Boosey & Hawkes Opera Anthology Mezzo- Soprano

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. For Mezzo-Soprano.

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!