Volta La Terrea Fronte Alle Stelle is a solo aria from the opera Un Ballo In Maschera (A Masked Ball). It is presented here for solo Soprano Voice with Piano accompaniment in standard notation with added chord symbols.Scribe's libretto to Verdi's 'A Masked Ball' concerns the real-life assassination of King Gustave III of Sweden at a masked ball in 1792 but adds a love story to what was probably a political murder. The King Ricardo is in love with Amelia wife of his friend Renato. Renato warns the King to beware a plot to kill him. The King visits Ulrica the mystic and she says he will die by the next friendly hand he shakes. The plotdevelops and ends with an exploration of the concepts of innocence and remorse.

Marie Antoinette's Final Aria - Soprano-She Must Stay is the final soprano aria from Corigliano's 1991 opera 'The Ghosts of Versailles' sung by Marie Antoinette. The aria is extracted from the newly published first edition of the vocalscore (HL 50482739).

for Soprano and Piano Vocal/Piano Score. Par ADOLPHE BRUCE. Water Songs is a group of six songs about water in various forms, from rain to the human brain. The poems range from the lyrical poetry of Katherine Barrett Swett, Emily Dickinson, and James Joyce to a comical verse by Shakespeare, a spiritual meditation by the Persian poet Rumi, and a thought-provoking list of water facts and statistics. Written especially for wonderful soprano Angel Blue after Bruce Adolphe had discovered she had been frequently already performing some of his other works (including Valley Girl in Love from his song cycle A Thousand Years of Love). Angel gave the world premiere on May 15, 2021 with Bryan Wagorn on piano in a concert offered by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. / Date parution : 2022-04-01/ Recueil / Soprano et Piano

Taken from Rusalka the eighth of Dvorak’s nine operas and the one that has remained his most popular. The story was adapted by Jaroslav Kvapil from Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and relocated to Bohemia with a Czech water-spirit or Rusalka in the principal role. Rusalka loves a mortal prince a witch grants her humanity but the romance doesn’t work out and she returns heartbroken to the water where she joins her beloved in death. The Song to the Moon comes from Act I. From her woodland pool Rusalka sings of her longing in the shimmering moonlight Silver moon upon the deep dark sky…tell me tell me oh where does my lovedone bide?

The songs in this collection include the modern art song Legend of Rosemary (verse by Reginald Arkell) a bluesy Stop All The Clocks (W H Auden) the droll dizziness of desire The Bakery (13th Korean courtesan) creepy evocation of mother’s love juxtaposed with evil using three keys simultaneously in Infant Song (Charles Causley) and the poignant My Boy Jack haunting modal Harp Song of the Dane Women and a contemplation of wrongdoing using constantly shifting key and time signatures in Gertrude’s Prayer (all Rudyard Kipling).Contemporary English composer singer and Vocal coach Betty Roe is best known for her church and Choral music revue songs music for schools and solosongs like these. She has a particular affinity for setting poetry imaginatively and sensitively.

Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth on 3rd March 1878 and spent most of his childhood in London. His holidays however were spent with relatives in Swindon and it was there that he developed his abiding love of all things rural.He was educated at St Paul's Hammersmith and was encouraged in his creative writing by James Ashcroft Noble whose daughter he secretly married after her father's death and to the great disapproval of her family. Despitegrowing anxiety over poverty ill health and literary discouragement which exacerbated a natural tendency to depression Thomas worked unstintingly as a reviewer and wrote and published over 30 books between 1897 and 1917.'Adlestrop' was written with four other poems between 7th and 9th June 1915. He enlisted in 1915 at the age of 37 and was called to the Front in 1917. He arrived at Arras on 9th February 1917 and was killed on the 9th April Easter Monday by a shell blast in the opening minutes of the offensive.This work for Soprano and Piano was premiered by Jane Manning and Dominic Saunders at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1989. Text by Edward Thomas. A3 ScoreAvailable: SOS03574

Par CHAMOUARD PHILIPPE. Philippe Chamouard?s music sheds new light on Michelangelo?s three magnificent poems (Dimmi di grazia, Gli occhi, A l?alta tuo) which deal with a universal theme, that of love linked to beauty. / Date parution : 2022-04-26/ Répertoire / Soprano et Piano