Description
- Composers: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Carlisle Floyd (1926-2021), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), John Adams (1947-), Dominick Argento (1927-2019), Ned Rorem (1923-2022)
- Editor: Richard Walters
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Mezzo Soprano
- Originally for: SATB Choir, Orchestra, Opera
- Binding:
- Work Language: English
- ISMN: 9790051934638
- Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches
- Pages: 216
Description
This landmark publication collects arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers published by Boosey & Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations.
Works:
- I must have been hysterical from J. Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer
- Am I in your light? from J. Adams: Doctor Atomic
- Past fierce and tossing skies from J. Adams: Doctor Atomic
- La anunciación from J. Adams: El Niño
- On the stroke of midnight! from Argento: The Aspern Papers
- Bellino’s Aria from Argento: Casanova’s Homecoming
- Madame d’Urfé’s Aria from Argento: Casanova’s Homecoming
- Nazimova’s Aria from Argento: The Dream of Valentino
- Was it truly destiny from Argento: The Dream of Valentino
- Estella’s Aria from Argento: Miss Havisham’s Fire
- A Foreign Singer’s Aria from Argento: Postcard from Morocco
- Thank You from Bernstein: MASS (A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers) (1971)
- There is a garden from Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti (1951)
- What a movie! from Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti (1951)
- Doctor Jessop’s midwife from Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39
- What would Missus Herring say? from Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39
- Lysander, Help me Lysander from Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 64
- Give him this orchid from Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37
- Is it all? from Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37
- She sleeps as a rose upon the night from Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37
- Ma’s Song from Copland: The Tender Land (1954)
- Take off that frown from Floyd: Wuthering Heights
- Thus when a good housewife sees a rat…How cruel from Britten: Beggar’s Opera, Op. 43
- Ah, Belinda, I am prest with torment from Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
- When I am laid in earth from Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
- Wind around me like Satan’s snake from Rorem: Miss Julie
- Sein wir wieder gut from Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, TrV 228, Op. 60
- Wie Du warst! from Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, TrV 227, Op. 59
- The Mother’s Aria from Stravinsky: Mavra (1922)
- Nonn’ erusbeskite, reges from Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (1927)
- Sold! Annoyed! from Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress (1951)
- As I was saying…Scorned! Abused! from Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress (1951)
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