Russian Operatic Arias for Soprano

Description

This landmark series opens up exciting vistas of challenging and rewarding repertoire for the discerning and adventurous singer. As with the Peters companion volumes of French Operatic Arias, this Russian series presents many of the justly celebrated arias, but also juxtaposes them with other less familiar gems, which undoubtedly deserve wider recognition. Much of the selected repertoire is eminently suitable for audition purposes, so that each volume is a treasure trove for professional singers and students.

• Borodin–Prince Igor (Yaroslavana): Ah! Bitter woe!
• Glinka–A Life for the Tsar (Antonida): Down the river is our village
• Glinka–Ruslan and Lyudmila (Lyudmila): Captive and in dark despair
• Mussorgsky–Sorochintsy Fair (Parasya): Ah, do not weep my darling
• Rachmaninoff–Francesca da Rimini (Francesca): Ah, do not weep, my Paulo
• Rimsky-Korsakov–Sadko (Sea Princess/Vlkhova): Dream walked by the riverside
• Rimsky-Korsakov–The Tsar's Bride (Marfa): In Novgorod we lived not far from Vanya
• Rimsky-Korsakov–The Golden Cockerel (Queen of Shemakha): All-seeing Sun, you rise in glory
• Rimsky-Korsakov–Christmas Eve(Oksana): Why do so many people praise me?
• Serov–Judith (Judith): I remember the days of my youth
• Shostakovich–Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (Katerina): Look at nature
• Tchaikovsky–Yevgeny Onegin (Tatyana): I cannot hide my love (letter scene)
• Tchaikovsky–The Enchantress (Kuma): When your eyes look down from old Nizhny town
• Tchaikovsky–The Enchantress (Kuma): My beloved, where are you?
• Tchaikovsky–Queen of Spades (Liza): Sorrow and fear overwhelm me

Pieces

• Ah! Bitter woe! from Borodin: Prince Igor
• Down the river is our village from Glinka: A Life for the Tsar (Жизнь за царя)
• Captive and in dark despair from Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila (Руслан и Людмила)
• Mussorgsky: Ah, do not weep my darling from The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Сорочинская ярмарка)
• Ah, do not weep, my Paulo from Rachmaninoff: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 25
• Dream walked by the riverside from Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko (Садко)
• In Novgorod we lived not far from Vanya from Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride (Царская невеста)
• All-seeing Sun, you rise in glory from Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (Золотой петушок)
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Why do so many people praise me? from Christmas Eve (Ночь перед Рождеством) (1895)
• Serov: I remember the days of my youth from Judith (Юдифь) (1863)
• Look at nature from Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Op. 29
• I cannot hide my love (letter scene) from Tchaikovsky: Yevgeny Onegin (Eugene Onegin), ČW 5, Op. 24
• When your eyes look down from old Nizhny town from Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress (Чародейка), ČW 9
• My beloved, where are you? from Tchaikovsky: The Enchantress (Чародейка), ČW 9
• Sorrow and fear overwhelm me from Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame), ČW 10, Op. 68