Opera Anthology

Véritable référence parmi les recueils dairs lyriques, voici des airs et des extraits de rôles tirés des opéras de John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss et beaucoup dautres édités par Boosey & Hawkes. Ce volume propose des indications détaillées sur le déroulement des uvres, ainsi, le cas échéant, que des traductions (en anglais). Lédition pour baryton/ voix basse contient également neuf airs pour voix basse ou basse-baryton.
Contenu:
Arias and Excerpts from Baritone Roles
J. Adams: Batter my heart (Doctor Atomic)
J. Adams: Storyteller's Aria (A Flowering Tree)
J. Adams: News has a kind of mystery (Nixon in China)
J. Adams: Mister Premier  (Nixon in China)
D. Argento: What a yielding nature she has (The Aspern Papers)
D. Argento:  You have already heard one sermon tonight (Casanovas Homecoming)
D. Argento: If in the years to come (Miss Havishams Fire)
D. Argento: The Lecturer (Theme) (A Water Bird Talk)
L. Bernstein:  A Simple Song (Mass)
B. Britten: The Vicar's Aria (Virtue, says Holy Writ) (Albert Herring)
B. Britten: Tickling a trout (Albert Herring)
B. Britten: Churchyard's agog with a crowd of folk (Albert Herring)
B. Britten: Billy Budd, king of the birds! (Billy Budd)
B. Britten: Billy's Farewell (Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray!) (Billy Budd)
B. Britten: Cecil's Report Cecil's Song of Government (Gloriana)
B. Britten: O Helen, goddess (A Midsummernights Dream)
B. Britten: Lucretia! I'm sick of that name! Tarquinius's Aria (Within this frail crucible of light) (The Rape of Lucretia)
C. Floyd: George's Aria (You bet it's gonna be diff'rent) (Of Mice and Men)
C. Floyd: We all come out of the earth (Willie Stark)
J. Gay (realized by B. Britten): Thus Gamesters united in friendship (The Beggars Opera)
S. Rachmaninoff: Aleko's Cavatina (Aleko)
S. Rachmaninoff: Lanceotto's Aria (Francesca da Rimini)
N. Rorem: When I got married (Our Town)
R. Strauss: Nimmst einen Fiaker (Arabella)
R. Strauss: Sie gibt mir keinen Blick (Arabella)
R. Strauss: Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen (Adiadne auf Naxos)
I.Stravinsky: Come, master (The Rakes Progress)
I. Stravinsky: I burn! I freeze! (The Rakes Progress)

Arias from Bass-Baritone and Bass Roles
J. Adams: Teller's Aria (Doctor Atomic)
D. Argento: Simon's Aria (The Shoemakers Holiday
L. Bernstein:  There's a Law (Trouble in Tahiti)
B. Britten: Claggart's Aria (Billy Budd)
B. Britten: Raleigh's Song (Gloriana)
B. Britten: Bottom's Dream (A Midsummernights Dream)
C. Floyd: I've known I loved you (Cold Sassy Tree) -  C. Floyd: Hear me, O Lord (Susannah)
C. Floy: I'm a lonely man, Susannah (Susannah)