BOOSEY & HAWKES OPERA ANTHOLOGY SOPRANO
Softcover Book
Series: Voice
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Format: Softcover
Composer: Various
Editor: Richard Walters
Ain't It A Pretty Night! • Am I In Your Light? • Aurelia's Aria (My Father Was A Tenor) • Be Kind And Courteous • Chanson Du Rossignol (Song Of The Nightingale) • Come, Now A Roundel • Curley's Wife's Aria (He's Always Left When I've Just Come) • Da Geht Er Hin (The Marschallin's Monologue) • Das War Sehr Gut, Mandryka • Die Wiener Herrn Verstehn Sich • Embroidery Aria • Emily's Aria • Es Gibt Ein Reich • Francesca's Aria • Glitter And Be Gay • Grossmatige Prinzessin • How Beautiful It Is • I Am The Wife Of Mao Tsetung • I Don't Daydream • I See In You A Looking Glass • I'm Full Of Happiness • I'm Like A Skiff On The Ocean Tossed • I've Dreamt In My Life • Injurious Hermia • Kein Andres, Das Mir So Im Herzen Loht (Final Scene) • Lady With A Hand Mirror Aria • Laurie's Song • Let Her Among You Without Fault • Lost In My Labyrinth • Miss Wordsworth's Aria (My Heart Leaps Up With Joy) • Mommy, Are You Here (Dede's Aria) • No Word From Tom...I Go To Him • Oft She Visits This Lov'd Mountain • Rented Rooms • Thanks To These Lonesome Vales • The Dressing-Table Song • The Queen's Dilemma • The Trees On The Mountains • The Widow's Aria • Though Absent From These Ears And Eyes • Virginia's Aria • When Young At The Bar...Ungrateful Macheath!
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 and Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations. The soprano volume also includes ten arias for coloratura.
CONTENTS FOR SOPRANO:
John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Am I in your light? - NIXON IN CHINA: I don't daydream - Dominick Argento: THE BOOR: The Widow's Aria - CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Though absent from these ears and eyes - THE VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE: Virginia's Aria - Leonard Bernstein: A QUIET PLACE: Dede's Aria - Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: I'm full of happiness - Miss Wordsworth's Aria - GLORIANA: The Dressing-Table Song - The Queen's Dilemma - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Injurious Hermia - PETER GRIMES: Let her among you without fault - Embroidery Aria - THE TURN OF THE SCREW: How beautiful it is - Lost in my labyrinth - Aaron Copland: THE TENDER LAND: Laurie's Song - Carlisle Floyd: COLD SASSY TREE: Rented rooms - OF MICE AND MEN: Curly's Wife's Aria - SUSANNAH: Ain't it a pretty night - The trees on the mountains - WUTHERING HEIGHTS: I've dreamt in my life - John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed - When young at the bar...Ungrateful Macheath! - Henry Purcell, realized and edited by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst: DIDO AND AENEAS: Oft she visits this lov'd mountain - Thanks to these lonesome vales - Sergei Rachmaninoff: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Francesca's Aria - Ned Rorem: OUR TOWN: Emily's Aria - Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Das war sehr gut, Mandryka - ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Es gibt ein Reich - CAPRICCIO: Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht (Letzte Szene/Final Scene) - DER ROSENKAVALIER: Da geht er hin (Monolog der Marschallin/Marschallin's Monologue) - Igor Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: No word from Tom...I go to him
CONTENTS FOR COLORATURA SOPRANO:
John Adams: NIXON IN CHINA: I am the wife of Mao Tsetung - Dominick Argento: MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: I see in you a looking glass - POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: Lady with a Hand Mirror Aria - Jack Beeson: CAPTAIN JINKS OF THE HORSE MARINES: Aurelia's Aria - Leonard Bernstein: CANDIDE: Glitter and Be Gay - Benjamin Britten: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Come, now a roundel - Be kind and courteous - Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Die Wiener Herrn verstehn sich - ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Grossmatige Prinzessin - Igor Stravinsky: LE ROSSIGNOL: Chanson du Rossignol
Item #: 048023840
UPC: 888680631055
MPN or ISBN: 9781540030054
Size: 12" x 9"
Pages: 306
Stock #: HL48023840