Includes scenarios and notes on the operas, in English.
Contents:
Sold! Annoyed! / I must have been hysterical ; Doctor Atomic. Am I in your light ?, Past fierce and tossing skies ; El Niño. La anunciación / Igor Stravinsky. The Aspern papers. On the stroke of midnight! ; Casanova's Homecoming. Bellino's aria, Madame d'Urfé's aria ; The dream of Valentino. Was it truly destiny, Nazimova's aria ; Miss Havisham's fire. Estella's aria ; Postcard from Morocco. A foreign singer's aria / Dominick Argento -- Mass. Thank you ; Trouble in Tahiti. There is a garden, What a movie! / Leonard Bernstein -- Albert Herring. Doctor Jessop's midwife, What would Missus Herring say? ; A midsummer night's dream. Lysander, help me Lysander ; The rape of Lucretia. She sleeps as a rose upon the night, Give him this orchid, Is it all? / Benjamin Britten -- The tender land. Ma's song / Aaron Copland -- Wuthering heights. Take off that frown / Carlisle Floyd -- The beggar's opera. Thus when a good housewife sees a rat . . . How cruel are the traytors / John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten -- Dido and Aeneas. Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment, When I am laid in earth / Henry Purcell ; realized and edited by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst -- Miss Julie. Wind around me like Satan's snake / Ned Rorem -- Aradne auf Naxos. Sein wir wieder gut ; Der Rosenkavalier. Wie Du warst! / Richard Strauss -- Mavra. The mother's aria ; Œdipus Rex. Nonn' erusbeskite, reges ; The rake's progress. Ass I was saying . . . Scorned! Abused!, Sold! Annoyed! / Igor Stravinsky.
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