BOOSEY & HAWKES OPERA ANTHOLOGY MEZZO-SOPRANO

Softcover Book

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.

CONTENTS:

John Adams: THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER: I must have been hysterical - DOCTOR ATOMIC: Am I in your light? - Past fierce and tossing skies - EL NINO: La anunciacion - Dominick Argento: THE ASPERN PAPERS: On the stroke of midnight! - CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Bellino's Aria - Madame d'Urfe's Aria - THE DREAM OF VALENTINO: Nazimova's Aria - Was it truly destiny - MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: Estella's Aria - A POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: A Foreign Singer's Aria - Leonard Bernstein: MASS: Thank You - TROUBLE IN TAHITI: There is a garden - What a movie! - Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: Doctor Jessop's midwife - What would Missus Herring say? - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Lysander, Help me Lysander - THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Give him this orchid - Is it all? - She sleeps as a rose upon the night - Aaron Copland: THE TENDER LAND: Ma's Song - Carlisle Floyd: WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Take off that frown - John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: Thus when a good housewife sees a rat...How cruel are the traytors - Henry Purcell, realized by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst: DIDO AND AENEAS: Ah, Belinda, I am prest with torment - When I am laid in earth - Ned Rorem: MISS JULIE: Wind around me like Satan's snake - Richard Strauss: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Sein wir wieder gut - DER ROSENKAVALIER: Wie Du warst! - Igor Stravinsky: MAVRA: The Mother's Aria - OEDIPUS REX: Nonn' erusbeskite, reges - THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: As I was saying...Scorned! Abused! - Sold! Annoyed!