Opera japonica/Links

Japan

Listed by area: all sites are in Japanese only, unless otherwise indicated.

English pages, when they do exist, may not offer any substantial information!

Tokyo

Classica Japan www.classicajapan.com/
Popular site for classical music news and links

Daily Classical Music Critique by Takamoto Hideyuki www2k.biglobe.ne.jp/~critique/

Geidankyo/Japan Council of Performers' Organizations (English/Japanese) www.geidankyo.or.jp/

HMV Japan (English) www.hmv.co.jp/help/Main.asp?

Japan Opera Foundation (also Fujiwara Opera, Nihon Opera Kyokai and Nihon Opera Shinkokai Singers Training School) www.jof.or.jp

Japan Performing Arts Net (English/Japanese) www.jpan.org/cont_e.html
Site "sponsored by the Japan Foundation to inform people round the world about Japanese performing arts". Has useful information about Japanese orchestras, but the site has not been maintained.

Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (English/Japanese) jphil.vcom.or.jp

Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra (English/Japanese) www.musicinfo.com/shinsei/

Mozart Theatre www.mozart.gr.jp/

Musashino Academia Musicae www.musashino-music.ac.jp/

Neo Wing www.cdjapan.co.jp

International CD and DVD mail ordering service (English)

New Japan Philharmonic www.njp.or.jp

New National Theatre, Tokyo (English/Japanese) www.nntt.jac.go.jp/

Nikikai Opera www.tvz.com/opera/nikikai/performance.html

Opera Salon Tonakai (opera restaurant) www.opera.co.jp

Poco a Poco Lirica Club www2.odn.ne.jp/~aaa60700/index.htm
Has various resources including libretti translated into Japanese.

Suntory Hall (English/Japanese) www.suntory.co.jp/suntoryhall/

Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra http://www.cityphil.gr.jp

Tokyo Opera City www.operacity-arts.co.jp

Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation (English/Japanese) www.tokyooperacity-cf.or.jp

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra (English/Japanese) www.tpo.or.jp

Tokyo Symphony, The (English/Japanese) www.tokyosymphony.com

Tokyo University of Arts (Geidai) Music Department www.geidai.ac.jp/

Tokyu Bunkamura Arts Centre (English/Japanese) www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/

Tower Records Japan International Page (English) www.towerrecords.co.jp/int/index.html

TVZ Opera www.tvz.com/opera

Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo www.yominet.or.jp/yomikyo

Osaka

Concerts of Classical Music in Kansai www.kh.rim.or.jp/~horin/

Lovely Hall at Kawachi Nagano City www3.osk.3web.ne.jp/~kcfoc/

Operetten Verein Kikagekikai (school) www.toshweb.net/operetta/

Osaka College of Music www.daion.ac.jp

Osaka College of Music Operahouse www.hi-ho.ne.jp/operahouse

Sakai City Opera www.ozemail.com.au/~sakaico/

Aichi Prefecture

Aichi Arts Foundation (English/Japanese) www.aac.pref.aichi.jp/sinkou/core.html

Nagoya College of Music www.doho.ac.jp/~meion/

Shiragawa Hall www.sumitomomarine.co.jp/SHI_1.htm

Gunma Prefecture

Gunma Orchestra www.sphere.ad.jp/takasaki/TAKASAKI/GUNKYOU-1.html

Hiroshima Prefecture

Hiroshima International Opera Studio www.enjoy.ne.jp/~sakoda/

Hokkaido

Sapporo Concert Hall 'Kitara' www.kitara-sapporo.or.jp/

Ibaraki Prefecture

Hitachi Civic Centre www.civic.or.jp/index.html

Hitachi Opera www.civic.or.jp/opera/index.html

Art Tower Mito (English/Japanese) www.arttowermito.or.jp/

Ishikawa Prefecture

Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (English/Japanese) www.oek.or.jp

Kanagawa Prefecture

Kanagawa Arts Foundation www.kanagawa-arts.or.jp/

Showa Academia Musicae/Showa Music University (English/Japanese) www.tosei-showa-music.ac.jp/

Japan Metropolitan Opera www2p.biglobe.ne.jp/~jmo

Kyoto

Kyoto City University of Arts Music Department www.kcua.ac.jp/indexj.html

Miyagi Prefecture

Sendai Opera Association www.li-tech.com/opera

Nagano Prefecture

Matsumoto Saito Kinen Festival www.matsumoto.ne.jp/user/skf/

Niigata Prefecture

Nagaoka City Foundation for Art and Culture Promotion www.nagaoka-caf.or.jp/

Shiga Prefecture

Shiga Opera Association www.biwa.or.jp/~kazu-sue/SOC.html

Tochigi Prefecture

Brian Chandler imaginatorium.org/stuff/carmen.htm

Tokushima Prefecture

Minoru Miki (composer) www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~m-miki/

Toyama Prefecture

Aubade Hall www.cap.or.jp/hic/au.html

Yamagata Prefecture

Yamagata Symphony Orchestra plaza9.mbn.or.jp/~yso_homepage

International

A limited selection of the best foreign sites:

Andante www.andante.com

Commercial New York classical music site offering news/reviews, selling CDs.

Andrews Classical LPs, Gale www.galeandrews.co.uk
LPs bought, sold and searched for

BBC Radio 3 www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/
Offering RealAudio feed which can be received with their embedded player or with the RealMedia G2 player on your system. They are broadcasting in 20 Kbps stereo.

Cantare L'opera www.cantarelopera.com

Charming Italian diction website

Classical Singer www.classicalsinger.com/
Singers magazine

Culturekiosque Operanet www.culturekiosque.com/opera/
French music magazine

Hawaii Opera Links www.hawaiiopera.org/True_Home/Links/links.html
List of world sites

La Scala, Milan lascala.milano.it

Music and Vision www.mvdaily.com
Daily Internet music magazine

New Grove Dictionary of Opera www.grovereference.com/grovemusic/operaonline

Opera Critic, The theoperacritic.com
Contains up-to-date news, reviews and articles on opera, plus regular features, webcasts etc.

OperaGlass rick.stanford.edu/opera/
Index of opera performance histories, synopses, background notes and discographies

OPERA magazine www.opera.co.uk/
Classic world opera publication, 50 years old in February 2000

Opera Quarterly www3.oup.co.uk/operaq/
Respected opera journal. You can register to receive the latest table of contents automatically by e-mail.

OperadiO www.operadiO.com
Multi-channel Internet opera radio broadcasting, streamed from Dallas but run from London

Operissimo www.operissimo.com/
Database of operas, performers, composers, and operahouses

Perle Nere, Le (The Black Pearls) www.opera.it/Barcacc/Perle/Perle.html
Italian site with great mistakes in opera (sound files)

Mike Richter www.mrichter.com/
Pioneer publisher of Opera CD-ROMs, sound clips etc.

Tosca's Rome www.toscasrome.com/
Gateway to the Tosca 2000 Conference in Rome

Opera japonica, 21 November 2003