ABOUT

This site contains an array of resources for the study of operas (most unavailable in modern editions) that were contemporaneous with the life of Beethoven (1770–1827), who was notoriously frustrated in his attempts to succeed in the world of opera. Its holdings include 483 manuscripts, reproductions of printed libretti for every work listed, and an extensive metadata apparatus for basic information on composers, performances, and sources. Its reach is broader than the title suggests, for works performed in France, Austria, and elsewhere beyond Italy and Germany are found. In cases in which an included opera has an anterior antecedent, metadata is also given for the pre-existing opera, even when it predates the new work by as much as a century. This enables a reader to trace some of the long tendrils of gestation that might otherwise be found only in a critical edition. The manuscript sources used in Opera come from libraries in Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Weimar. Wolf-Dieter (romance languages) and Wolfram Steinbeck (musicology) are the project leaders.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Repository

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<10000 items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Symbolic

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music history

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musicology

SCOPE

items are gathered by

Genre

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Geographical

AUDIENCE

researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Descriptive Metadata

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

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Data Dump

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Human Consumption

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Interoperable format

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Query Interface