Instrumentation: Medium voice—Pf Format: Sheet Music Details: Complete with translations and guidance on pronunciation. 'As every singer and lover of French opera knows, editions of even the best-known French operatic arias are difficult – and sometimes expensive – to obtain. Roger Nichols' scrupulously balanced selection of 19th-century French arias provides the perfect starting point for widerexploration. Nichols, who has championed French music in his writings, talks and radiobroadcasts over three decades with eloquence and scholarship, is the ideal guide to this repertoire which, even today, is often neglected, misunderstood or inadequately performed. Contents: Berlioz: Autrefois un roi (La damnation de Faust); Berlioz: D’amour l’ardente flame (La damnation de Faust); Berlioz: Je vais mourir (Les Troyens); Berlioz: Malheureux roi! (Les Troyens); Bizet: En vain pour éviter (Carmen);Bizet Habanera (Carmen); Biz et: Habanera (Carmen); Bizet: Séguedille (Carmen); Chabrier: Ô petite étoile (L’étoile); Chabrier: Hélas! À l’esclavage (Le roi malgré lui); Donizetti: Ô mon Fernand(La favorite); Gounod: Faites-lui mes aveux (Faust); Gounod: Toute femme tient (Le médecinmalgré lui); Gounod: Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle (Roméo et Juliette); Massenet: Neme refuse pas! (Hérodiade); Massenet: Va! Laisse couler mes larmes! (Werther); Massenet: Werther! Werther! Werther! (Werther); Meyerbeer: Ah! mon fils, sois béni! ( Le prophète); Saint-Saëns: Amour! viens aider ma faiblesse!(Samson et Dalila); Saint-Saëns: Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Samson et Dalila); Thomas: Connais-tu le pays (Mignon); Verdi: Ô don fatal (Don Carlos)
SKU: BA.BA08167
ISBN 9790006563685. 29.7 x 21 cm inches. Text Language: French. Preface: Dratwicki, Benoit.
The edition contains French arias for soprano or mezzo-soprano from operas composed by opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck for the Paris Opera.Each edition includes an informative text section containing a Foreword (Fr/Eng), a brief account of the dramatic situation as well as a literal English translation of every aria.
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