Please take a look through some of these frequently asked questions before contacting us.

How do I contribute material to the Database?

Check out the Contributions page.

What's the name of that song/aria from _______ (movie/commercial/etc)?

We don't mean to be rude, but unfortunately, we're not going to be able to help you. We feel that if we answer one of these questions, we have to answer them all. So, in interest of spending more time working on the website itself, we've decided to not answer any of them. These questions often involve a decent amount of research and we just don't have enough time in my day unfortunately. Besides, message boards and Wikipedia can do a much better job that we can of answering these questions!

Can I use information from the Aria Database in a program/supertitles presentation/CD liner notes/research paper/etc?

The general answer to this question is "yes" but we strongly encourage you to attribute where you found the information and who did the actual translating or research. For instance, a sample attribution for a translation of an aria would look like: "Translation by XXXXXX YYYYYY from the Aria Database (http://www.aria-database.com)". The translations and sound files contributed to the Aria Database have not been licensed in any way to us - we use them by permission and unless you see otherwise in the entry for that translation or sound file, they remain the property of their creators so please think twice before using them commercially in any way. For aria information (almost all of which was written by one of us), you may feel free to use anything you want as long as you properly cite your usage just as you would information from a book or an article.

I am a contributor to the Database and my information needs to be updated. How do I correct it?

Just let us know through the Contact page. If you have tried this in the past and we have not actually updated your information, please be assured that we will actually update your information this time and we profusely apologize that it hasn't already been done.

I can't find _________ in the Database. When will you add it?

First of all, make sure that it isn't in the Database by searching with more basic terms or browsing through the Database by opera. If you are sure that it isn't in the Database, send us a note. we'll put in in the queue to be added to the Database, although we can't guarantee that it will happen any time soon. We add information when we can and we all have full-time jobs that take most of our time. Translations especially may not appear for a long time.