• www.amazon.com Get a thread going, and a start is "complete Preparation: A Guide to Auditioning for Opera", by Joan Dornemann. Then it gives other titles of interest.

• Getting It All Together; A Handbook for Performing Artists in Classical Music and Ballet, Ann Summer-Dossena, $17.50 + $2.50 pp, from: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., P. O. Box 4167, Metuchen, NJ 08840-1279; pub. 1985. Revised edition soon to be released.

• Kein' angst, Baby: A singer's Guide to German Operatic Auditions in the 1990s, Dorothy Maddison & Gail Sullivan. ($19.95 from Paletson Music, NYC. Rhinegold Publishing Ltd., London, 1991.

• Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts. www.musicalamerica.com This is in most public libraries, and may also be purchased for about $115.00 It is the major resource in the business listing presenters of all sizes here and abroad, with addresses and phone numbers (not annotated) It shows all artist managers, their rosters, and agency reports. There are some feature articles.

• The Performing Artist's Handbook, J. Papolos, $13.95 pp, from: T.I.S. Music Shop, P. O. Box 669, Bloomington, IN 47402.

• Deutsches Bühnen Yahrbuch is the German-speaking countries’ companion to the above reference. It will be in some libraries and is readily purchasable in Europe.