Opera Forum at Opera Lively

This is where we'll be parking our 'reference' threads about essential operas, vocal techniques, opera terms, and other educational materials

This forum will be the home for educational threads for beginners, but can also please the seasoned opera fan by addressing the history of opera, contemporary trends...

This is the forum for recommendations and "top" lists, such as the preferred Opera Lively Top 100 Operas renderings on CD and DVD/Blu-ray and other similar lists

Here is where we will post all opera-related chat that is not included in the other forums.

This forum is for your review of opera recorded on visual and audio media.

Here is where you post your review of an opera you've attended in person, or through broadcasts to movie theaters.

Singer news, schedules, and chat about singers belong here.

Not operatic but close enough to belong here rather than in the off-topic area. This is for lieder, choral, religious, and other non-operatic classical vocal music

While Opera Lively is a site for operatic music, fans of opera are often fans of other genres of classical music as well, so feel free to talk about your favorite genres here. This is for classical music only, no other genres, please. Vocal classical music has its own sub-forum, grouped above with operatic music. Non-classical music (jazz, pop, etc.) belongs in the "Off-topic" section below.

This forum is for community building. General chit-chat, light banter, humor, general topics of interest that are not linked to opera are welcome here, except Politics and Religion which are topics banned from Opera Lively. Non-classical musical genres belong here, as well as cinema, literature, sports, etc.

This area is for housekeeping announcements from the staff. Only staff can start threads here but all registered members can reply

This is for newcomers to make themselves known to our community

We'll allow classifieds here and only here, as long as what is advertised is opera or classical music-related, legitimate, and with respect for copyrights. We reserve the right to remove ads that do not comply with the above.

Este Foro es para charlar de Opera en Español

Este subforum é para discussões sobre óperas cantadas em qualquer língua, mas com mensagens somente em português.

Questa zona è per i posti in italiano, sull'opera in qualsiasi lingua

Cette partie du forum est là pour qu'on puisse parler d'opéras chantés dans n'importe quelle langue, mais les messages doivent être seulement en français

Hier könnt ihr in deutscher Sprache über Oper sprechen