Publisher's Synopsis
(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). 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. CONTENTS: John Adams: THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER: I must have been hysterical * DOCTOR ATOMIC: Am I in your light? * Past fierce and tossing skies * EL NINO: La anunciacion * Dominick Argento: THE ASPERN PAPERS: On the stroke of midnight! * CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Bellino's Aria * Madame d'Urfe's Aria * THE DREAM OF VALENTINO: Nazimova's Aria * Was it truly destiny * MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: Estella's Aria * A POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: A Foreign Singer's Aria * Leonard Bernstein: MASS: Thank You * TROUBLE IN TAHITI: There is a garden * What a movie! * Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: Doctor Jessop's midwife * What would Missus Herring say? * A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Lysander, Help me Lysander * THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Give him this orchid * Is it all? * She sleeps as a rose upon the night * Aaron Copland: THE TENDER LAND: Ma's Song * Carlisle Floyd: WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Take off that frown * John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: Thus when a good housewife sees a rat...How cruel are the traytors * Henry Purcell, realized by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst: DIDO AND AENEAS: Ah, Belinda, I am prest with torment * When I am laid in earth * Ned Rorem: MISS JULIE: Wind around me like Satan's snake * Richard Strauss: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Sein wir wieder gut * DER ROSENKAVALIER: Wie Du warst! * Igor Stravinsky: MAVRA: The Mother's Aria * OEDIPUS REX: Nonn' erusbeskite, reges * THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: As I was saying...Scorned! Abused! * Sold! Annoyed!
