Research Guides: Opera &amp; Operetta: A Guide to Research and Resources: Streaming Opera Resources

Opera from Specific Houses

Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
Provides video and/or audio streaming access to over 500 productions from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, including recent videos from the Met’s Live in HD series, telecasts from the 1970s-2000s, and radio broadcasts dating back to 1936. New additions monthly.
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Digital Concert Hall (Berlin Philharmonic) This link opens in a new window
Live-streamed concert broadcasts, an archive of past concerts from 1966 to the present, and music-related documentaries and interviews. Create a free account to use this database.
See especially their opera concerts.

Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Presents key performances from the operatic canon featuring world-class singers, conductors, and opera houses, captured on streaming video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

medici.tv: Operas--Films
Click this link for a list of the opera productions in medici.tv (see full description of this resource under the Music tab).

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Offers the world's largest online classical music library, with streaming access to more than 120,000 CDs of both the standard and rare repertoire in all genres. The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs plus the complete catalogs or selected titles from over 650 other recording labels, with more labels joining monthly. Also includes some jazz, world, and pop/rock music.
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Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Provides a large and continually growing database of streamed classical music recordings originally issued on a wide variety of labels. Chronological coverage spans all periods from Gregorian chant to works by contemporary composers, with repertoire ranging from vocal and choral music, to solo instrumental, chamber, and orchestral compositions and opera.

IPA Source
The web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions & literal translations of aria and art song texts