Famous Opera Arias For Soprano

Performed by Ivanka Ninova mezzo-soprano Accompaniment: Orchestra of the Sofia National Opera Conductor: Nayden Todorov Here's a collection of eternal classics from the great Gioachino Rossini's pen-including arias from such great operas as Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Italiana in Algeri. Mezzo great Ivanka Ninova performs these complete editions for your reference then she steps aside and you take your place alongside maestro Todorov and the orchestra of the world-famous Sofia National Opera. Brava! Includes an expansive newly engraved vocal score printed on high-quality ivory paper; and a CD G graphics-enabled compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) indigital stereo followed by digital stereo orchestral accompaniments to each piece minus the soloist.

Soprano and Piano-Soprano and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Where is the Old Warm World is Daisy's aria.

Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

13 selected arias from early baroque to classic-A clearly defined theme: strong triumphant but also forsaken and suffering protagonists all of royal blood have their say in a series of arias from the early Baroque up to the early Classical period that cover an enormous range of musical soul searching and character-drawing. It was to be an attractive mixture of the well-known and unknown for a new CD project with II Complesso Barocco - Arias with which the celebrated American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato could show all facets of her mastry. Alan Curtis pioneer of historical performance practice outstanding interpreter and musicologist set out to find unknown treasures for her that alongside the highlights of therepertoire also provide for surprises.Joyce DiDonato and Alan Curtis' Drama Queens became an exciting foray through two centuries of opera history from the dawn of the young genre in the early seventeenth up to the end of the eighteenth century in which famous aria by Monteverdi ('Disprezzata Regina' from L'incoronazione di Poppea in the complete version) Cesti ('Intorno all'idol mio' from Orontea) Handel ('Ma Quando Tornerai' from Alcina 'Piangero La Sortie Mia' from Giulio Cesare 'Brilla nell'alma' from Alessandro) and Hasse 'Morte col fiero aspetto' from Antonio e Cleopatera) are combined with Giacomelli's original 'Sposa son disprezzata' (from Merope parodied by Vivaldi in his pasticco 'Bajazet' and splendid finds by Orlandini (Da Torbida Procella' and 'Col Versar Barbaro Il Sangue' from Berenice) Keiser ('Lasciami Piangere' from Fredegunda 'Geloso Sospetto' from Octavia) and Porta ('Madre Diletta abbracciami' from Ifigenia in Aulide). Hadyn's 'Vedi se t'amo' from Armida in a transposition that is more comfortable for a mezzo-soprano concludes the program.The arias in the present edition were newly edited in some cases for the first time for the CD project. As the first volume of the 'Complesso Barocco Edition' it marks the beginning of a collaboration between Alan Curtis and Boosey & Hawkes within

Ottone HWV 15; Opera in three acts.Version of the first performance 1723.Handel completed his opera ?Ottone? in August 1722 but the first performance did not take place until January 1723 in the Haymarket Theatre London; the composer had waited so long for the famous soprano Francesca Cuzzoni who he had in mind for the role of Teofane.?Ottone? was an immediate success from the beginning not only for its top-class cast but also because of its formal and musical structure. It received numerous revivals until 1733.Stylistically ?Ottone? follows in the Neapolitan operatradition with emotionally charged arias as the principal vehicles of expression whilst the plot is carried forward in the secco recitatives.The dramatic action is interpreted and intensified through the choice of arias and keys.The Vocal score is based on volume II/12 of the ?Halle Handel Edition? (BA 4077) which contains the complete critical musical text of the opera for the first time.- First critical edition based on the Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition.- Additional numbers from later performances included in the appendix.- Foreword (Ger/Eng).- Full score (BA4077) & Vocal score (BA4077-90) available for sale.- Performance material (BA4077-72) available for hire.