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. CONTENTS FOR SOPRANO: John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Am I in your light? - NIXON IN CHINA: I don't daydream - Dominick Argento: THE BOOR: The Widow's Aria - CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Though absent from these ears and eyes - THE VOYAGE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE: Virginia's Aria - Leonard Bernstein: A QUIET PLACE: Dede's Aria - Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: I'm full of happiness - Miss Wordsworth's Aria - GLORIANA: The Dressing-Table Song - The Queen's Dilemma - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Injurious Hermia - PETER GRIMES: Let her among you without fault - Embroidery Aria - THE TURN OF THE SCREW: How beautiful it is - Lost in my labyrinth - Aaron Copland: THE TENDER LAND: Laurie's Song - Carlisle Floyd: COLD SASSY TREE: Rented rooms - OF MICE AND MEN: Curly's Wife's Aria - SUSANNAH: Ain't it a pretty night - The trees on the mountains - WUTHERING HEIGHTS: I've dreamt in my life - John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: I'm like a skiff on the ocean tossed - When young at the bar...Ungrateful Macheath! - Henry Purcell, realized and edited by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst: DIDO AND AENEAS: Oft she visits this lov'd mountain - Thanks to these lonesome vales - Sergei Rachmaninoff: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Francesca's Aria - Ned Rorem: OUR TOWN: Emily's Aria - Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Das war sehr gut, Mandryka - ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Es gibt ein Reich - CAPRICCIO: Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht (Letzte Szene/Final Scene) - DER ROSENKAVALIER: Da geht er hin (Monolog der Marschallin/Marschallin's Monologue) - Igor Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: No word from Tom...I go to him CONTENTS FOR COLORATURA SOPRANO: John Adams: NIXON IN CHINA: I am the wife of Mao Tsetung - Dominick Argento: MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: I see in you a looking glass - POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: Lady with a Hand Mirror Aria - Jack Beeson: CAPTAIN JINKS OF THE HORSE MARINES: Aurelia's Aria - Leonard Bernstein: CANDIDE: Glitter and Be Gay - Benjamin Britten: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Come, now a roundel - Be kind and courteous - Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Die Wiener Herrn verstehn sich - ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Grossmätige Prinzessin - Igor Stravinsky: LE ROSSIGNOL: Chanson du Rossignol