wadijedo@a... wrote: wadijedo@a... wrote:
> Hi Vocalists, > I am singing the song The Black Swan for my jury. I have looked for hours > trying to find the actual opera "The Medium." > Does anyone have a site that has operas with the text? > Also, I am looking for info on the son "The Mock Suns" In German it is "Die > Nebensonnen" the music that I have does not have the composer on it. > Thank you in advance. > Janis
I agree with those who suggest the music library. However, another excellent resource for information about opera is the Opera-L archives. It is searchable in an easy-to-use web interface. Here's the URL:
http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/opera-l.html
A resource on-line can be opera companies, which often put an opera synopsis on-line as a sales tool, and production pictures, too. The Medium gets a lot of productions in the USA, so you might try a Google search <http://www.google.com> And newspaper/magazine reviews are also good to read. For example, you might have fun looking at New York Times or Time Magazine reviews of when the opera premiered in the 1950's. Most good libraries have the NY Times on some kind of microfilm or microfiche going back to well before you (and I) were born.
Also, all of Menotti's operas were composed recently enough to still be copyright protected. That means you won't find the libretto on the World Wide Web.
You'll find some information about the opera and the context of your aria in the front section of the Schirmer glossy-cover soprano aria anthology. Some have mentioned Kobbe's Opera Book and the Viking Opera guide as a good resource, and another excellent opera library resource that is found in good public libraries (if there's no college/university-quality music library handy) is the New Grove Dictionary of Opera. It has detailed plot synopses. Another great resource, which I bought on Amazon a few years back, is the Da Capo Opera Manual. This has all kinds of relatively obscure operas in it.
Peggy
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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