Instrumentation: mezzo-soprano et piano Langue : anglais - francaise - 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 œuvres, ainsi, le cas échéant, que des traductions (en anglais).
J. Adams: I must have been hysterical (The Death of Kinghoffer) J. Adams: Am I in your light? (Doctor Atomic) J. Adams: Past fierce and tossing skies (Doctor Atomic) J. Adams: La anunciación (El Niño) D. Argento: On the stroke of midnight! (The Aspern Papers) D. Argento: Bellino's Aria (Casanova's Homecoming) D. Argento: Madame d'Urfe's Aria (Casanova's Homecoming) D. Argento: Was it truly destiny (The Dream of Valentino) D. Argento: Nazimova's Aria (The Dream of Valentino) D. Argento: Estella's Aria (Miss Havisham's Fire) D. Argento: A Foreign Singer's Aria (Postcard from Morocco) L. Bernstein: Thank You (Mass) L. Bernstein: There is a garden (Trouble in Tahiti) L. Bernstein: What a movie! (Trouble in Tahiti) B. Britten: Doctor Jessop's midwife (Albert Herring) B. Britten: What would Missus Herring say? (Albert Herring) B. Britten: Lysander, Help me Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream) B. Britten: She sleeps as a rose upon the night (The Rape of Lucretia) B. Britten: Give him this orchid (The Rape of Lucretia) B. Britten: Is it all? (The Rape of Lucretia) A. Copland: Ma's Song (The Tender Land) C. Floyd: Take off that frown (Wuthering Heights) J. Gay (realised by B. Britten): Thus when a good housewife sees a rat... How cruel are the traytors (The Beggar's Opera) H. Purcell (realised by B. Britten and I. Holst): Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment (Dido and Aeneas) H. Purcell (realised by B. Britten and I. Holst): When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) N. Rorem: Wind around me like Satan's snake (Miss Julie) R. Strauss: Sein wir wieder gut (Ariadne auf Naxos) R. Strauss: Wie Du warst! (Der Rosenkavalier) I. Stravinsky: The Mother's Aria (Mavra) I. Stravinsky: Nonn' erubeskite, reges (Oedipus Rex) I. Stravinsky: As I was saying... Scorned! Abused! (The Rake's Progress) I. Stravinsky: Sold! Annoyed! (The Rake's Progress)
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