French Operatic Arias for Tenor

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

• Agnès la jouvencelle from Auber: Fra Diavolo
• Ah! je vais l’aimer from Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict, H. 138
• La gloireétait ma seule idole from Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini, H 76, Op. 23
• Inutiles regrets from Berlioz: Les Troyens, H 133
• La fleur que tum’avais jetée from Bizet: Carmen
• À l a voix d’un amant fidèle from Bizet: La jolie fille de Perth
• Je crois entendre encore from Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
• Viens, gentile dame from Boieldieu: La dame blanche
• Fantaisie, aux divins mensonges from Delibes: Lakmé
• Ange si pur from Donizetti: La favorite, A. 58
• Salut! demeure chaste et pure from Gounod: Faust
• Anges du paradis from Gounod: Mireille
• Ah! lève-toi, soleil from Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
• Rachel! quand du Seigneur from Halévy: La Juive
• Vainement, ma bienaimée from Lalo: Le roi d'Ys
• Ah! fuyez, douce image! from Massenet: Manon
• En fermant les yeux from Massenet: Manon
• Ô nature, pleine de grace from Massenet: Werther
• Pourquoi me réveiller? from Massenet: Werther
• Ô paradis sorti de l’onde from Meyerbeer: L'Africaine
• Reyer: Esprits, gardiens from Sigurd
• Asile héréditaire from Rossini: Guillaume Tell (William Tell)
• Elle ne croyait pas from A. Thomas: Mignon
• Je l’ai vue from Verdi: Don Carlos