French Operatic Arias for Tenor
19th Century Repertoire
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- Composers: Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896), Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Gioachino Rossini (1792-1862), Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Daniel Auber (1782-1871), Léo Delibes (1836-1891), Édouard Lalo (1823-1892), François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834), Fromental Halévy, Ernest Reyer
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Tenor
- Originally for: Opera
- Work Language: French
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- Size: 9.1 x 11.9 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 wider exploration. Nichols, who has championed French music in his writings, talks and radio broadcasts 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:
- Auber: Agnès la jouvencelle from Fra Diavolo
- Berlioz: Ah! je vais l’aimer from Béatrice et Bénédict, H. 138
- Berlioz: La gloireétait ma seule idole from Benvenuto Cellini, H 76, Op. 23
- Berlioz: Inutiles regrets from Les Troyens, H 133
- Bizet: La fleur que tum’avais jetée from Carmen
- Bizet: À l a voix d’un amant fidèle from La jolie fille de Perth
- Bizet: Je crois entendre encore from Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
- Boieldieu: Viens, gentile dame from La dame blanche
- Delibes: Fantaisie, aux divins mensonges from Lakmé
- Donizetti: Ange si pur from La favorite, A. 58
- Gounod: Salut! demeure chaste et pure from Faust, CG 4
- Gounod: Anges du paradis from Mireille
- Gounod: Ah! lève-toi, soleil from Roméo et Juliette, CG 9
- Halévy: Rachel! quand du Seigneur from La Juive
- Lalo: Vainement, ma bienaimée from Le roi d'Ys
- Massenet: Ah! fuyez, douce image! from Manon
- Massenet: En fermant les yeux from Manon
- Massenet: Ô nature, pleine de grace from Werther
- Massenet: Pourquoi me réveiller? from Werther
- Meyerbeer: Ô paradis sorti de l’onde from L'Africaine
- Reyer: Esprits, gardiens from Sigurd
- Rossini: Asile héréditaire from Guillaume Tell (William Tell)
- A. Thomas: Elle ne croyait pas from Mignon
- Verdi: Je l’ai vue from Don Carlos
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French Operatic Arias for Tenor
