

Through the Lens of Opera Inside Adams January 5, 2012.Sonneck’s Obsession and Putnam’s Pursuit: Commissioning Transcripts of Opera in Full Score In the Muse June 4, 2014.Opera Onstage, Drama Offstage (Metropolitan Opera) Library of Congress Blog October 22, 2014.Opera Goes to the Bastille In the Muse July 7, 2011.Nocturnal Sounds Inspired the Comic Opera The Frogs of Windham In the Muse July 21, 2016.No Opera, No X-Rays! Inside Adams August 23, 2013.Nancy Yunhwa Rao Speaks About Chinese Opera Folklife Today August 2, 2017.A (Married) Life at the Opera Library of Congress Blog August 15, 2013.Chinese Opera in North America Library of Congress Blog August 1, 2017.Of Cantonese Opera and Guatemalan Marimba Now See Hear! July 24, 2014.Mary Cardwell Dawson: First Lady of Opera In the Muse March 1, 2019.The Belle Brown Collection: An American Opera Student at the Turn of the 20th Century In the Muse December 2, 2013.All That Jazz … and Humor, Opera, Dance Music.


Operas Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca.Opera The Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America.Marian Anderson Performed at the Metropolitan Opera America’s Library.The Metropolitan Opera House Opens in New York America’s Library.Guided Primary Source Analysis: Victrola Book of the Opera Justice streaming video of opera performance Justice by Composer Roger Reynolds article #Opera Before Instagram: Portraits, 1890–1955 online exhibition Metropolitan Opera House printed ephemera More Metropolitan Opera House historical newspaper coverage The First Metropolitan Opera House – Topics in Chronicling America Be sure not to miss this Library treasure, The Victrola Book of the Opera, an interactive digital book that describes 110 operas and allows you to listen to nearly every recording referenced in the book! In addition to staging operas, the Met and other opera houses also hosted charity events, community dances, fairs, plays, vaudeville shows, and even funerals. Find out more about this prestigious cultural institution by visiting the Today in History section, then click the links below to access more primary sources related to the Met and opera. Today in History–October 22–the Library of Congress features New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, which opened its doors on this day in 1883.
