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The best information on the web about male soprano singers; who they are, what they have recorded and when. A wonderful resource.

William and Gayle Cook Music Library. Not a lot of 18th-century opera. Some Handel, Gluck and Mozart.

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

Download it, print it out, and share it. Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg but consists of free sheet music.

IMSLP attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge.

The online music archive of The Danish Royal Academy of Music contains several thousand sheets of music, mainly classical music, contemporary music and some jazz-tunes. All material is available for free use in accordance with RAMA's terms and conditions.

Fac-similé.org is a site designed to help you find freely available sheet music on the net.

Atrium Maucamedi : a web site for Medieval Music.

Wikipedia provides a surprising number of free aria and lieder scores. If you want something particular, it's well worth checking here.

An absolutely wonderful site with a huge searchable database of images of period art from the 12th to mid-19th centuries. Constantly being expanded.

Another great site. One of the largest on-line museums on the internet, with art images from the Renaissance to the present day.
    The ARC is in the vanguard of a movement which rejects modernism as being a betrayal of our artistic heritage. Is it too inflexible? Picasso is rejected, Chagall is ignored.

One of the largest and most comprehensive online collections. Over 10,000 works of art with information about artists and their artwork.

Directory of free libretti and synopses resources on the net.

A really great classical music site belonging to the Karadar Bertoldi Ensemble. An enormous library of downloadable mp3s and a huge information database of composer biographies, works and portraits as well as lied texts and libretti.

Baroque enthusiasts naturally concentrate on the music of the 18th century but most make an exception of Rossini's operas. This Rossini fan gives us information and libretti. Great work!

Amazing site. Potpourri of wonderful quirky and collectible music. Not to be missed!

Jean-Claude Brenac's wonderful site devoted to Baroque opera. Excellent reference library as well as a magazine with a monthly editorial and up-to-date information about CD releases, with reviews. In French.

Everything you could possibly want to know about Greek mythological figures you will find here. A truly great site. In Spanish and English.

A fine educational site covering all aspects of music in the Baroque.

Offers a comprehensive collection of information and news on classical music subjects including articles and CD reviews, composers and their music, the basic repertoire, recommended classical music recordings and a CD buying guide. Classical music lovers should bookmark this site.

A Herculean labour of love with texts of hundreds of art songs. It is the source of a number of texts given here.

Web site of the Goldberg Magazine for lovers of Early Music. Up-to-date information about recordings, festivals, performers and associations as well as historical info about Baroque composers. In English, French and Spanish.

A diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias, searchable by aria, opera, composer, role. Includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles.

Interesting site in English and Japanese devoted to fine and unusual music and voices. Visitors to this site will probably be specially interested in the page about arias written for Farinelli and other castrati. A good range of high-quality music samples here provides an excellent opportunity to compare voices and techniques.

John Wall's excellent site to promote historically inspired performances of early music and opera. A great source of information about recordings, with recommendations and listings of new and forthcoming releases.

Founder of the Sirius record company, this great Greek composer changed the face of Greek modern classical music. He took a strong personal interest in Aris and was influential in the development of his career. This Sirius site is dedicated to his memory and his work.

A short discussion of bel canto and definition of what it is.

Andrea Coen plays fortepiano, harpsichord and organ. He and Aris have worked together many times.

Long listing of articles and books on the subject. Part of The Male Soprano Page (see link above).

A wonderful resource for anyone interested in Early Music. The site also has information about non-Western classical music.

Interesting site about the Baroque period in France.

The official web site of the writer Anne Rice whose book "Cry to Heaven", first published in the early 1980s, continues to evoke such strong popular interest in the castrati, in the Baroque period and in the music of the time. Thank you, Anne, for this and for your other compelling novels.

Wonderful information source about operas and composers. In Italian.

Extensive German Opera Dictionary

Excellent site dedicated to Baroque music, particularly to Handel. In Italian.

Excellent site devoted to Mozart.

Definitions

Dictionary of musical terms.

Paul Baker's excellent directory site with links to fine sites for classical music and jazz, art, hifi, video, theatre, and film.

Directory of hundreds of sites devoted to all aspects of life in the eighteenth century, including music.

No connection whatsoever to this web site but one of the great treasures of the net. Quirky, often hilarious, labyrinthine personal site of an inmate of Arizona. Read about The Freedom Project, The (real-life) Simpsons, Switcheroo, The Mojave Phone Booth, Wagner and other excellent miscellanea. It is held together by a passionate devotion to the cause for personal liberty. Say it again, DoC - and again and again!