Boosey & Hawkes Opera Anthology - Mezzo-Soprano 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 NIÑO: La anunciación · Dominick Argento: THE ASPERN PAPERS: On the stroke of midnight! · CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Bellino's Aria · Madame d'Urfé'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!