M1507.A75M41

Includes preface in English. Includes 2 Cd's

Adriana Lecouvreur. Acerba voluttà / music Francesco Cilea ; libretto Arturo Colautti -- Il barbiere di Siviglia. Una voce poco fa / music Gioachino Rossini ; libretto Cesare Sterbini -- Cavalleria rusticana. Voi lo sapete / music Pietro Mascagni ; libretto Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci -- La Cenerentola. Non più mesta / music Gioachino Rossini ; libretto Jacopo Ferretti -- Cos? fan tutte. Smanie implacabili / music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto Lorenzo da Ponte -- La favorita. O mio Fernando! / music Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto Alphonse Royer ... [et al.] -- La Gioconda. Voce di donna / music Amilcare Ponchielli ; libretto Tobia Gorria -- L'italiana in Algeri. Cruda sorte!/ Già so per pratica / music Gioachino Rossini ; libretto Angeli Anelli -- Lucrezia Borgia. Il segreto per esser felici : brindisi / music Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto Felice Romani -- Le nozze di Figaro. Non so più cosa son ; Voi, che sapete / music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto Lorenzo da Ponte -- Orfeo ed Euridice. Che far? senza Euridice? / music Christoph Willibald von Gluck ; libretto Raniero de' Calzabigi -- Il trovatore. Stride la vampa! / music Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto Salvatore Cammarano -- Carmen. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle : habanera ; Près des remparts de Séville : seguidilla ; En vain, pour éviter / music Georges Bizet ; libretto Henri Meihac and Ludovic Halévy. Contents: Faust. Faites-lui mes aveux / music Charles Gounod ; libretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carré -- Les Huguenots. Nobles seigneurs, salut! / music Giacomo Meyerbeer ; libretto Eugène Scribe and Emile Deschamps -- Roméo et Juliette. Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle / music Charles Gounod ; libretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carré -- Samson et Dalila. Printemps qui commence ; Amour! viens aider ma faiblesse! ; Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix / music Camille Saint-Saëns ; libretto Ferdinand Lemaire -- Werther. Va! laisse couler mes larmes / music Jules Massenet ; libretto Edouard Blau ... [et al] -- Die Fledermaus. Chacun à son goût / music Johann Strauss, Jr. ; libretto Carl Haffner and Richard Genée -- The ballad of Baby Doe. Augusta! How can you turn away? / music Douglas Moore ; libretto John Latouche -- The consul. Lullaby / Gian Carlo Menotti -- Dido and Aeneas. When I am laid in earth / music Henry Purcell ; libretto Nahum Tate -- The mother of us all. We cannot retrace our steps / music Virgil Thomson ; libretto Gertrude Stein -- The saint of Bleecker Street. Ah, Michele, don't you know / Gian Carlo Menotti -- Vanessa. Must the winter come so soon? / music Samuel Barber ; libretto Gian Carlo Menotti.

Diction lessons on each aria in the series recorded by top language coaches from the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School plus International Phonetic Alphabet and word for word translations With these book/CD packages that match the standard aria collections edited by Robert L. Larsen, any singer anywhere has access to the best diction coaching available at a very affordable price. Each aria is recorded twice. In the first version the coach recites the text as an actor would speak it, showing flow of the language and the mood. The second version is a slow, deliberate lesson, allowing time for the student to repeat each line. These experienced language coaches adapt the "R" in German and French in the slow versions for singers. They also are very sensitive to liaisons between word sounds in the musical settings. The book includes International Phonetic Alphabet for each aria and word for word translations. The native speaking professional diction coaches from the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School are: Corradina Caporello for Italian, Pierre Vallet for French, Irene Spiegelman for German, Kathryn LaBouff for English, Yveta Synek Graff for Czech, and Gina Levinson for Russian. Companion to 50481101 Arias for Bass.