Music Resource Guide: Opera, Theatre, & Film

A collection of information about opera and operatic arias. Offers basic information about each aria, translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions. The database also provides access to a collection of operatic MIDI files. The database holds the complete operatic aria collections of Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Wagner, and Puccini as well as the partial collection of over 50 other composers.

Self described as "the world's most complete and constantly updated opera and concert database," Operissimo Concertissimo covers the works of more than 27,500 artists, 7,300 composers with 28,500 of their works played in 340 opera houses around the world. Search by composer, works, or artist.

This is the website for New York's Metropolitan Opera. Along with schedule and ticket information, this site offers the Metopera Database which provides searchable information on all Met performances, performers, and repertory. In addition, the site offers a timeline of photos and brief sound recordings from operas performed at the Met since 1880 and a similar timeline of radio and TV history since 1910.

An "index to the operas, plays, and sacred oratorios and dramas in the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive and in Frazer Charlton's Edwardian Musical Comedy web site [...] It includes all of Gilbert's stage works; all of Sullivan's operas, cantatas, and sacred oratorios; all other operas played at the Savoy Theatre from its opening in 1881 through the first decade of the 20th century. Many of the entries include librettos, playscripts, and/or plot summaries.

An opera information service provided by Rick Bogart of Stanford University, this website offers detailed information on operas, including libretti, source texts, synopses, discographies, and performance histories. Also includes an index of opera composers.

The website of the Boston Lyric Opera provides ticket and performance schedules, as well as information regarding its education programs for children and adults.

This is an index of known libretto pages, arranged by composer and name of the opera and provided by H. Weber.

Musicals.Net is a non-commercial website which provides a place for people to learn about musicals. The website includes lyrics, synopsis, songlists, and forums about specific musicals.

Produced by John Kenrick, a theatre history expert, this is an extensive website providing musical chronologies (stage, screen and television), histories of theatres, composers, and performers, comprehensive histories of specific musicals, photo galleries, sample lyrics and scenes, and much more.

Talkin' Broadway provides current news, discussion, and information about Broadway, and theatre in Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago and other cities across the United States. The staff of Talkin' Broadway volunteers their time in maintaining the site. Includes review articles (including regional reviews), historical information about Broadway, Tony awards, and a searchable CastAlbum Database.

The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) provides an organization for theatre scholars and promotes theatre as a field for serious scholarly study. The website provides conference and membership information, the text of the current Society's newsletter, and an extensive set of web links.

Film Music Magazine is a trade magazine for the film, television and video game music industry. It contains articles about the art and business of writing music for film, television and many interactive projects. Most articles are available in full-text. Includes a searchable directory of the entertainment industry covering actors, writers, and film and TV music, production, and support.