Opera websites

• Bachtrack is a new and powerful website providing listings and search facilities for concerts, recordings, radio stations and services of all sorts

• Visit the Operabase website to search for the last, current and announced future seasons of each opera house. Most of Operabase’s information is provided free of charge, but it is limited in scope: http://operabase.com/intro.cgi?lang=en

• A new website for concert and opera reviews, articles and interviews on the web: http://www.musicalcriticism.com/

• A new website bringing together classical music fans and musicians: http://www.dilettantemusic.com/

• http://www.bach-cantatas.com/ A comprehensive site covering all aspects of Bach’s cantatas and his other vocal works and over 3,900 short biographies of performers of Bach’s vocal works (singers, conductors, vocal and instrumental groups) and players of his keyboard works. Webmaster: Aryeh Oron

• Music reviews and features:http://www.musicomh.com/

• Karadar Classical Music site. – very useful for information about composers and their works, and where opera libretti and lieder text (with translations) can be found:  http://www.karadar.it/Default.htm

Opera house, concert and festival websites

We’ve listed a few main venues, but for a comprehensive review of opera houses round the world we suggest this site:

http://www.operastuff.com/Opera_Houses/index.html

United Kingdom

• Aldeburgh Festival: http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk
• Edinburgh Festival: http://www.eif.co.uk
• Glasgow – Theatre Royal: http://www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyalglasgow/
• Glyndebourne Festival: http://www.glyndebourne.com/
• Leeds – Grand Theatre: http://www.leedsgrandtheatre.com/
• London – Barbican Centre:http://www.barbican.org.uk/index.html
• London – English National Opera, The London Coliseum: http://www.eno.org/
• London – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London: http://www.royalopera.org/
• London – Wigmore Hall: http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/index.cfm
• Manchester – Bridgewater Hall: http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/
• Scottish Opera: http://www.scottishopera.org.uk/cms/

Europe

• Barcelona – Gran Teatre del Liceu: http://www.liceubarcelona.com/teatreliceu.asp
• Berlin Phiharmoniker: http://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/
• Brussels – La Monnaie Opera House: http://www.lamonnaie.be/
• Geneva – Grand Théâtre de Genève: http://www.geneveopera.ch/
• Lucerne Festival: http://e.sommer.lucernefestival.ch
• Madrid – Teatro Real: http://www.teatro-real.com/
• Moscow – Bolshoi Theatre: http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/
• Munich: www.bayerische-staatsoper.de
• Paris – Théâtre du Chatelet: http://www.chatelet-theatre.com/index.php
• Paris – Opera National de Paris (Garnier and Bastille Opera Houses): http://www.opera-de-paris.fr/
• Salzburg – Easter Festival: http://www.osterfestspiele-salzburg.at/en/
• Salzburg Festival: http://www.salzburgfestival.at/home_e.php?lang=2
• Schwarzenberg Schubertiade: http://www.schubertiade.at/
• Vienna – Konzerthaus: http://konzerthaus.at/hoehepunkte/

·        Vienna – Musikverein:http://www.musikverein.at/konzerte/konzerte.asp?sprache_id=2

• Vienna – Staatsoper: http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node2/intro.php
• Vienna – Theater an der Wien: http://www.theater-wien.at/spielplan/kalender/
• Zürich: www.opernhaus.ch

North America & Canada

• Atlanta Symphony: http://www.atlantasymphony.org/

·        Canadian Opera Company (Toronto): http://www.coc.ca/

·        Chicago – Lyric Opera: http://www.lyricopera.org/

• Cleveland: http://www.clevelandorchestra.com/html/index.asp
• Los Angeles – Walt Disney Concert Hall: http://wdch.laphil.com/home.cfm
• New York – The Metropolitan Opera House: http://www.metoperafamily.org/
• San Francisco Opera: http://www.sfopera.com/

Japan

• Tokyo – Bunkamura Orchard Hall: http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/index.html