Theatre, Entertainment Technology, and Acting Research Guide: Opera and Musical Theatre

Comprehensive site housed at Stanford University. Information on libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, composers, librettists, list of operas, access to the educational Opera for Everyone CDs which cover Madama Butterfly, Carmen, La Traviata, and The Barber of Seville. List of operas with fewer that six performers.

Commercial site with many links to opera resources, some of which are selling opera merchandise like sheet music or CDs.

Searchable database of the text and translations of most of the over 1100 arias and MIDI files for some. Maintained by a voice instructor.

Comprehensive site created by a professor of musical theatre history. Well organized, attractive, and easy to use, the site has history in general as well as history of specific musicals and performer biographies. Reviews, essays, how to put on a musical are included. Covers 1700-2000's. Information on vaudeville, minstrel shows, and burlesque also.