Opera

Archives of the Dresden Opera House from 1765 till 1900. Includes around 1,200 manuscripts for about 650 operas.

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Glyndebourne's Performance Archive contains information on performances dating back to 1934. Includes a Beginner's Guide to Opera.

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Materials go back to the Lyric's founding in 1954 and include lists of opera, musical, and recital performances and artists from past seasons.

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Digitized archives of the Paris Opera, divided into thematic groups: Journal of the Opera, administration, management registers, inventories, and the correspondence of Charles Nuitter, archivist of the Opera.

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The Met Opera's Archives Database has a Repertory Report, which lists works by number of performances and a Performers Report, which lists performers and conductors by number of performances.

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The National Negro Opera Company, the first African-American opera company in the United States, was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1941, by Mary Cardwell Dawson. The collection contains materials and records related to the company and to Dawson. It includes correspondence, administrative and financial records, photographs, programs, promotional and publicity materials, scrapbooks, clippings, address books, notebooks, music, and books.

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Digital archives of the Opéra-Comique and three other institutions that are historically linked to it: the Comédie-Italienne, the Théâtre Feydeau and the Théâtre-Italien. [Through Gallica]

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While the Royal Opera House's Performance Database gives varying amounts of information about casts, it does provide links to other ROH collections for sets, designs, photographs, and more.

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SFO's archive begins with the 1923-24 season. Includes lists of cast, conductor, stage director, chorus master, dates & times, and scans of programs.

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Information about opera and concert performances at La Scala since 1950; includes chronologies, casts, playbills, librettos, synopses, discographies, and thousands of images.

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The Historical Archive of La Fenice contains posters, photographs, opera & symphony scores covering more than two centuries of the theater's history.

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