (Video Artists International) videos: http://www.vaimusic.com/index.shtml
The British Library Music Collections: http://www.bl.uk/collections/music.html
British Library Sound Archive, one of the largest sound archives in the world: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsa.html

Recorded & Broadcast Opera Basic Dictionary: http://joshua.micronet.it/...html
In this DB: data about 520 composers / 1497 operas in 4015 recordings
1235 arias in 3240 recordings / more than 5500 artists

misc.: http://www.operastuff.com/
OperaGlass, an opera information server at Stanford Univ.: http://opera.stanford.edu/main.html
Andrew Cooper's (mainly) Operatic Pages: http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~lib6arc/
CD recording / opera: lots of interesting stuff: http://www.m.com/
and especially http://www.mrichter.com/opera/files/files.htm
Tom Kaufman's composer & tenor page (w/ more links): http://www.oocities.org/Vienna/8917/
misc. opera recordings & videos: http://www.oocities.org/ehub035/index.html

Record Label pages:
Decca / Philips: http://catalogue.deccaclassics.com/catalogue/home.html
Divina (Callas!): http://www.divinarecords.com/
Historic Masters Web Site: http://www.historicmasters.org/
International Record Collectors' Club: http://hometown.aol.com/dircc/goodhst.html
Marston Records: http://www.marstonrecords.com
Naxos: http://www.naxos.com/naxos/naxos_marco_polo.htm
Pearl is a part of Pavilion Records http://www.pavilionrecords.com/ (their online catalog is not much good)
Romophone: http://www.romophone.co.uk/
Sony: http://www.sonyclassical.com/
Telarc: http://www.telarc.com/
Univeral Classics (Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Philips - links to each; or go directly to...)
Deutsche Grammophon: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/home.htms

78rpm Record pages:
78rpm info: http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/Labels/labels.html
78rpm info - sound reproduction, lists of historic info, etc.: http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/index.html
Classic Vinyl (LP) Artwork
LP Labels (some neat stuff!): http://hayes.cside2.jp/index_e.html
Kurt Nauck: http://78rpm.com/
Glen Sage: http://tinfoil.com/

collectable records: http://www.collectable-records.ru/english.htm
The International Directory Of Label Research : http://www.hensteeth.com/e_discog/labgraph.html
record label search help: http://allrecordlabels.com/
lots of misc. label links: http://www.new-classics.co.uk/html/links.html

misc:
WFMT home page: http://www.wfmt.com/index.html
opera photos on eBay: http://www.stores.ebay.com/lascalaautographs/
From the Recording Horn, Andy Karzas: http://www.wfmt.com/hosts/index.html
Classical Music web ring: http://h.webring.com/hub?ring=classicalring
opera-l: http://www.opera-l.org/ or http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/opera-l.html

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** Music News **

NOTE: Chicago Tribune articles are available online at http://www.chicagotribune.com/
NY Times articles are available online at http://www.nytimes.com/
Boston Globe articles are available online at http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/
LA Times articles are available online at http://www.latimes.com/
San Francisco Chronicle articles are available online at http://www.sfgate.com/

Free logins are required, I couldn't get a direct link to my chosen articles to work from here, and I don't know how long articles are maintained in their archive. They are copied here for backup / personal use only.

A drama for L.A. Opera
January 10, 2003 / By Diane Haithman, LA Times Staff Writer Snafus, including a late sub for Plácido Domingo, seemed to conspire against Saturday's debut of 'Poetry & Passion,' but the show will go on.

Giving Those Callas Bootleg Tapes a Road Test
January 9, 2003 / By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, NY Times

The Spirit and the Body, Two Unwhole
December 17, 2002 / By Bernard Holland / New York Times music critic. CHICAGO, Dec. 15 — Some operas, like cars, are not meant to run forever. We are wise to keep them for their spare parts but otherwise to leave them idle. Massenet's "Thaïs" creaks into the 21st century. A major overhaul and modernization might grease its way, but John Cox's earnest, straight-arrow production at the Lyric Opera of Chicago on Saturday night reminded us that outdated theater is rescued only by unforgettable music. Massenet's has its moments — like the deathless "Meditation" — but not enough of them. And oh, such terrible theater.

John von Rhein's top 10 classical albums of 2002
December 15, 2002 / By John von Rhein / Chicago Tribune music critic.

Howard Reich's top 10 jazz albums of 2002
December 15, 2002 / By Howard Reich / Chicago Tribune jazz critic.

Lyric not taking any chances with lineup for '03-'04 season
December 9, 2002 / By John von Rhein / Chicago Tribune music critic. Having recently replaced two worthy but lesser known operas with more popular fare on its 2003-04 season schedule, Lyric Opera has announced the remaining works and the artists who will participate in that season, the company's 49th, at the Civic Opera House. ...Here is the rest of the [2003 - 2004 Lyric Opera] season, listed in order of presentation

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