Sound recording cataloging
Internet
Performers' short biographies
(short biographies of every performer who has taken part in a recording
of Bach's vocal works: mainly singers,
conductors, chorus masters, choral and instrumental groups)
yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info:
in English, Russian, and Yiddish; performer biographies from the 79 RPM and
33 1/3 RPM eras.
Big bands, jazz, etc.
Big bands from Canada |
United States |
Great Britain |
Europe (1920s-1960s)
Solid! online encyclopedia
of big band music and classic jazz
Singers
Dutch divas in opera
& concert
(updates)
Grandi tenori ||
Historical tenors
Great
Russian voices (note: archived version of
the site)
Great
singers from a personal collection; some have dates of
birth/death
Malibran-Music specializing in
French song
Musicals
Who's who in
musicals
Opera
Čeští operni pěvci (Czech opera singers)
Historic opera
Includes images of singers (with biographical information)
(listed near top of page)
and listings of singers without images
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C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
H |
IJ |
K |
L |
M |
N |
OP |
QR |
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T |
UV |
WXYZ
Operaone
Print
Cowden, Robert H. Classical singers of the opera and recital stages: a
bibliography of biographical materials. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1994.
L128 V872 C8 1994
Kutsch, K.J. and Leo Riemens. Grosses Sängerlexikon. 3. erw.
Aufl. München: K.G. Saur, c1997.
ML105 K97 G8 1997
Sources
for authority work in cataloging popular music: bibliographies of print
sources for
blues,
country
and folk,
jazz,
musical
theater, and
miscellaneous
popular music
Jacobsson, Stig. Svenska tonsättare: diskografi. [Stockholm]
Rikskonserter, 1986, c1985.
HSR ML156.4 N2 S9
Who's who in opera: an international biographical directory of singers,
conductors, directors, designers, and administrators, also including profiles
of 101 opera companies. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
lsf ML102 O6 W5 (LC)