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 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