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
A FLOWERING TREE: Her arms have the beauty
NIXON IN CHINA: Platonic men


Dominick Argento
CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Gondolier's Song
THE DREAM OF VALENTINO: Now I know • Valentino's Aria
POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: Once when I was a young man


Leonard Bernstein
CANDIDE: Bon Voyage


• Benjamin Britten
ALBERT HERRING: The Mayor's Aria • Albert the Good! • O go, Go! Go away!
BILLY BUDD: I accept their verdict • Gloriana: First Lute Song • Second Lute Song
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Asleep my Love?
PETER GRIMES: They listen to money • Now the Great Bear and Pleiades • In dreams I've built myself
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Rome is now ruled • Tarquinius does not dare
THE TURN OF THE SCREW: It is a curious story • Miles!

Aaron Copland
THE TENDER LAND: Martin's Song


Carlisle Floyd
COLD SASSY TREE: So there you were • Sometimes th' pain of missin' him
OF MICE AND MEN: Lennie's Aria (Oh, I feel cold inside)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Then marry me, Cathy


John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten
THE BEGGAR's OPERA: O cruel, cruel case!


Sergei Prokofieff:
L'AMOUR DES TROIS ORANGES: Il est drôle, le Prince!


Sergei Rachmaninoff
ALEKO: Young Gypsy's Romance


Ned Rorem
OUR TOWN: The Stage Manager's Aria (We're all coming up here)


Richard Strauss
ARABELLA: Ich hab's geschworen
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Im Gegenteil
CAPRICCIO: Das Sonett (Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht)
DER ROSENKAVALIER: Di rigori armato il seno


Igor Stravinsky
MAVRA: Hussar's Aria
THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: Here I stand • Love, too frequently betrayed • Vary the song • Sellem's Auction Scene • I have waited


Mark-Anthony Turnage
ANNA NICOLE: Valium, prozac