J. Adams: I must have been hysterical (The Death of Kinghoffer)
J. Adams: Am I in your light? (Doctor Atomic)
J. Adams: Past fierce and tossing skies (Doctor Atomic)
J. Adams: La anunciación (El Niño)
D. Argento: On the stroke of midnight! (The Aspern Papers)
D. Argento: Bellino's Aria (Casanova's Homecoming)
D. Argento: Madame d'Urfe's Aria (Casanova's Homecoming)
D. Argento: Was it truly destiny (The Dream of Valentino)
D. Argento: Nazimova's Aria (The Dream of Valentino)
D. Argento: Estella's Aria (Miss Havisham's Fire)
D. Argento: A Foreign Singer's Aria (Postcard from Morocco)
L. Bernstein: Thank You (Mass)
L. Bernstein: There is a garden (Trouble in Tahiti)
L. Bernstein: What a movie! (Trouble in Tahiti)
B. Britten: Doctor Jessop's midwife (Albert Herring)
B. Britten: What would Missus Herring say? (Albert Herring)
B. Britten: Lysander, Help me Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
B. Britten: She sleeps as a rose upon the night (The Rape of Lucretia)
B. Britten: Give him this orchid (The Rape of Lucretia)
B. Britten: Is it all? (The Rape of Lucretia)
A. Copland: Ma's Song (The Tender Land)
C. Floyd: Take off that frown (Wuthering Heights)
J. Gay (realised by B. Britten): Thus when a good housewife sees a rat... How cruel are the traytors (The Beggar's Opera)
H. Purcell (realised by B. Britten and I. Holst): Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment (Dido and Aeneas)
H. Purcell (realised by B. Britten and I. Holst): When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)
N. Rorem: Wind around me like Satan's snake (Miss Julie)
R. Strauss: Sein wir wieder gut (Ariadne auf Naxos)
R. Strauss: Wie Du warst! (Der Rosenkavalier)
I. Stravinsky: The Mother's Aria (Mavra)
I. Stravinsky: Nonn' erubeskite, reges (Oedipus Rex)
I. Stravinsky: As I was saying... Scorned! Abused! (The Rake's Progress)
I. Stravinsky: Sold! Annoyed! (The Rake's Progress)

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.

Autore: AA.VV.

Editore: Boosey & Hawkes

Codice: BHI 93463

Codice int.: 315722