Pour Mezzo Soprano Ou Contralto. Par DIVERS AUTEURS / SEMELLAZ. Born in Laval, Françoise Semellaz studied in Le Mans and Paris before embarking on a successful teaching career. Currently a professor at the Lille Conservatoire, she devotes herself to classical singing. As a vocalist herself, this compilation of Decouvrir L'Opera Français is well-informed. Containing airs for Mezzo-Sopranos and Contraltos, the accompaniment is helpfully recorded on the CD included. Airs include those by Boië ldieu, Delibes, Gounod, Massenet, Offenbach, Saint-Saë ns and Thomas. With a detailed preface and wide selection of Airs, Semellaz 's Decouvrir L'OperaFrançais is essential to all aspiring, advanced Mezzo-Sopranos and Contraltos. / Opéra-opérette / Recueil / Mezzo-Soprano ou Contralto et Piano

Lyric Scenes on Fragments by Sappho. Par JOST CHRISTIAN. The Greek poetess Sappho wrote her poems, which have survived in fragmentary form, in exile in Sicily in about 600 BC. Full of natural intensity and liveliness, her verses revolve around the conditions of a human existence that is bittersweet. Her credo is: “the most beautiful thing is that which one loves”. Christian Jost has captured the mood of these words in lyrical scenes for mezzosoprano and piano. The singing voice follows the shape of Sappho’s words in the classical Greek with sensitive phrasing, while the piano creates expressively dramatic structures of sound./ Répertoire / Mezzo-Soprano et Piano

This Book and CD collection of Volume 2 of Les Plaisirs Du Bel Canto features a selection of songs for singers that have been taken from the classic repertoire of the great operas. For Mezzo-SopranoVoice.
For professional singers, students, enthusiasts and music schools, this varied repertoire is a great way to enter into the joyous world of singing. The CD features Pianoaccompaniment as it appears transcribed in the book.
1. Habanera (Carmen) [Bizet, Georges]
2. La Lettre (Véronique) [Messager, André]
3. La Maison Grise (Fortunio) [Messager, André]
4. La Reine De La Nuit (La Flûte Enchantée) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
5. L\'air Des Bijoux (Faust) [Gounod, Charles]
6. Le Roi De Thulé (Faust) [Gounod, Charles]
/ Partitions classique / Vocale - chorale / Voix solo - piano / CHOUDENS

This outstanding series is an encouragement to beginning singers in preparing a vocal solo. Songs have been carefully chosen for each voice type after consulting many official state contest repertoire lists. All the songs for instance are on the Texas list. The series will be useful to any novice singer not just limited to those preparing an actual contest solo. Each volume contains 10 songs: 5 art songs in English an African-American spiritual 2 songs in Italian a song in German and a song in Spanish. There are new editions and engravings of all songs. Biographical information is included on each composer. Interpretive suggestions are given for each song and the prefaceon Learning a Song is especially instructive. Each companion CD includes beautiful performances of all the songs by a professional singer and excellent accompaniments by pianist Laura Ward. Also on the CD are pronunciation guides in Italian German and Spanish. Mezzo-Soprano Book Contents: An die Musik · The Blue-Bell · He Shall Feed His Flock · My Lord What a Mornin' · Now Is the Month of Maying · Nymphs and Shepherds · Ombra mai fù · Porque toco el pandero · Silent Noon · Vergin tutto amor.