Lyrics and Libretti

This database, maintained by Robert Glaubitz, is a collection of texts and translations to over 1,000 operatic arias. Additional information such as setting, range, and available recordings is also available.

A free web archive of the texts to over fifteen thousand Lieder in over thirty languages with thousands of translations. Recently the site has added texts to choral works, madrigals and part-songs. Songs are indexed by composer, poet, first line, title, language and song cycle.

This database consists records of over 3,000, Italian, mostly opera libretti donated by Hans P. Kraus to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The collection also documents Italian and other European musical performances from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

Opera-Arias.com is an aria database containing information about more than 150 Opera Composers, 470 Operas, 2,800 Opera Arias, 800 Opera Duets, 570 Opera Ensembles and a total of over 7,400 Opera Scenes.

Library of Congress collection of more than 12,000 libretti, including many first and early Italian, German and French editions from the 17th and 18th centuries, collected by German music dealer Albert Schatz (1839-1910).

On online directory to web sites posting opera libretti and vocal texts.