The IPA community covers the globe and connects singers and educators across many languages. We take pride in providing the web’s largest source of IPA transcriptions and text translations. To further help our network we have also gathered a list of additional resources of operas, translations and databases.
Links checked May, 2020
SOME GREAT RESOURCES
- Operabase Operabase has collected an extensive archive of more than 500,000 opera performances (over 100,000 artists), created powerful and flexible search and listing tools for accessing that data, and developed multilingual software in multiple languages.
OPERA COMPANIES
SCHOOLS AND RESOURCES
- Peterson’s List of Schools offering Music Degrees
- The College Music Society Home Page
- Opera America
- National Opera Association
- The Classical Singer
LIBRARIES AND ONLINE SCORES
- IMSLP Petrucci Music Library Wiki Scores
- Online Scores Indiana University’s opera and art song scores
- Levy Sheet Music 29,000 pieces of popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. Music published before 1923 is available online
- Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music (online scores)
- Händel scores
- Mozart scores
- Bach scores
- Project Gutenberg
- Indiana University Library
- Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Library
OPERA PLOTS AND LIBRETTI
- Rick Bogart’s Opera Glass A great site including a large amount of background info
- Baroque Libretti A few early libretti
SONG TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
- Aria Database – Main Index
- Texts of Lieder and Art Songs This is “the” source of song texts. Many with poetic translations but no IPA
- Lieder of the 20th century A list of compositions
- Bach Cantatas Website
- Musica International The virtual choral library.
REFERENCE
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera This online version is very expensive – $150 a year – you can try it free for 24 hours.
- RISM-US Homepage contains a catalog of libretti
TRANSLATORS
- Google Translate
- Babel Fish by Yahoo
- IM Translator This is a very useful tool
- German dictionary A great user-created dictionary
- French Dictionary from TV5Monde A full featured, quick online dictionary
- Your Dictionary English version
- Travlang’s Translating Dictionaries
- The Newbury House Dictionary of American English English with IPA
- OneLook Dictionary 12,739,111 words in 1065 dictionaries
- www.dictionary.net Definitions, rhymes, quotes and idioms
MIDI AND SUCH
MUSIC TO BUY
- Schubertline Instant online sheet music of lieder, songs and arias which may be viewed, played and printed in any key
- Make Music.com Additional online sheet music available for download
- CD Sheetmusic A wide selection of arias, plus Schubert songs and all the Verdi and Wagner vocal scores on CD-Rom
- Classical Vocal Reprints
- Wise Music Classical
- Alfred Vocal Music
- The Full Pitcher Music Resources Publisher of sheet music and Scorchfiles (for online printing), with ideas for improvisation, easy music for beginners, resources for schools/teachers, including special needs support
- Virtual Sheet Music Classical sheet music downloads with selected scores for piano, violin and other instruments
MUSIC TO HEAR AND SEE
- The Virtual Gramophone An extensive collection of early recordings (re-mastered) featuring Canadian artists
- Kultur Arts video