Boosey & Hawkes Opera Anthology 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. The soprano volume also includes ten arias for coloratura.

John Adams
DOCTOR ATOMIC: Am I in your light?
NIXON IN CHINA: I don't daydream

Dominick Argento
THE BOOR: The Widow's Aria
CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Though absent from these ears and eyes
THE VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE: Virginia's Aria

Leonard Bernstein
A QUIET PLACE: Dede's Aria

Benjamin Britten
ALBERT HERRING: I'm full of happiness • Miss Wordsworth's Aria
GLORIANA: The Dressing-Table Song • The Queen's Dilemma
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Injurious Hermia
PETER GRIMES: Let her among you without fault • Embroidery Aria
THE TURN OF THE SCREW: How beautiful it is • Lost in my labryrinth

Aaron Copland
THE TENDER LAND: Laurie's Song

Carlisle Floyd
COLD SASSY TREE: Rented rooms
OF MICE AND MEN: Curly's Wife's Aria
SUSANNAH: Ain't it a pretty night • The trees on the mountains
WUTHERING HEIGHTS: I've dreamt in my life

John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed • When young at the bar...Ungrateful Macheath!

Henry Purcell, realized and edited by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst
DIDO AND AENEAS: Oft she visits this lov'd mountain • Thanks to these lonesome vales

Sergei Rachmaninoff
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Francesca's Aria

Ned Rorem
OUR TOWN: Emily's Aria

Richard Strauss
ARABELLA: Das war sehr gut, Mandryka
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Es gibt ein Reich
CAPRICCIO: Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht (Letzte Szene/Final Scene)
DER ROSENKAVALIER: Da geht er hin (Monolog der Marschallin/Marschallin's Monologue)

Igor Stravinsky
THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: No word from Tom...I go to him

CONTENTS FOR COLORATURA SOPRANO:

John Adams
NIXON IN CHINA: I am the wife of Mao Tsetung

Dominick Argento
MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: I see in you a looking glass
POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: Lady with a Hand Mirror Aria

Jack Beeson
CAPTAIN JINKS OF THE HORSE MARINES: Aurelia's Aria

Leonard Bernstein
CANDIDE: Glitter and Be Gay

Benjamin Britten
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Come, now a roundel • Be kind and courteous

Richard Strauss
ARABELLA: Die Wiener Herrn verstehn sich
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Grossmätige Prinzessin

Igor Stravinsky
LE ROSSIGNOL: Chanson du Rossignol