Vanessa is an American opera in three acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956 1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15 1958.This paperback Vocal Score of the revised edition is arranged for Soprano (Vanessa) Mezzo-Soprano (Erika) Contralto (The Old Baroness) Tenor (Anatol) Baritone (The Old Doctor) and Bass (Nicholas; The Footman) Voices. Highlights from the score include the Soprano scena and aria He has come he has come!...Do Not Utter a Word the Mezzo aria Must the Winter Come So Soon? and thelast act quintet To Leave to Break.Samuel Barber was an American composer of orchestral opera choral and Piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.

Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride dates from the happiest most musically fulfilling period in the composer's life and draws inspiration from Czech folk music. The action takes place to the backdrop of a visiting circus. Marenka and Jenik’s love for each other seems doomed as Marenka's father has brokered her in marriage to Vasek. Marenka meets Vasek who doesn't realize who she is and dissuades him from the marriage; meanwhile the marriage broker Kecal persuades Jenik to accept marriage to a wealthy girl; he agrees on condition that Marenka marry the son of Tobias Micha. Vasek forsakes the arranged marriage in pursuit of a circus dancer; Marenka remains scornful ofJenik's seeming betrayal. Jenik's plan becomes clear in the final scene when he is revealed to be Micha's long-lost elder son. All of the mismatched couples are sorted out and a family restored in a joyous finale.This is the Schirmer Edition of the Vocal Score with English text by Marian Farquhar.

Gaetono Donizetti's 'The Elixir Of Love' (L'Elisir D'Amore) remains an important work in the repertory of major opera houses of the twenty-first century. It is a good-natured story in which the peasant Nemorino attempts to winthe heart of his love Adina through the ingestion of a farcical magic elixir (which is in fact merely Bordeaux!). Nemorino's aria 'Una furtiva lagrima ' is the most famous excerpt from the opera.

The Black Swan is an aria from the opera The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti. The work is arguably Menotti's most famous serious opera and it opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway in 1947.

Soprano and Piano. In this extremely emotional aria from Corigliano's popular opera the ghost of Marie Antoinette relives the unbearable memory that forever haunts her: the final moments of agony and torture before herexecution at the guillotine.

Gluck's 'Orfeo et Euridice' was one of three operas composed by Gluck in an attempt to reform the Italian opera seria. The libretto is noble and grand and this must have inspired Gluck for his approach to the score is also monumental as well as orchestral in nature. The opera opens after the death of Euridice to a funereal choral tableau which is pierced by the cries of the anguished Orfeo. Huge dramatic choruses of shades and furies contrast starkly with the solo recitatives and arias of Orfeo as he searches for Euridice. The third act is particularly beautiful as Gluck and Calzabigi turn the shade of Euridice into a complex lover and wife unwilling tofollow her husband blindly out of Hades even though she has been called back to life. Her arguments and pleadings her passion and confusion create the torment in Orfeo that results in her being sent back to hell. This is the Schirmer edition of the Vocal Score with English words by Walter Ducloux taking precedance over the French original.

Confiance dans le monde entier, les faisant autorité, G. Schirmer éditions classiques de la scène oeuvres de Gilbert and Sullivan ont été retapé! Ces nouvelles partitions vocales sont dotées de la musique complète et tout dialogue, couvertures de couleurs magnifiques, des résumés de l'intrigue, des articles sur le fameux partenariat, l'histoire de chaque opérette, filmographies et discographies. La reliure cousue assure une durée de vie d'utilisation.Le plus grand succès de la carrière de Gilbert and Sullivan, ce conte plein d'esprit de la loi emmêlés et l'amour est un commentaire à peine voilée sur l'Angleterre victorienne. / Chant/Vocal/Choeur

'La Forza del Destino' is a product of the rich middle period of Verdi’s long creative life and marks an important development in his style. The entire work is pervaded by a dark brooding feeling. Verdi and librettist Francesco Maria Piave have created a tangled tale in which the characters come together through coincidence. Melitone and Preziosilla provide asides and comic elements as the three main characters Donna Leonora Don Carlo and Don Alvaro play out their tragic parts. This is the Schirmer Edition of the Vocal Score in the original Italian with an English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

The libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's 'Rigoletto' was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave from Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse which was so controversial it had been banned in Paris after one performance. Le roi here isthe Duke a renowned womaniser who seduces ladies as their husbands are taunted by his hunchback jester Rigoletto. An elderly nobleman Monterone curses them both for seducing his daughter and Ceprano whose wife has been withthe Duke plots with the courtiers to punish him.Rigoletto is suspected of keeping a mistress so while Rigoletto is out the Duke slips into his house and finding Rigolettoâ??s daughter Gilda he proffers his love to herand she is smitten. After he leaves the courtiers break in and carry off Gilda to the Dukeâ??s bedchamber. Soon Rigoletto enters and realises the mistake just in time as the dishevelled Gilda runs in. As Monterone is led to thedungeon Rigoletto vows to avenge them both. Rigoletto pays the assassin Sparafucile to murder the Duke as his sister Maddalena flirts with him. However Maddalena persuades her brother to kill not the Duke but the nextvisitor to the inn instead so overhearing and resolving to sacrifice herself for the Duke Gilda enters the inn and is stabbed. Rigoletto finds Gilda dying and begging forgiveness: Monterone's curse is fulfilled.This isthe Schirmer edition of the Libretto in the original Italian with an English version by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

La plupart des enseignants de la voix et des chanteurs préfèrent toujours la pianistique, merveilleusement gratifiante arrangements de ce matériau italien début faite par Alessandro Parisotti dans les années 1880. Cette nouvelle édition, nouvellement fait des recherches et gravé, comprend l'original Schirmer 24 'plus quatre chansons supplémentaires : Sento nel core (a. Scarlatti), O leggiadri occhi belli (anonyme), Intorno all'idol mio (Cesti), Delizie contente, che l'Alma beate (Cavalli). Avec IPA, mot pour mot traductions et des informations historiques sur chaque chanson et compositeur. Le CD comprend des accompagnements piano et enregistré des leçons de prononciation / Chant Et Piano / Partition + Cd

Celebrated arias selected from oratorios by old and modern composers. Edited by Max Spicker.

Celebrated arias selected from oratorios by old and modern composers. Edited by Max Spicker.

Celebrated arias selected from operas by a range of composers in five volumes. Includes selections from La Boheme Faust and The Marriage Of Figaro. Compiled by Kurt Adler.

Ave Maria (Daniel Pinkham) and Benedictus (Dale Warland)-Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) produced works in virtually every genre primarily religious in nature. His Ave Maria is a short unaccompanied work for women's voices that displays his interest in plainchantand medievally-influenced modal writing. Dale Warland's Benedictus complements the Pinkham nicely for an excellent showcase for women's chorus in high school and up.