French Operatic Arias for Bass

Description

Complete with translations and guidance on pronunciation. 'As every singer and lover of French opera knows, editions of even the best-known French operatic arias are difficult – and sometimes expensive – to obtain. Roger Nichols' scrupulously balanced selection of 19th-century French arias provides the perfect starting point for widerexploration. Nichols, who has championed French music in his writings, talks and radiobroadcasts over three decades with eloquence and scholarship, is the ideal guide to this repertoire which, even today, is often neglected, misunderstood or inadequately performed.

Pieces

• Piff, paff from Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
• Ô jours heureux from Meyerbeer: L'étoile du nord
• Certain rat dans une cuisine from Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, H 111, Op. 24
• Je t'implore from A. Thomas: Hamlet
• Et toi, Palerme from Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes
• Elle ne m'aime pas from Verdi: Don Carlos
• Le veau d'or from Gounod: Faust
• Vous qui faites l'endormie from Gounod: Faust
• Au bruit des lourds marteaux from Gounod: Philémon et Baucis, CG 4
• Gounod: Le grand art de cuisine from La colombe, CG 6
• Gounod: Sous les pieds d'une femme from La colombe, CG 6
• Massé: Tristes amours! from Galathée
• Ce Dieu que votre voix implore from Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah, Op. 47
• Fatal orgueil des Rois from Saint-Saëns: Henry VIII
• Quand la flamme de l'amour from Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth
• Qu'on est digne d'envie from Massenet: Le Cid
• Il a fait noblement from Massenet: Le Cid
• Comment peut-on penser from Massenet: Don Quichotte
• Je suis le chevalier errant from Massenet: Don Quichotte
• Maintenant que le père de Pelléas est sauvé from Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande, CD 93, L 88