About

About Me

My name is Lee Steiner. I'm a regular chorister at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, father to twin girls, and husband to my wonderful wife Sandy of Heartwood Collective. This site is a passion project that I started in 2013. I don't have much time these days to add more materials, but my goal is still to keep it free-to-use, ad-free, and online for the community to utilize. Donations are always appreciated to help defray the cost of hosting!

On a personal note, I have a serious request for you. If you are using this site, I am humbly asking that you find a way to be kind to someone in your community today. It can be a family member, a friend, a coworker, or a stranger. Hold a door open, be more patient than you normally would, or tell somebody you appreciate them. It could mean the world to them, or even just make their day a little bit brighter.

About the database

Mission

• To create a comprehensive database of operas and arias.
• To catalog arias and create PDFs from Public Domain sources, for the purpose of broadening the opera singer's audition repertoire.
• To create a repository for operatic information, including libretti, scores, translations, and synopses.

Copyright Information

• The Opera Database operates and hosts materials in the United States of America, and is subject to its copyright restrictions.
• All of the scores on this website are, to the best of my knowledge, in the public domain. Any excerpts from scores published after 1923 that are uploaded to this site have been licensed under a Creative Commons license. If you see a score that you do not believe to be in the public domain, please email me at lee@theoperadatabase.com
• Many of the scores you will find on this site are sourced from IMSLP. IMSLP provides these files to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows for remixed and/or transformative works, such as the ones found here. Derivitives must be released under the same Creative Commons license as their parent works. You may use and freely redistribute the files found here with the same stipulation. Please give credit where it is due, and remember to be aware of the copyright laws in your country.