CDs and DVDs (LPs and VHS)
Use the UCLA Library Catalog to find CDs and DVDs of opera/operetta/musical theatre recordings.To find CDs (or LPs) limit your keyword, author or title search to "sound recordings." To find DVDs (or VHS) limit your keyword, author or title search to "visual materials."
Online Audio and Audio-Visual Materials
UCLA offers several music audio/audio-visual databases that are searchable by composer or title.
Online Audio
- Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
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Provides musical sound recordings and MIDI files, program notes, reference texts (composer biographies, history, and glossary), and images. The music includes vocal and instrumental works from the Middle Ages through to the present. Users navigate through browse lists, a search engine and music track playlists - DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new window
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Recordings and scholarly resources on modern and contemporary American art music ("new music") and other avant garde genres. - Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
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Streaming audio recordings of mostly classical music from Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo, and several other major labels.
Online Audio-Visual
- Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to a high definition video library of close to 1000 performances of recitals, concerts, operas, ballets, and documentaries. Also available is streamed access to many live events that can be viewed in real time or through several delayed broadcasts.
An American in Paris, 1951
This image is part of the Motion Picture Stills, 1903-- collection. You can view a larger version of this image, or other filmed musical stills in this collection via the UCLA Library Digital Collections.