Description
This landmark series collects compelling, useful, singer-friendly excerpts from the best of a distinctly American musical tradition. Plot notes and basic information about each opera are included. Opera composers such as Samuel Barber, William Bolcom, Douglas Moore, Virgil Thomson and Kurt Weill are represented. The operas of Gian Carlo Menotti are particularly present, with 26 arias from nine operas in the series.
Contents:
AMAHL and the NIGHT VISITORS
Gian Carlo Menotti
Oh, woman, you may keep the gold
ANTONY and CLEOPATRA
Samuel Barber
Hark! the land bids me
THE BALLAD of BABY DOE
Douglas Moore
Warm as the autumn light
Turn tail and tun then
Good people of Leadville
CAROUSEL
Richard Rodgers
Soliloquy
THE CONSUL
Gian Carlo Menotti
The Police Agent's Aria
THE EMPEROR JONES
Louis Gruenberg
Oh, Lawd Jesus, heah my prayer
FOUR SAINTS in THREE ACTS
Virgil Thomson
Once in a while
THE GHOSTS of VERSAILLES
John Corigliano
They wish they could kill me
Figaro was supposed to return the necklace
THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK
Robert Kurka
The Doctor's Aria
Dear Madame
THE GREAT GATSY
John Harbison
I remember long ago
A HAND of BRIDGE
Samuel Barber
And this will be my epitaph
JOHN BROWN
Kirke Mechem
The Songs of the Slave
LITTLE WOMEN
Mark Adamo
There was a knight
Kennst du das Land (Do you know the land)
LOST in the STARS
Kurt Weill
Thousands of Miles
O Tixo, Tixo, help me!
McTEAGUE
William Bolcom
Jehosophat!
THE MIGHTY CASEY
William Schuman
In 1839
The Catcher's Song
The Manager's Song
The Umpire's Song
THE MOTHER of US ALL
Virgil Thomson
What what is it
Angel More
THE OLD MAID and the THIEF
Gian Carlo Menotti
When the air sings of summer (Bob's Aria)
REGINA
Marc Blitzstein
Horace's Aria
Greedy Girl
THE SAINT of BLEECKER STREET
Gian Carlo Menotti
Ah, poor Michele
SHOW BOAT
Jerome Kern
Ol' Man River
STREET SCENE
Kurt Weill
Let things be like they always was
SWEENEY TOOD
Stephen Sondheim
Epiphany
TARTUFFE
Kirke Mechem
Every day at church
TEA
Tan Dun
Venus of the East
THE TEMPEST
Lee Hoiby
Our revels now are ended
VANESSA
Samuel Barber
You rascal, you! I never knew you had a soul
For ev'ry love there is a last farewell
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Bernard Herrmann
Man that is born of a woman
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