French Operatic Arias for Bass
19th Century Repertoire
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- Composers: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896), Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Victor Massé (1822-1884)
- Editor: Roger Nichols
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Bass
- Originally for: Opera
- Work Language: French
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- Size: 9.1 x 12.0 inches
Description
Complete with translations and guidance on pronunciation. 'As every singer and lover of French opera knows, editions of even the best-known French operatic arias are difficult – and sometimes expensive – to obtain. Roger Nichols' scrupulously balanced selection of 19th-century French arias provides the perfect starting point for widerexploration. Nichols, who has championed French music in his writings, talks and radiobroadcasts over three decades with eloquence and scholarship, is the ideal guide to this repertoire which, even today, is often neglected, misunderstood or inadequately performed.
Works:
- Meyerbeer: Piff, paff from Les Huguenots
- Meyerbeer: Ô jours heureux from L'étoile du nord
- Berlioz: Certain rat dans une cuisine from La damnation de Faust, H 111, Op. 24
- A. Thomas: Je t'implore from Hamlet
- Verdi: Et toi, Palerme from Les vêpres siciliennes
- Verdi: Elle ne m'aime pas from Don Carlos
- Gounod: Le veau d'or from Faust, CG 4
- Gounod: Vous qui faites l'endormie from Faust, CG 4
- Gounod: Au bruit des lourds marteaux from Philémon et Baucis, CG 4
- Gounod: Le grand art de cuisine from La colombe, CG 6
- Gounod: Sous les pieds d'une femme from La colombe, CG 6
- Massé: Tristes amours! from Galathée
- Saint-Saëns: Ce Dieu que votre voix implore from Samson and Delilah, Op. 47
- Saint-Saëns: Fatal orgueil des Rois from Henry VIII
- Bizet: Quand la flamme de l'amour from La jolie fille de Perth
- Massenet: Qu'on est digne d'envie from Le Cid
- Massenet: Il a fait noblement from Le Cid
- Massenet: Comment peut-on penser from Don Quichotte
- Massenet: Je suis le chevalier errant from Don Quichotte
- Debussy: Maintenant que le père de Pelléas est sauvé from Pelléas et Mélisande, CD 93, L 88
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French Operatic Arias for Bass
