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. The soprano volume also includes ten arias for coloratura. CONTENTS FOR SOPRANO: John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Am I in your light? * NIXON IN CHINA: I don't daydream * Dominick Argento: THE BOOR: The Widow's Aria * CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Though absent from these ears and eyes * THE VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE: Virginia's Aria * Leonard Bernstein: A QUIET PLACE: Dede's Aria * Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: I'm full of happiness * Miss Wordsworth's Aria * GLORIANA: The Dressing-Table Song * The Queen's Dilemma * A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Injurious Hermia * PETER GRIMES: Let her among you without fault * Embroidery Aria * THE TURN OF THE SCREW: How beautiful it is * Lost in my labyrinth * Aaron Copland: THE TENDER LAND: Laurie's Song * Carlisle Floyd: COLD SASSY TREE: Rented rooms * OF MICE AND MEN: Curly's Wife's Aria * SUSANNAH: Ain't it a pretty night * The trees on the mountains * WUTHERING HEIGHTS: I've dreamt in my life * John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed * When young at the bar...Ungrateful Macheath! * Henry Purcell, realized and edited by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst: DIDO AND AENEAS: Oft she visits this lov'd mountain * Thanks to these lonesome vales * Sergei Rachmaninoff: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Francesca's Aria * Ned Rorem: OUR TOWN: Emily's Aria * Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Das war sehr gut, Mandryka * ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Es gibt ein Reich * CAPRICCIO: Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht (Letzte Szene/Final Scene) * DER ROSENKAVALIER: Da geht er hin (Monolog der Marschallin/Marschallin's Monologue) * Igor Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: No word from Tom...I go to him CONTENTS FOR COLORATURA SOPRANO: John Adams: NIXON IN CHINA: I am the wife of Mao Tsetung * Dominick Argento: MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: I see in you a looking glass * POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: Lady with a Hand Mirror Aria * Jack Beeson: CAPTAIN JINKS OF THE HORSE MARINES: Aurelia's Aria * Leonard Bernstein: CANDIDE: Glitter and Be Gay * Benjamin Britten: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Come, now a roundel * Be kind and courteous * Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Die Wiener Herrn verstehn sich * ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Grossmatige Prinzessin * Igor Stravinsky: LE ROSSIGNOL: Chanson du Rossignol
