American Arias - Soprano

Cette nouvelle série importante fête des plus grands trésors dans l'opéra américain, avec arias, les favoris et les gemmes moins connues, de progrès de râteaux de Stravinsky, John Adam, Nixon en Chine, Trouble de Bernstein in Tahiti et autres grands opéras par Dominic Arg / Mezzo-Soprano Et Piano / Edition Avec Cd

This landmark series collects compelling, useful, singer-friendly arias from a distinctly American opera tradition. Each volume includes information about every opera and an aria plot note. A majority of the music in the four volumes has never before been available outside of the opera vocal scores, and some arias in the series have never been in print at all before now. Most arias are appropriate for college-level singers. Composers such as Samuel Barber, William Bolcom, Douglas Moore, Virgil Thomson and Gian Carlo Menotti are well represented. Additionally, arias are included from important works such as Regina, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Ghosts of Versailles, The Great Gatsby, Little Women and many others. Stephen Sondheim graciously agreed to adapt new aria editions of two pieces from Sweeney Todd for the series: ?The Contest? in the Tenor volume and ?Epiphany? in the Baritone/Bass edition./ Recueil / Soprano et Piano

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. Waiting is Myrtle's aria.

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