It is, I repeat, simply a Demo, in which you will find data about performances randomly chosen of 73 operas by 5 popular composers as Bizet, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi and Wagner, plus Mr Abraham, who happens to be alphabetically the first opera composer and is necessary here for functionality reasons.
The Demo requires System 7 or more and is perfect on a 256 or more color monitor. In any case you can see it very well also on a grey monitor and use it on a b/n monitor, even if in this last case you loose many frills. (But I think the real thing is data.)
I'ts better to have NewCenturySchlbk Font, wich usually comes with Mac system.
Version 2.0 is completely revised, redesigned and improved in functions and frills.
You have now a Singing Cover (check it out) and 5 Formats:
Records of Performances
Ordered List of Performances
Ordered Opera Titles
Ordered Composers
Ordered Composers with their Operas.
You can use a Short User Manual from inside the Database.
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You will discover who sang what and with whom and directed by whom and when, in which opera Mimi weeps and dies, and in which opera Zerlina shows her pretty face to a certain villain... and so on.
My real database lists (today, jan. 8, 1996) 1193 recorded or broadcasted performances of 489 operas by 171 composers and I update it almost daily.
People who have visited my WWW pages (more than 3000 in less than 8 months) know very well how rich they are. If you don't know them, visit them now.
If you like my Demo Database and want the complete relese, please send me 25 $ (or a corresponding amount in european currencies) in a strong and brown envelope, accompanied by a note with your postal address and the type of platform on which you use Filemaker 2.1 (Mac or Windows).
As soon as I receive your letter I will send you a floppy with my compressed (selfexpanding) complete Database. [In use, it gets to around 2 mega.]
It is a very powerful instrument to study opera performances or at least to decide which performance to buy (in case you do not own already one or ten). When you will have the database, with all its thousands of data, you will be able to complete it with your operas, making it even more powerful and useful.
Check out this Demo and my WWW pages about the completeness and seriousness of my data, and decide.
If you are not interested in my complete database, simply enjoy this file and be my friends.
Let me know. Ciao from Milano, Italy, hometown of La Scala.
