Free Opera Scores!

Public Domain Opera Scores On-line

© Bryce Westervelt

Mar 2, 2007
Free Opera Scores! Public domain opera scores are available for free online by the University of Indiana School of Music. List of available free opera scores.

Having a difficult time tracking down and opera score? Do you want to learn a new opera aria without having to buy the entire score? Indiana University and the William and Gayle Cook Music Library have released what they call a “demo page” of public domain Opera Scores. This collection contains some piano vocal and some full orchestral scores. This is a great resource for opera singer and fan alike. Imagine being able to listen to the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast with access to the score as you listen. Thanks to the IU school of music, listeners can do just that.

Currently available scores:

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

  • Fidelio (1814); Overtures to Leonore, nos. 1-3

Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835.

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869

  • Les Troyens

Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875.

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.

  • Pelleas et Melisande

Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848.

Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893.

  • Faust

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.

  • Acis and Galatea
  • Agrippina
  • Alcina

Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1854-1921.

  • Hänsel und Gretel

Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912.

  • Don Quichotte
  • Manon
  • Werther

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

  • Huguenots

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881.

  • Boris Gudonov

Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880.

  • Les Contes d'Hoffman

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.

  • Dido and Aeneas

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908.

  • Zolotoi petushok

Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.

Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.

  • Genoveva

Smetana, Bedrich, 1824-1884.

  • The Bartered Bride

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.

  • Fliegende Holländer
  • Lohengrin
  • Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Parsifal.
  • Ring des Nibelungen. Rheingold
  • Ring des Nibelungen. Walküre
  • Ring des Nibelungen. Siegfried
  • Ring des Nibelungen. Götterdämmerung
  • Tannhäuser
  • Tristan und Isolde

Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826.

  • Freischütz

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