Boosey & Hawkes Opera Anthology – Soprano

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.

Pieces

• 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
• 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
• Aurelia's Aria from Beeson: 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)