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Singing
These links are all those that are broadly pertinent to singing or singers, whether your genre is opera, art song, or oratorio. Symbol interpretation, diction and translation, and travel links are some of the treasures you'll find here. Check out the opera and art song sections too--and an oratorio collection may be in the works as well!Browse through the links below or see the category menu on the left. See the Home page to read about the newest links, books, and songs I've added; or subscribe to the monthly newsletter.
 The sites that I think are particularly practical for day-to-day work are marked with a toolbox icon. Many of the other sites are also excellent and worth your perusal.
General-Interest Singing Links
- Singers' Bibliography (at this site)
- VOCALIST Worldwide
- Classical Singer (previously the New York Opera Newsletter; a print publication and a partially free website. When you subscribe you get access to great audition and job info)
- Classical MIDI with words
- The Singing Voice (they also have a news community here)
- Tenorland
- National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
- Center for Voice Disorders
- Alexander Massey's Homepage (includes links, articles, and other items pertinent to singing, voice teaching, music therapy, and other research)
- Nimbus RealAudio Prima Voce page (over 200 Real Audio recordings of "Golden Age" singers--wow!)
- Bassocantante's Opera Shop (great old recordings in RealAudio, history, anecdotes and information, and wonderful old humorous opera stories)
- A Brief History of Singing
- YourType (lots of free practical NYC information for singers combined with promotional and practical services for sale)
- VoicePerformance.com (a site about performance and technique by Shirlee Emmons)
- Earl Okin Record Resource (a resource on historical singers particularly of interest to 78 collectors; lots of pictures!)
- Douglas Anderson, coach (NYC voice coach for singers and speakers; promotional site only)
- Soprano Central (bios and info for a lot of sopranos and a few mezzos)
Translation, Transliteration, and Diction
- The Diction Domain Home Page (a page with links to many more diction and language resources than the ones here)
- travlang's Translating Dictionaries (more dictionaries than you can shake a stick at! All the regulars plus Czech, Portuguese, Dutch, Esperanto, and more!)
- ASCII IPA (A page which describes some common ways of writing International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) characters on the web)
- Russian-English dictionary
- Pan-European Internet Explorer 4.0 Language Support (includes Russian; look on the page for Multi-lingual support)
Competitions
- Young Concert Artists, Inc.
- McAllister Awards
- See this collection of competitions at Laura Claycomb's site
Travel Links
- Biztravel
- Currency Converter (current or past, over 180 currencies)
- Weather
- Amtrak
- Amtrak reservations
- Zagat restaurant reviews (for on the road)
- CuisineNet (more restaurant reviews)
- Microsoft Expedia Travel Agent
- MapQuest (for directions and maps in America)
Want some books to read on the road? Try the novels in our book list! Fonts
- International Phonetic Alphabet
- Summer Institute of Language I.P.A. fonts for Mac and Windows--they are free, and look great!
- Pan-European Internet Explorer 4.0 Language Support (includes Russian; look on the page for Multi-lingual support)
Catalogs and PublishersDistributor retail catalogs (buy from these)
- Classical Vocal Repertoire--look at their website! an excellent source not only for both out-of-print and hard-to-find music but also for all of the standard scores and anthologies. Please try them out!Classical Vocal Reprints/ 3253 Cambridge Ave./ Riverdale, NY 10463-3618/ email: ClasVocRep@aol.com/ tel: (800)298-7474 or (718)601-1959/ fax: (718)601-1969
- T.I.S. Vocal Music Catalog
Publishers' perusal catalogs (rent from these)
I have transferred the list of publishers to the Music page. Also see the individual song sources in the Diva's Descriptive Song Catalog. Myths and Symbols
These days very few of us are completely connected with all the religious, classical and folklore allusions that are so important to understanding many songs and operas. Many of the following links are practical and useful in correctung those blanks in our current symbolic vocabulary--so many that I include our toolbox icon for the whole category.
- The Encyclopedia Mythica
- The Mystica
- Bulfinch's Mythology
- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- History of Homosexuality
- Labyrinth Home Page
- Myths and Legends
- NetSERF (information on Medieval times)
- Perseus Project Home Page
- Symbolism
- Lexical FreeNet not exactly symbolism but handy and very cool
- Celtic World
Web Page Résumé Builders for Classical Singers
- YourType (I have seen these web resumes and been impressed--they follow through with search engine submission and in general produce a very good-looking, professional site)
- Classical Singer (via Guyarts)
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