G. Schirmer American Aria Anthology

Description

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.

Contents:

ANTONY and CLEOPATRA
Samuel Barber

Give me some music

THE BALLAD of BABY DOE
Douglas Moore

Willow Song
Dearest Mama
The Silver Aria
Always through the changing

THE CONSUL
Gian Carlo Menotti

The Foreign Woman's Aria
To this we've come

FLORENCIA en el AMAZONAS
Daniel Catán

Escúchame

GALLANTRY
Douglas Moore

Now, Doctor Gregg, you have gone too far (Lola's Aria)

THE GHOSTS of VERSAILLES
John Corigliano

They are always with me

THE GREAT GATSBY
John Harbison

Where is the old warm world?

A HAND of BRIDGE
Samuel Barber

Who is there to love me?

THE HERO
Gian Carlo Menotti

My sleeping beauty

JOHN BROWN
Kirke Mechem

Dear Husband: Come this fall

THE LABYRINH
Gian Carlo Menotti

The Bride's Song

LITTLE WOMEN
Mark Adamo

Have peace, Jo
Joy beyond measure, Mother!

THE MEDIUM
Gian Carlo Menotti

The Black Swan
Monica's Waltz

THE MIGHTY CASEY
William Schuman

Kiss Me Not Goodbye
A Prayer

THE OLD MAID and the THIEF
Gian Carlo Menotti

Steal me, sweet thief

REGINA
Marc Blitzstein

Music, music, music
What will it be for me?
Birdie's Aria

THE SAINT of BLEECKER STREET
Gian Carlo Menotti

Oh, Sweet Jesus
Be good to her

SIMÓN BOLÍVAR
Thea Musgrave

Al norte (To the North!)

STREET SCENE
Kurt Weill

Somehow I never could believe
What good would the moon be

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
André Previn

I want magic!
Sea Air

SWEENEY TOOD
Stephen Sondheim

Green finch and linnet bird

TARTUFFE
Kirke Mechem

Fair Robin I love
Father, I beg you

TEA
Tan Dun

Loved One, Beloved

THE TELEPHONE
Gian Carlo Menotti

Hello! Oh, Margaret, it's you

VANESSA
Samuel Barber

Do not utter a word
Why must the greatest sorrows come

A VIEW FROM the BRIDGE
William Bolcom

But you do not know this man

WINTER'S TALE
John Harbison

Now, my fairest friend

WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Bernard Herrimann

I have been wandering through the green woods
I have dreamt
Open the window