Instrumentation: soprano et piano Langue : anglais - russe - allemand
Véritable référence parmi les recueils d'airs lyriques, voici des airs et des extraits de rôles tirés des opéras de John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss et beaucoup d'autres édités par Boosey & Hawkes. Ce volume propose des indications détaillées sur le déroulement des oeuvres, ainsi, le cas échéant, que des traductions (en anglais). L'édition pour soprano comporte notamment aussi 10 airs pour « coloratura ».
Contents for Soprano: J. Adams: Am I in your Light? (Doctor Atomic) J. Adams: I don't daydream (Nixon In China) D. Argento: The Widow's Aria (The Boor) D. Argento: Though absent from these ears and eyes (Casanova's Homecoming) D. Argento: Virginia's Aria (The Voyage Of Edgar Allan Poe) L. Bernstein: Dede's Aria (A Quite Place) B. Britten: I'm full of happiness (Albert Herring) B. Britten: Miss Wordsworth's Aria (Albert Herring) B. Britten: The Dressing-Table Song (Gloriana) B. Britten: The Queen's Dilemma (Gloriana) B. Britten: Injurious Hermia (A Midsummer Night's Dream) B. Britten: Let her among you without fault (Peter Grimes) B. Britten: Embroidery Aria (Peter Grimes) B. Britten: How beautiful it is (The Turn of the Screw) B. Britten: Lost in my labyrinth (The Turn of the Screw) A. Copland: Laurie's Song (The Tender Land) C. Floyd: Rented rooms (Cold Sassy Tree) C. Floyd: Curley's Wife's Aria (Of Mice And Men) C. Floyd: Ain't it a pretty night! (Susannah) C. Floyd: The trees on the mountains (Susannah) C. Floyd: I've dreamt in my life (Wuthering Heights) J. Gay (realised by B. Britten): I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed (The Beggar's Opera) J. Gay (realized by B. Britten): When young at the bar... Ungrateful Macheath! (The Beggar's Opera) J. Gay (realised by B. Britten): When Young At The Bar...Ungrateful Macheath! (The Beggar's Opera) H. Purcell (realised by B. Britten and I. Holst): Oft she visits this lov'd mountain (Dido and Aeneas) H. Purcell (realised by B. Britten and I. Holst): Thanks to these lonesome vales (Dido and Aeneas) S. Rachmaninoff: Francesca's Aria (Francesca da Rimini) N. Rorem: Emily's Aria (Our Town) R. Strauss: Das war sehr gut, Mandryka (Arabella) R. Strauss: Es gibt ein Reich (Ariadne auf Naxos) R. Strauss: Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht (Final Scene) (Capriccio) R. Strauss: Da geht er hin (The Marschallin's Monologue) (Der Rosenkavalier) I. Stravinsky: No word from Tom...I go to him (The Rake's Progress)
Arias for Coloratura Soprano: J. Adams: I am the wife of Mao Tsetung (Nixon In China) D. Argento: I see in you a looking glass (Miss Havisham's Fire) D. Argento: Lady with a Hand Mirror Aria (Postcard from Morocco) J. Beeson: Aurelia's Aria (Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines) L. Bernstein: Glitter and Be Gay (Candide) B. Britten: Come, now a roundel (A Midsummer Night's Dream) B. Britten: Be kind and courteous (A Midsummer Night's Dream) R. Strauss: Die Wiener Herrn verstehn sich (Arabella) R. Strauss: Großmätige Prinzessin (Ariadne auf Naxos) I. Stravinsky: Chanson du Rossignol (Le Rossignol)
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