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About Opera in Video

1. About the Database

Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. The collection presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas in music history, opera literature, and performance classes. Multiple performances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.

Performances will cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the 20th century. Performances currently targeted for Opera in Video include Carmen, with Maria Ewing conducted by Zubin Mehta (1991); Billy Budd, with Thomas Allen and Richard Langridge conducted by David Atherton (1988); Julius Caesar, with Janet Baker, Sarah Walker, and Valerie Masterson conducted by Charles Mackerras (1984); L’Africaine, with Placido Domingo, Shirley Verrett, and Ruth Ann Swenson conducted by Maurizio Arena (1988); La Bohème, with Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, and Nicolai Ghiaurov conducted by Tiziano Severini (1988); Capriccio, with Kiri Te Kanawa, Simon Keenlyside, and Victor Braun conducted by Donald Runnicles (1993); Orlando Furioso, with Marilyn Horne, Susan Patterson, and Sandra Walker conducted by Randall Behr (1989); Aida, with Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti, and Nicolai Ghiaurov conducted by Lorin Maazel (1985); The Rake’s Progress, with Kiri Te Kanawa, Felicity Lott, Frederica von Stade, Ileana Cotrubas, and Thomas Allen conducted by Sylvain Cambreling (1996); plus many more.

Specially developed controlled vocabularies let users browse by composer, genre, performer, ensemble, time period, and role.

Critical Video Editions: The Alexander Street Critical Video Editions Series combines the excitement of video with the uniquely powerful search capabilities our collections are known for. We’ve developed software applications that make use of Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ to enable precise searching and finding; easy browsing and moving about; citations down to the second; searchable narration and transcripts; embeddable links; user-created annotations; ways to combine video with other content; and more. These new features and capabilities render video as useful for research and classroom use any scholarly text.

Our Critical Video Editions™ feature:

  • streaming, quickly accessible online video at 400 and 800 kbps with no delays
  • uniquely powerful browse and search capabilities enabled by the Semantic Indexing Alexander Street is known for
  • point-of-need access—reach the right scene to link down to the exact second you want
  • synchronized, searchable opera subtitles
  • video clip-making tools
  • annotated playlists—you can make, annotate, and share playlists for course or individual use
  • high quality, licensed, in-copyright material

    • Advanced features coming soon:

  • synchronized, full-text transcripts of secondary sources that let users read related narratives (a director’s commentary, for example) while you watch
  • the ability to create synchronized annotations and multi-media presentations
  • an embeddable video player and play list for use on a class Web site, library home page, or an electronic syllabus—lets you drive usage and deliver content to users where and when they need it without instructions or countless screens and clicks
  • Open URL compliance

    • 2. Acknowledgements

    At Alexander Street Press, the following people have been instrumental in the development of the collection:

    • Andrea Eastman-Mullins
    • Christina Chamberlain
    • David Vaughn
    • Greg Knapp
    • Joanna Koslowsky
    • John Field
    • Liz Dutton
    • Nazar Sharunenko
    • Pat Carlson
    • Paul Dixon
    • Roger Press
    • Will Whalen

    3. Outside Acknowledgements