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 & Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations. The soprano volume also includes ten arias for coloratura.

J. Adams: Am I In Your Light? (Doctor Atomic)
J. Adams: I Don't Daydream (Nixon In China)
J. Adams: I Am The Wife Of Mao Tsetung (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)
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 (My Father Was A Tenor)
L. Bernstein: Mommy, Are You Here (Dede's Aria)
L. Bernstein: Glitter And Be Gay (Candide)
B. Britten: I'm Full Of Happiness (Albert Herring)
B. Britten: Miss Wordsworth's Aria (My Heart Leaps Up With Joy) (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)
B. Britten: Come, Now A Roundel (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
B. Britten: Be Kind And Courteous (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
A. Copland: Laurie's Song (The Tender Land)
C. Floyd: Rented Rooms (Cold Sassy Tree)
C. Floyd: Curley's Wife's Aria (He's Always Left When I've Just Come) (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 (realised by B. Britten): When Young At The Bar...Ungrateful Macheath! (The Beggar's Opera)
H. Purcell (realized by B. Britten and I. Holst):Oft She Visits This Lov'd Mountain (Dido and Aeneas)
H. Purcell (realized 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)
R. Strauss: Die Wiener Herrn Verstehn Sich (Arabella)
R. Strauss: Großmätige Prinzessin (Ariadne auf Naxos)
I. Stravinsky: No Word From Tom...I Go To Him (The Rake's Progress)
I. Stravinsky: Chanson Du Rossignol (Song Of The Nightingale) (Le Rossignol)

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