Instrumentation: Sop Pf Editor: Fanning Format: Sheet Music Details: This landmark series opens up exciting vistas of challenging and rewarding repertoire for the discerning and adventurous singer. As with the Peters companion volumes of French Operatic Arias, this Russian series presents many of the justly celebrated arias, but also juxtaposes them with other less familiar gems, which undoutedly deserve wider recognition. Much of the selected repertoire is eminently suitable for audition purposes,so that each volume is a treasure trove for professional singers and students. Sheet Music and CD Play-along Pack available see Q7580 Contents: Borodin Prince Igor (Yaroslavana): Ah! Bitter woe! Glinka A Life for the Tsar (Antonida): Down the river is our village Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmila (Lyudmila): Captive and in dark despair Mussorgsky Sorochintsy Fair (Parasya): Ah, do not weep my darling Rachmaninov Francesca da Rimini (Francesca): Ah, do not weep, my Paulo Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko (Sea Princess/Vlkhova): Dream walked by the riversideRimsky-Korsakov The Tsar's Bride (Marfa): In Novgorod we lived not far from Vanya Rimsky-Korsakov The Golden Cockerel (Queenof Shemakha): All-seeing Sun, you rise inglory Rimsky-Korsakov Christmas Eve(Oksana): Why do so many people praise me Serov Judith (Judith): I remember the days of my youth Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (Katerina): Look at nature Tchaikovsky Yevgeny Onegin (Tatyana): I cannot hide my love (letter scene) Tchaikovsky The Enchantress (Kuma): When your eyes look down from old Nizhny town Tchaikovsky The Enchantress (Kuma): Mybeloved, where are you Tchaikovsky Queenof Spades (Liza): Sorrow and fear overwhelm me