A Collection of Essential Contemporary Works
This major new series celebrates the greatest treasures in American opera, with arias, both favourites and lesser-known gems, from Stravinsky’s Rakes Progress, John Adam’s Nixon in China, Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and other great operas by Dominic Argento, Ned Rorem and Carlisle Floyd. Comes with accompaniment CD.
Suitable for professional and college-level singers, ideal for recitals and auditions, and an essential resource for the study of American opera repertoire.
Aaron Copland: Ma's Song from The Tender Land - Dominick Argento: A Foreign Singer in a Waiting Station from Postcard from Morocco - Dominick Argento: Bellino's Aria from Casanova's Homecoming - Dominick Argento: Estella's Aria from Miss Havisham's Fire - Dominick Argento: Nazimova's Aria from The Dream of Valentino - Dominick Argento: Rose's Air from The Shoemakers' Holiday - Dominick Argento: Tina's Aria from The Aspern Papers - Igor Stravinsky: Baba's Aria and Monologue from The Rake's Progress - Jack Beeson: Mother Rainey's Aria from The Sweet Bye and Bye - John Adams: Consuelo's Dream from I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky - John Adams: La anunciación from El Niño - John Adams: Leila's Song: Alone (Again or at Last) from I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky - John Adams: Mrs. Klinghoffer's Aria from The Death of Klinghoffer - Leonard Bernstein: A Simple Song from Mass - Leonard Bernstein: There is a garden from Trouble in Tahiti - Leonard Bernstein: What a movie! from Trouble in Tahiti - Ned Rorem: The Norway Aria from Bertha - Richard Cumming: Shaun, do not go from The Picnic
