Description
- Composers: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Jack Beeson (1921-2010), Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Carlisle Floyd (1926-2021), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Dominick Argento (1927-2019), John Adams (1947-), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Ned Rorem (1923-2022)
- Editor: Richard Walters
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Soprano
- Originally for: Opera
- Binding:
- Work Languages: English, French, German, Russian (Cyrillic)
- ISMN: 9790051934621
- Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches
- Pages: 306
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. The soprano volume also includes ten arias for coloratura.
Works:
- Am I in your light? from J. Adams: Doctor Atomic
- I am the wife of Mao Tsetung from J. Adams: Nixon in China
- I don’t daydream from J. Adams: Nixon in China
- The Widow’s Aria from Argento: The Boor
- Though absent from these ears and eyes from Argento: Casanova’s Homecoming
- Virginia’s Aria from Argento: The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe
- Dede’s Aria from Bernstein: A Quiet Place (1983)
- I’m full of happiness from Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39
- Miss Wordsworth’s Aria from Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39
- The Dressing-Table Song from Britten: Gloriana, Op. 53
- The Queen’s Dilemma from Britten: Gloriana, Op. 53
- Injurious Hermia from Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 64
- Let her among you without fault from Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33
- Embroidery Aria from Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33
- How beautiful it is from Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54
- Lost in my labyrinth from Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54
- Laurie’s Song from Copland: The Tender Land (1954)
- Rented rooms from Floyd: Cold Sassy Tree
- Curly’s Wife’s Aria from Floyd: Of Mice and Men
- Ain’t it a pretty night from Floyd: Susannah (1955)
- The trees on the mountains from Floyd: Susannah (1955)
- I’ve dreamt in my life from Floyd: Wuthering Heights
- I’m like a skiff on the ocean tossed from Britten: Beggar’s Opera, Op. 43
- When young at the bar…Ungrateful Macheath! from Britten: Beggar’s Opera, Op. 43
- Oft she visits this lov’d mountain from Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
- Thanks to these lonesome vales from Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
- Francesca’s Aria from Rachmaninoff: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 25
- Emily’s Aria from Rorem: Our Town (2005)
- Das war sehr gut, Mandryka from Strauss: Arabella, TrV 263, Op. 79
- Es gibt ein Reich from Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, TrV 228, Op. 60
- Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht from Strauss: Capriccio, TrV 279, Op. 85
- Da geht er hin from Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, TrV 227, Op. 59
- No word from Tom…I go to him from Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress (1951)
- I see in you a looking glass from Argento: Miss Havisham’s Fire
- Lady with a Hand Mirror Aria from Argento: Postcard from Morocco
- Beeson: Aurelia’s Aria from Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
- Glitter and Be Gay from Bernstein: Candide (1989)
- Come, now a roundel from Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 64
- Be kind and courteous from Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 64
- Die Wiener Herrn verstehn sich from Strauss: Arabella, TrV 263, Op. 79
- Grossmätige Prinzessin from Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, TrV 228, Op. 60
- Stravinsky: Chanson du Rossignol from The Nightingale (Le Rossignol) (1914)
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