French Operatic Arias for Baritone

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 wider exploration. Nichols, who has championed French Music in his writings, talks, and radio broadcasts 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

• Un puce gentile from Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, H 111, Op. 24
• Devant la maison from Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, H 111, Op. 24
• Votretoast, je peux vous le render from Bizet: Carmen
• Elle sortait de sa demeure from Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth
• Ô Nadir from Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
• Le Polonais est triste et grave from Chabrier: Le roi malgré lui
• Delibes: Il est jeune from Jean de Nivelle
• Avant de quitter ces lieux from Gounod: Faust
• Qu’ils sont doux from Gounod: Le médecin malgré lui
• Gounod: Ô Xaïma from Le tribut de Zamora
• Si les filles d'Arles from Gounod: Mireille
• Mab, lareine des mensonges from Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
• Vision fugitive from Massenet: Hérodiade
• Promesse de mon avenir from Massenet: Le roi de Lahore
• Épouse quelque brave fille from Massenet: Manon
• Fille des rois from Meyerbeer: L'Africaine
• Tourne,tourne, miroir from Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
• Sois immobile immobile from Rossini: Guillaume Tell (William Tell)
• Qui donc commande from Saint-Saëns: Henry VIII
• Comme une pale fleur from A. Thomas: Hamlet
• C’est mon jour supreme from Verdi: Don Carlos
• Au sein de lapuissance from Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes