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.
- L'elisir d'amore
- La Favorite
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- Lucrezia Borgia
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
- Alceste
- Iphigénie en Aulide
- Iphigenie en Tauride
- Orfeo ed Euridice
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.
- Cosi fan Tutte
- Don Giovanni
- Entführung aus dem Serail
- Idomeneo
- Le nozze di Figaro
- Zauberflöte
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881.
- Boris Gudonov
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880.
- Les Contes d'Hoffman
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
- La Bohème
- La Fanciulla del West
- Madama Butterfly
- Tosca
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
- Dido and Aeneas
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908.
- Zolotoi petushok
Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868.
- Barbiere di Siviglia
- La Cenerentola
- Semiramide
- Il Signor Bruschino
Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856.
- Genoveva
Smetana, Bedrich, 1824-1884.
- The Bartered Bride
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
- Aida
- Alzira
- Un Ballo in Maschera
- Don Carlo
- Ernani
- Falstaff
- Un Giorno di Regno
- Macbeth
- Otello
- Rigoletto
- Simon Boccanegra
- Traviata
- Trovatore
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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