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** Videos **

Leoncavallo - Pagliacci / Zeffirelli, Georges Prêtre (1990)
Domingo (or Cav-Pag on DVD)

Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana (1990)
Rattle, White, Haymon, Glyndebourne Opera

Gershwin - Porgy and Bess (1993)
Opera

Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1992)
Dario Fo, Zedda, Larmore, Croft, Netherlands Opera

 Puccini - La Boheme (1982)
Franco Zeffirelli · James Levine · T. Stratas · R. Scotto · J. Carreras · MET
 

 Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor (1982)
Richard Bonynge, The Metropolitan Opera;
Joan Sutherland · Alfredo Kraus

Bellini - Norma (1981)
Richard Bonynge, Opera Australia; Joan Sutherland
 

Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1976)
Sarah Caldwell, New York City Opera Orch.; Sills · Ramey

 

Verdi - La Traviata (1982)
Levine, Metropolitain Opera Orchestra; Stratas, Domingo; Zeffirelli, dir.

 

 Maria Callas - At Covent Garden 1962 and 1964 (1994) (includes Act II of Tosca)

Puccini - Tosca (1985)
Sinopoli, Domingo, Behrens, The Metropolitan Opera

 

Verdi - La Traviata (1994)
Richard Eyre, Solti, Gheorghiu, Lopardo, Nucci, ROH Covent Garden

Verdi - Rigoletto (1990)
Chailly, Pavarotti, Wixell, Gruberova, Vienna Philharmonic

 

Mozart - The Magic Flute (Bergman -DVD, VHS) (1975)
 

Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro (1973)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Cast: Ileana Cotrubas, Frederica Von Stade, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon. (Italian with English subtitles) more info on Figaro here

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** CDs **

See complete lists on separate pages: Opera CDs A-M and Opera CDs N-Z

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** Books **

Sign-Off for the Old Met:
The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1950-1966
by Paul J. Jackson
Hardcover: 660 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.06 x 10.78 x 7.89
Publisher: Amadeus Pr; ISBN: 1574670301 (October 1997)

Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met:
The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1931-1950
by Paul J. Jackson
Hardcover: 586 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.99 x 10.57 x 7.69
Publisher: Amadeus Pr; ISBN: 0931340489 (December 1992)

Callas by Callas: The Secret Writing of "La Maria"
by Renzo Allegri, Roberto Allegri
Paperback: 752 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.43 x 9.25 x 6.69
Publisher: Rough Guides; ISBN: 1858287499; 3rd edition (August 2002)

 

The Callas Legacy:
The Complete Guide to Her Recordings on Compact Discs
by John Ardoin
Hardcover: 168 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.72 x 11.36 x 9.38
Publisher: Universe Books; (May 1998)

The New Penguin Opera Guide
by Amanda Holden (Editor)
Paperback: 1168 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.81 x 9.08 x 6.76
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper); (September 2002)

The Rough Guide to Opera (3rd Edition)
by Matthew Boyden
Paperback: 752 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.43 x 9.25 x 6.69
Publisher: Rough Guides; ISBN: 1858287499; 3rd edition (August 2002)

The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera
by Paul Gruber (Editor)
Hardcover: 782 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.68 x 9.54 x 6.92
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393034445; (October 1993)

 

The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video
by Paul Gruber
Hardcover: 483 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.46 x 9.48 x 6.91
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393045366; (October 1997)

Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
by Fred Plotkin
Paperback: 494 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.13 x 8.42 x 5.50
Publisher: Hyperion (Adult Trd Pap); ISBN: 0786880252; (December 1994)

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** Links **

Opera houses:
Krannert Center, UIUC: http://www.krannertcenter.com/perform/series/opera.php
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/
List of opera companies on the web: http://www.fsz.bme.hu/opera/companies.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

Artist sites:
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/
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
Gheorghiu and Alagna Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gheorghiuandalagna/messages/1
Tito Gobbi info: http://archivio.opera.it/English/Cantanti/Gobbi.html
Pavarotti: http://www.lucianopavarotti.com/
Dame Joan Sutherland: http://www.cygnet.co.uk/thedame/index.html
Renata Tebaldi tribute: http://www.oocities.org/renatatebaldi/index.html

Alfred Brendel: http://www.alfredbrendel.com/mov.htm

Interviews:
Plácido Domingo: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/interviews_detail.asp?id=970
Renata Tebaldi: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/interviews_detail.asp?id=921&f=

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

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

opera-l: http://www.opera-l.org/ or http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/opera-l.html
Archived images of historic opera singers, composers, and set designs: http://www.historicopera.com/
http://www.operastuff.com/
http://www.divalegacy.com/
http://www.meyerbeer.com./
http://sopranos.freeservers.com/mcdisc5.htm

nice personal opera pages:
http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~lib6arc/
lots of interesting stuff: http://www.mrichter.com/ and especially http://www.mrichter.com/opera/files/files.htm
http://www.handelmania.com/
http://frankhamilton.org/
http://www.oocities.org/Vienna/8917/
Other Favourite Sopranos: http://www.oocities.org/Vienna/Strasse/6614/Sopranos.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-home.html
http://archivio.opera.it/English/OperaWeb.html

Decca / Philips: http://catalogue.deccaclassics.com/catalogue/home.html
Divina (Callas!): http://www.divinarecords.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)
Sony: http://www.sonyclassical.com/
Telarc: http://www.telarc.com/
Univeral Classics (Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Philips - links to each)
record label search help: http://allrecordlabels.com/
lots of misc. label links: http://www.new-classics.co.uk/html/links.html
opera photos on eBay: http://www.stores.ebay.com/lascalaautographs/

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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/
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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