Boosey & Hawkes Opera Anthology - Baritone/Bass

This landmark publication collects arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers published by Boosey and Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations. The baritone/bass volume also includes nine arias for bass or bass-baritone. CONTENTS FOR BARITONE: John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Batter my heart * A FLOWERING TREE: Storyteller's Aria * NIXON IN CHINA: News has a kind of mystery * Mister Premier * Dominick Argento: THE ASPERN PAPERS: What a yielding nature she has * CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: You have already heard one sermon tonight * MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: If in the years to come * A WATER BIRD TALK: The Lecturer (Theme) * Leonard Bernstein: MASS: A Simple Song * Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: The Vicar's Aria (Virtue, says Holy Writ) * Tickling a trout * Churchyard's agog with a crowd of folk * BILLY BUDD: Billy Budd, king of the birds] * Billy's Farewell (Look] Through the port comes the moonshine astray]) * GLORIANA: Cecil's Report Cecil's Song of Government * A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM O Helen, goddess * THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Lucretia] I'm sick of that name] Tarquinius's Aria (Within this frail crucible of light) * Carlisle Floyd: OF MICE AND MEN: George's Aria (You bet it's gonna be diff'rent) * WILLIE STARK: We all come out of the earth * John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: Thus Gamesters united in friendship * Sergei Rachmaninoff: ALEKO: Aleko's Cavatina * FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Lanceotto's Aria * Ned Rorem: OUR TOWN: When I got married * Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Nimmst einen Fiaker * Sie gibt mir keinen Blick * ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen * Igor Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: Come, master * I burn] I freeze] CONTENTS FOR BASS-BARITONE AND BASS: John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Teller's Aria * Dominick Argento: THE SHOEMAKERS' HOLIDAY: Simon's Aria * Leonard Bernstein: TROUBLE IN TAHITI: There's a Law * Benjamin Britten: BILLY BUDD: Claggart's Aria * GLORIANA: Raleigh's Song * A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Bottom's Dream * Carlisle Floyd: COLD SASSY TREE: I've known I loved you * SUSANNAH: Hear me, O Lord * I'm a lonely man, Susannah