LOTS OF FREE OPERA FOR THE TAKING

[tenlittlebullets]

OKAY THIS DESERVES ITS OWN POST

http://sictransitoperamundi.blogspot.com/

Gigantic collection of links to download operas. GIGANTIC. Very heavy on Donizetti, Rossini, and Puccini, but has a little bit of everything, and whoever maintains it tends to post five or six different versions of the same opera in a row now and then, just for variety. :D

I'm not entirely sure how I stumbled across this but it is FANTASTIC and I'm probably going to have several DVD-Rs burned with all the shinies I'm grabbing from here.

Comments

[nowgoesquickly.livejournal.com]

This is an amazing site, and not only do they have tons of opera, they have Jascha Heifetz and Sarah Chang, too. Thanks for the tip.

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

I recommend you listen to this version of Manon:
http://sictransitoperamundi.blogspot.com/2009/07/massenet-jules-manon.html

(Hint: Look who plays Lescaut. :D)

[mmebahorel.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god. I don't even know where to start. (well, I do know - Puccini's entire oeuvre, but there's so much! SO MUCH!!!!)

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

I know right? It's the huge number of semi-obscure bel canto operas that has me slack-jawed in awe, but really I just want to grab EVERYTHING.

Somewhere on one of the earlier pages there's a still-active link to Leoncavallo's version of La Bohème!

[josiana.livejournal.com]

...*delighted flailing*

[reconditarmonia.livejournal.com]

Oh man, the first page has La Vestale. I wonder how many other obscure operas from that period they have. (I used to have a copy or two of it, but deleted because I didn't actually like it and was just using it for research - La Muette de Portici, on the other hand, I got for research and kept.)