Operacast.com carries complete audiocasts of opera programming streamed on the web. For those interested in following opera videocasts on-line, please visit Opera Platform, World Concert Hall and Opera America's streaming guide.

Welcome to Operacast.com - the place to find information about operatic broadcasts on the Internet.

We hope your visit here will be a pleasant one and that you will enjoy this service and find it useful. We look forward to riding the wave of streaming opera on the internet with you in the coming years and decades, and we thank you for your support.

The List of Opera Stations is a comprehensive list of all stations of which we are currently aware that broadcast high-quality audio on the Net and who also broadcast regularly scheduled opera programs. This page has links to each station's home page, to all of that broadcaster's high-quality audio streaming links and to any additional technical help pages which that station may provide.

The Opera Table - our generic schedule page - lists the station, program name, and times (in both Greenwich Mean Time and Eastern Daylight Time), for each regularly scheduled high- quality audio operatic broadcast of which we are aware currently available on the Net. In addition, this page has links to each station's highest quality audio stream and to its relevant scheduling info page.

We have redesigned our schedule pages so that they will load in your browser more rapidly. We now feature seven pages for the Current Week - This Saturday , This Sunday , This Monday , This Tuesday, This Wednesday, This Thursday and This Friday - and three for Next Week - Next Saturday , Next Sunday and Next Week - Monday to Friday . All programs will still be listed with their Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) start times and equivalent times in Eastern Standard (or Daylight) Time. So you won't have to jump back and forth between our List of Opera Stations and the schedule pages, we list all audio stream links for each station on the schedule pages.

Two pages on this site briefly discuss some technical aspects of today's live audio streaming. One page is simple, straightforward, and basic, an introduction to Internet Radio For Simpletons . The second is intended for the more technically inclined, Internet Radio for Techies . The latter page looks at some of the more quirky and esoteric aspects of broadcast audio streaming. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or comprehensive study of the technology but merely a personal semi-autobiographical review of aspects of the invention which have struck your editor as being of some interest.

To keep you abreast of the current state of the streams we list, we have started a blog - OperaBlog - where we can let you know when one of the streams is down or experiencing difficulties and when it is working properly again. We also use OperaBlog for the occasional tribute when an important singer has a milestone birthday or passes away and for other commentary about the opera world.