BBC Opera Season – featured companies:

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne - Knight Crew site

Metropolitan Opera, New York

Bayreuth Festival

Selected weblinks:

Operastuff bills itself as 'A World of Opera to Explore'. It is a comprehensive links directory covering artists, books, broadcasts, composers, goods and services, magazines, opera companies worldwide, operas, recordings, sheet music.

Operabase is a listings-based database which has documented operatic activity worldwide since 1996, with over 240,000 performances on file. It records the work of artists in over 600 theatres, and publishes season information to opera-goers in 17 languages. Daily updates offer births, deaths and performance highlights. Most of the information in Operabase is free; in addition, the subscription service, Operabase Professional, offers tools for opera houses, artists and their managers.

Operacast is the place to find information about operatic broadcasts on the Internet.

OperaGlass offers detailed information on many operas, including libretti, source texts, performance histories, synopses, discographies, pictures, commemoration calendars, special features, and pointers to other opera information sites.

The Opera Critic is a subscription website offering reviews and news of current happenings in opera from around the world.

Parterre Box is a web-based magazine devoted to opera, with strongly opinionated attitudes including the gay experience of opera.

Opera America is the national service organisation for US opera companies. The website offers resources for managers, singers, company members and educators.

Opera Europa is the support organisation for European professional opera companies and festivals.

Historic Opera displays a private collection of opera postcards, stereo cards, trade cards, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and sheet music.