Boosey & Hawkes Opera Anthology Baritone/Bass

This unique publication includes arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers. There are extensive plot notes and translations. The baritone/bass volume also includes nine arias for bass or bass-baritone.

John Adams
DOCTOR ATOMIC: Batter my heart
A FLOWERING TREE: Storyteller's Aria
NIXON IN CHINA: News has a kind of mystery • Mister Premier

Dominick Argento
THE ASPERN PAPERS: What a yielding nature she has
CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: You have already heard one sermon tonight
MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: If in the years to come
A WATER BIRD TALK: The Lecturer (Theme)

Leonard Bernstein
MASS: A Simple Song

Benjamin Britten
ALBERT HERRING: The Vicar's Aria (Virtue, says Holy Writ) • Tickling a trout • Churchyard's agog with a crowd of folk
BILLY BUDD: Billy Budd, king of the birds! • Billy's Farewell (Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray!)
GLORIANA: Cecil's Report Cecil's Song of Government
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM O Helen, goddess
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Lucretia! I'm sick of that name! Tarquinius's Aria (Within this frail crucible of light)

Carlisle Floyd
OF MICE AND MEN: George's Aria (You bet it's gonna be diff'rent)
WILLIE STARK: We all come out of the earth

John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: Thus Gamesters united in friendship

Sergei Rachmaninoff:
ALEKO: Aleko's Cavatina
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Lanceotto's Aria

Ned Rorem
OUR TOWN: When I got married

Richard Strauss
RABELLA: Nimmst einen Fiaker • Sie gibt mir keinen Blick
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen

Igor Stravinsky
THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: Come, master • I burn! I freeze!

CONTENTS FOR BASS-BARITONE AND BASS:

John Adams
DOCTOR ATOMIC: Teller's Aria

Dominick Argento
THE SHOEMAKERS' HOLIDAY: Simon's Aria

Leonard Bernstein
TROUBLE IN TAHITI: There's a Law

Benjamin Britten
BILLY BUDD: Claggart's Aria
GLORIANA: Raleigh's Song
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Bottom's Dream

Carlisle Floyd
COLD SASSY TREE: I've known I loved you
SUSANNAH: Hear me, O Lord • I'm a lonely man, Susannah