Includes scenarios and notes on the operas in English.
Contents:
A flowering tree. Her arms have the beauty ; Nixon in China. Platonic men / John Adams -- Casanova's Homecoming. Gondolier's song ; The dream of Valentino. Now I know, Valentino's aria ; Postcard from Morocco. Once when I was a young man / Dominick Argento -- Candide. Bon voyage / Leonard Bernstein -- Albert Herring. The mayor's aria, Albert the good!, O go, go! Go away! ; Billy Budd. I accept their verdict ; Gloriana. First and second lute songs ; A midsummer night's dream. Asleep my love? ; Peter Grimes. They listen to money, Now the great bear and Pleiades, In dreams I've built myself ; The rape of Lucretia. Rome is now ruled, Tarquinius does not dare ; The turn of the screw. It is a curious story, Miles! / Benjamin Britten -- The tender land. Martin's song / Aaron Copland -- Cold sassy tree. o there you were, Sometimes th' pain of missin' him ; Of mice and men. Lennie's aria (Oh, I feel cold inside) ; Wuthering heights. The marry me, Cathy / Carlisle Floyd -- The beggar's opera. O cruel, cruel case! / John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten -- L'amour des trois oranges. Il est drò‚le, le prince! / Sergei Prokofiev -- Aleko. Young gypsy's romance / Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Our town. The stage manager's aria / Ned Rorem -- Arabella. Ich hab's geschworen ; Ariadne auf Naxos. Im gegenteil ; Capriccio. Das Sonett (Kein Andres, deas mir so im Herzen loht) ; Der Rosenkavalier. Di rigori armato il seno / Richard Strauss -- Mavra. Hussar's aria ; The rake's progress. Here I stand, Love, too frequently betrayed, Vary the song, Sellem's auction scene, I have waited / Igor Stravinsky -- Anna Nicole. Valium, prozac / Mark-Anthony Turnage.
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