Mount A Libraries: Music Subject Guide: Opera Workshop

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Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Contains 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. Works of major and lesser known composers, Renaissance to 21st century.
IMSLP: Petrucci Music Library This link opens in a new window
The International Music Score Library Project features a large and growing collection of downloadable public domain music.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Streaming audio service; more than a million tracks of music across a broad spectrum of styles and periods. Important note: we have a limited number of user spaces for this resource. Please log out when you’re done.

IPA Source This link opens in a new window
"The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts."
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the Oxford Companion to Music, and Grove Music Online. Grove is the most comprehensive source of the three, and may be easier to search on its own for some topics. To do so, use the Grove Music Online link in the A-Z list.

The Libretti of Mozart's Completed Operas, Vol. 1-2 by Edited by Nico Castel
Call Number: ML 49 .M83 C3 1997 (Music Course Reserve)
ISBN: 1878617214
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Libretti with IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcriptions and word for word translations. Includes guide to IPA and notes on Italian and German transcriptions.
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera by Stanley Sadie (Editor)
Call Number: ML 102 .O6 N5 1992 Music Reference
ISBN: 0935859926
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Incorporating a decade of musicological research, the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality, with contributions from over 1,300 of the world's leading critics and scholars. A remarkable 11,000 articles, all fully cross-referenced, create a work that has become established as the essential opera reference.

Here are some useful call numbers for finding opera scores and books about opera in the Music Library:

M 1500: Operas -- Full Scores

M 1503: Operas -- Vocal Scores

M 1507-M 1508: Opera excerpts, vocal scores

ML 102 .O6: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias about Opera (most in Reference Section)

ML 410 .M9: Books about Mozart and his music

ML 1700: General works about opera

ML 1720-ML 1729: Opera, by country -- Western Europe

ML 3858: Philosophical, societal, psychological aspects of opera

Mozart on the Stage by John Rice
Call Number: ML 410 .M9 R538 2009
ISBN: 9780521816342
Publication Date: 2009-01-22
Mozart's Operas by Mary Hunter
Call Number: ML 410 .M9 H895 2008
ISBN: 9780300118339
Publication Date: 2008-12-09
Mozart and His Operas by David Cairns
Call Number: ML 410 .M9 C253 2006
ISBN: 0520228987
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas by Kristi Brown-Montesano
Call Number: ML 410 .M9 B8195 2007
ISBN: 0520248023
Publication Date: 2007-02-07
Unsettling Opera by David J. Levin
Call Number: ML 3858 .L48 2010
ISBN: 9780226475233
Publication Date: 2010-12-01