| Franz Schubert: Alfonso
und Estrella D 732:
Opera: Vocal Score Opera [Vocal Score] Barenreiter
Romantische Opera in three acts-Alfonso und Estrella D 732Romatic Opera in 3 Act...(+)
Romantische Opera in three acts-Alfonso und Estrella D 732Romatic Opera in 3 ActsIn late September or early October 1821 Schubert and his close friend Franz von Schober vacationed in the countryside of Lower Austria. Their first stopover was at Ochsenburg Castle which belonged to the Bishop of St. Pölten (a close relative of Schober?s) after which they moved on to St. Pölten itself. Roughly a year earlier two stage works by Schubert had been performed in Vienna: the one-act singspiel Die Zwillingsbrüder and the melodrama Die Zauberharfe. The librettos were both written by the seasoned Viennese playwright Georg von Hofmann who blamed the press for the indifferent reception the two works weregiven by the audience. Schubert and Schober now decided it would seem to write a grand romantic opera uninfluenced by the workaday world of the theatre and beholden solely to their own ideas of what an opera should be.Not until 24 June 1854 was the opera finally performed in Weimar under the baton of Franz Liszt. It only achieved success however in an arrangement by Johann Nepomuk Fuchs that was staged on many German and Austrian stages in 1881 2 allegedly with 'brilliant acclaim'.Urtext of the New Schubert EditionFull score (BA5540) and vocal score (BA5540-90) available for salePerformance material (BA5540-72) available for hire
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| Thomas Adès Tom Cairns:
The Exterminating Angel:
Opera: Vocal Work Opera [Vocal Score] Faber Music Limited
An Opera in Three Acts-Adès?s third opera The Exterminating Angel premiered at...(+)
An Opera in Three Acts-Adès?s third opera The Exterminating Angel premiered at the Salzburg Festival in July 2016. Based on Luis Buñuel?s surrealist classic El ángel exterminador the opera sees a collection of society?s grandees inexplicably trapped in a room.The libretto adapted from the original Buñuel-Alcoriza screenplay by the composer together with the director Tom Cairns brilliantly captures their descent into anarchy. Featuring a jaw-dropping 15 principals (who remain on stage for the majority of the piece) The Exterminating Angel is a true ensemble opera and the skill with which Adès delineates the many intricacies and undercurrents present over itsdensely-packed span (just under two hours plus interval) is breathtaking. Like the shipwrecked characters of The Tempest the cast of this new opera are held in a state of entrapment and dramatic stasis. Like the glittering high-society world of Powder Her Face the dinner party guests are denizens of a nightmarish world of aristocratic pretension.
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| Faust (GOUNOD CHARLES) Opera [Sheet music] Barenreiter
Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second...(+)
Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second version)
Dialogue versions. Par GOUNOD CHARLES. Charles Gounod’s “Faust” secured its international recognition in the version as an entirely sung opera, which from thenceforth has largely obscured the fact that the work was originally composed with spoken dialogues. The early versions staged prior to the 1869 performance at the Paris Opéra containing substantial unknown material and with dialogues and melodramas are the subject of this new edition. (The third version “version opera” was published in a separate edition BA 8713 in 2016.)
Even as the rehearsals were taking place at the Théâtre-Lyrique in 1858, during the first series of performances at the theatre in 1859, furthermore as the 1862 revival was approaching and during the performances on the smaller stage at the Place du Châtelet, there were constant changes and revisions. It is, thus, impossible to identify manifestly definitive versions. Nevertheless, by drawing on the entire source material now at hand (including fascinating material only recently discovered) and on the whole gamut of aspects communicated by the reception, Paul Prévost systematically presents us with a score laid out in two main versions in whose chronology constancy and change become transparent. With all the musical changes having been documented, the result is a practicable score for performances which reveals a still far too unknown “Faust” – a “Faust” that is rooted in the tradition of the opéra comique.
Quite a few musical numbers are published as a score for the first time in this edition: the trio for Faust, Wagner and Siebel “À l’étude ô mon maître”, the duet of Valentin and Marguerite “Adieu, mon bon frère!”, Méphistophélès’ air “Maître Scarabée”, Siebel’s romance “Versez vos chagrins dans mon âme!”, Valentin’s air with chorus “Chaque jour, nouvelle affaire”, the chorus of witches “Un deux et trois”, and also seven melodramas whose missing or incomplete orchestration has been written for our edition. It was only recently that the long-lost second part of Faust’s original cavatina “Salut! demeure chaste et pure” was unearthed. Only in details of orchestration do other numbers differ from the well-known pieces./ Répertoire / Opéra
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| Thomas Adès: The Tempest
(2003): Opera: Libretto Opera Faber Music Limited
Opera in 3 acts Text: Meredith Oakes after Shakespeare-The Libretto of the Ope...(+)
Opera in 3 acts Text: Meredith Oakes after Shakespeare-The Libretto of the Opera by Thomas Ades adapted from the Shakespeare comedy by Meredith Oakes. The Opera was first performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in February 2004.
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| Georg Friedrich Händel:
Xerxes (Serse): Opera:
Vocal Score Opera [Sheet music] Chester
Georg Frideric Händel?s Serse (Xerxes) has everything one would expect from a B...(+)
Georg Frideric Händel?s Serse (Xerxes) has everything one would expect from a Baroque opera - many intertwining love stories affairs intrigues scheming misunderstanding and forgiving allpresented in the great master?s magnificent music.The opera is set in Persia in 480 BC and is very loosely based upon Xerxes I of Persia though there is little in either the Baroque libretto or music that is relevant tothat setting the main focus is on the characters (Serse Arsamene Amastre Romilda Atalanta Ariodate and Elviro some of which are based on real historical persons) and their plotting. The English version forthe opera in three acts was made for the English National Opera?s production first performed in 1985 on the 300th anniversary of Händel?s birth.In this edition of the Vocal score with the original Italian and thelater English lyrics accompaniment is provided by the instruments indicated in the orchestration (2 Recorders (or Flutes) 2 Oboes 2 Horns in F Trumpet in D Strings and Continuo [Harpsichord Cello Double Bass Bassoon]) butcan also be played by the Piano. Serse?s part originally sung by a castrato can be performed by a Soprano or a Countertenor.
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| Leos Janácek: The
Cunning Little Vixen:
Opera Vocal Scores: Vocal
Album Opera Barenreiter
Opera in three acts. Leos Janácek began composing his seventh opera, ?The Cunni...(+)
Opera in three acts. Leos Janácek began composing his seventh opera, ?The Cunning Little Vixen?, based on the popular feuilletons of Rudolf Tesnohlídek, in January 1922. The first copy of the score, since lost, was completed by Václav Sedlácek in October 1923, while the second copy was prepared by Jaroslav Kulhánek in January 1924. The world premiere took place on 6 November 1924 under the direction of Ota Zítek and was conducted by Frantisek Neumann. The vocal score was published in Czech before the event and then again in 1925 along with the German translation by Max Brod, which is something of a separate version of the text in its own right.
This volume of the complete edition reprints the critical edition by Jirí Zahrádka, which was published by Universal Edition in 2010. The present edition newly includes transcriptions of the libretto in three languages (Cz/Eng/Ger) and a detailed Critical Report (Eng). The edition draws on all extant sources and ? in consideration of Janácek?s active participation in rehearsals for the premiere production ? integrates both the dynamics of Franti?ek Neumann and the performance markings of Sir Charles Mackerras into the musical text.
This is the third opera to be published in the complete edition, following ?Fate? and ?The Makropulos Affair?.
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| Richard Danielpour:
Margaret Garner: Opera:
Vocal Score Opera [Sheet music] Associated
Opera Vocal Score-'More than anything else Margaret Garner is an opera that rem...(+)
Opera Vocal Score-'More than anything else Margaret Garner is an opera that reminds us that we all belong to the same human family and it demonstrates what can happen when we forget this fundamental truth... - RichardDanielpour This Opera by Grammy-winning composer Richard Danielpour tells the story of Margaret Garner an enslaved African-American woman in pre-Civil War America who gained notoriety for killing her owndaughter to prevent her from suffering the degradation of a life of slavery. In this adaptation of the famous tale Edward Gaines acquires his deceased brother’s Kentucky estate and pledges to let all of the slave familieson the Maplewood Plantation stay together. However when he takes a special interest in one of the slaves Margaret Garner it is not long before her husband Robert is sent away alone to another plantation. One night Robertsneaks back to Maplewood and attempts to escape with Margaret and their children to the ‘Free State’ of Ohio. They are caught and Margaret murders her children in a crime of passion sparing them from a life of slavery. Margaretis condemned to death and although she is granted clemency at the last minute she chooses the freedom of the gallows over life as a slave. The tragic work features a libretto by Toni Morrison and gained highcritical praise at its first performance in Philadelphia in 2006. Watch a clip from the performance here:
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| Il Tito (Score/Vocal
Score): Opera: Score Opera [Sheet music] Novello & Co Ltd.
Opera in three acts edited by Alan Curtis. This opera was first performed in Ve...(+)
Opera in three acts edited by Alan Curtis. This opera was first performed in Venice in 1666. It may with justice be considered to be the finest opera written between Monteverdi's 'Poppea' and the dramatic works of the mature Purcell. Having in 1983 presided over the first modern revival of 'Il Tito' in Innsbruck the city of its original commissioning Alan Curtis has now produced the first complete performing edition to be drawn from available sources.
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| Philip Glass: Akhnaten
Act 1-3: Opera: Score Opera [Sheet music] Dunvagen Music Publishers
Einstein the man of science; Gandhi the man of politics; Akhnaten the man of ...(+)
Einstein the man of science; Gandhi the man of politics; Akhnaten the man of religion. These three men revolutionised the thoughts and ideas of their times and the subject of this Opera in three acts. The libretto wascompleted by Glass in association with Shalom Goldman Robert Israel and Richard Riddell. The Opera itself was commissioned by The Stuttgart State Opera and premiered in March 1984.
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| Georges Bizet: Carmen:
Opera: Libretto Opera Schirmer
Standard Version with sung recitatives-Although almost unanimously condemned by ...(+)
Standard Version with sung recitatives-Although almost unanimously condemned by contemporary Parisian critics for its overt sexuality and graphic final scene Carmen ultimately reached the public in a way that perhaps no other opera has. Bizet's aim (with Meilhac andHalevy who wrote the libretto) had been to transform the flaccid moralistic bourgeois genre of opéra comique into a more sophisticated type of staged work and he seems to have suceeded in Carmen. Each character has a musicalsignificance and a unique expressive idiom the ultimate example being the dangerous exotic sensual Carmen herself depicted by an exotic and sinewy chromatic motive that also implies the insurmountable power of fate. In aclassic plot device she is contrasted with the 'good girl' of the opera Micaela whose main aria is set in the ternary form of the elevated bel canto French Grand Opera aria to imply her traditionally 'ladylike' retiring nature.Don José's musical styles reflect different levels in his descent from dutiful soldier to the underworld of obsession.This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto in the original French with an English translation by Ruthand Thomas Martin.
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| Gian Carlo Menotti: Amahl
and the Night Visitors:
Opera: Score Opera - Intermediate/advanced Schirmer
Opera Full Score-The first opera written for television 'Amahl and the Night Vi...(+)
Opera Full Score-The first opera written for television 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' has become the most frequently performed opera of all time with over five hundred performances annually across the world. Menotti's take on theChristmas story focuses on Amahl a young handicapped boy and his mother who are visited by three Kings -- Balthazar Melchior and Kaspar -- who are on their way to find Jesus. The Kings stay the night during which Amahl'smother tries to steal some of the Kings' gold and is caught in the act. Melchior suggests that she keep the gold because the child they are visiting will rule his kingdom with love not riches. Amahl's mother gives back the gold wishing she had something to give of her own. Amahl offers his crutch as a gift and suddenly is able to walk. He decides to follow the Kings so that he himself may give his crutch to the Christ child.The work is ideal foran amateur performance (for example a secondary school or a local dramatic society) since all the action takes place in one act and one place and the work calls for limited adaptable musical forces. It also gives each principala chance to shine either in a solo or an ensemble.This is the Schirmer hardback edition of the full score.
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| Thomas Adès: The
Tempest: Opera: Vocal
Score Opera [Sheet music] Faber Music Limited
Opera in 3 acts Text: Meredith Oakes after Shakespeare-The opera The Tempest i...(+)
Opera in 3 acts Text: Meredith Oakes after Shakespeare-The opera The Tempest is inspired by Shakespeareâ??s play rather than literally being based on every aspect of it. There are key images from the play as well as new material. From among the playâ??s many themes and possible interpretations the opera focusses on the difficulty and the necessity of mercy. The libretto uses contemporary vocabulary. Its lines are short rhythmic and rhymed or semi-rhymed echoing Shakespeareâ??s strophic songs more than his blank verse. This choice reflects the playâ??s magical ritual childlike elements and acknowledges the traditional power of incantation in song. The operatic Prospero is the passionately vengeful man seen in the play more than the wise disconnected actor also seen there. Despite his near-omnipotence he finds things out as he goes along and experiences contradictory emotions to the end. Please note: Full Score and Parts are rental material. Please contact hire@fabermusic.com
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| William Schwenck Gilbert
Arthur Sullivan:
Patience: Opera: Libretto Opera [Libretti] Faber Music Limited
This opera opened April 23 1881 at the Opera Comique and ran for 578 performanc...(+)
This opera opened April 23 1881 at the Opera Comique and ran for 578 performances at both the Opera Comique and Savoy Theatres. The county dames are in love with two poets while the poets are both in love with Patience the village milkmaid. The brigade men don't see the point to aesthetics but decide they had better give it a try to win the women's love.
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| Søren Nils Eichberg
Hannah Dübgen: Glare - A
Chamber Opera: Opera:
Score Opera - Intermediate/advanced Wilhelm Hansen
Glare - Chamber Opera by Søren Nils Eichberg was premiered with great success...(+)
Glare - Chamber Opera by Søren Nils Eichberg was premiered with great success at the Royal Opera House in London on November 14 2014.
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| Louise Boserup Alenius:
Silent Zone - A Chamber
Opera: Opera: Vocal Score Opera [Sheet music] Wilhelm Hansen
Vocal score for Silent Zone - A Chamber Opera (2016-17) by Louise Alenius. Comm...(+)
Vocal score for Silent Zone - A Chamber Opera (2016-17) by Louise Alenius. Commissioned by Copenhagen Opera Festival. Text by the composer. Instr.: S Ct.B; boys choir; perc.pf(cel).vn.va.vc.db Score: WH32955 Parts are avilable on hire: hire@ewh.dk
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| Andy Pape Rasmus Zwicki:
Andre Bygninger - En
Opera i 2 Akter: Opera:
Score Opera [Sheet music] - Intermediate Wilhelm Hansen
Andre Bygninger - a Chamber Opera in 2 acts by Andy Pape (2011-2014). Libretto b...(+)
Andre Bygninger - a Chamber Opera in 2 acts by Andy Pape (2011-2014). Libretto by Rasmus Zwicki. Commissioned and premiered by Den Fynske Opera in April 2015.
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| Andy Pape Rasmus Zwicki:
Andre Bygninger - En
Opera i 2 Akter: Opera:
Vocal Opera [Sheet music] - Intermediate Wilhelm Hansen
Vocal score for Andre Bygninger - a Chamber Opera in 2 acts by Andy Pape (2011-2...(+)
Vocal score for Andre Bygninger - a Chamber Opera in 2 acts by Andy Pape (2011-2014). Libretto by Rasmus Zwicki. Commissioned and premiered by Den Fynske Opera in April 2015.
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| Judith Weir: A Night At
The Chinese Opera: Opera:
Vocal Work Opera [Sheet music] Novello & Co Ltd.
Judith Weir's A Night At The Chinese Opera. Vocal score. Opera in 3 Acts with li...(+)
Judith Weir's A Night At The Chinese Opera. Vocal score. Opera in 3 Acts with libretto by the composer based on the 13th Century Chinese drama The Chao Family Orphan.
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| Søren Nils Eichberg
Hannah Dübgen: Glare - A
Chamber Opera: Opera:
Vocal Score Opera - Intermediate/advanced Wilhelm Hansen
Glare - Chamber Opera by Søren Nils Eichberg was premiered with great success...(+)
Glare - Chamber Opera by Søren Nils Eichberg was premiered with great success at the Royal Opera House in London on November 14 2014.
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| Simon Holt: The
Nightingale's To Blame:
Opera: Vocal Score Opera [Sheet music] Chester
This new Opera was first performed in 1998 in Huddersfield by Opera North. Desig...(+)
This new Opera was first performed in 1998 in Huddersfield by Opera North. Designed for the modern stage it utilises only a small cast and orchestra albeit one with a good variety of percussion! The libretto is adapted by thecomposer from the play ‘The Love of Don Pemperlin for Belisa in the Garden’ by Feredico Garcia Lorca translated into English by David Johnston. The plot revolves around the ill-fated marriage of Don Pemperlin an ageing bachelorand his beautiful neighbour Belisa which was suggested by Pemperlin’s maid. Tricks and misunderstandings abound and because of them Pemperlin ends by stabbing himself and dying even as Belisa proclaims her love for him.
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| Poul Ruders: The
Thirteenth Child: Opera:
Score Opera [Sheet music] Wilhelm Hansen
A Fairytale Opera In Two Acts-The Thirteenth Child - A Fairytale Opera In Two Ac...(+)
A Fairytale Opera In Two Acts-The Thirteenth Child - A Fairytale Opera In Two Acts by Poul Ruders (2014-15). Libretto by Becky Starobin and David Starobin. Scenario by Becky Starobin. Suggested by 'The Twelve Brothers' by the Brothers Grimm. SYNOPSIS Act 1 Scene 1 The neighboring Kingdoms of Frohagord and Hauven are in crisis. Following a warning by his embittered cousin Drokan Regent of Hauven King Hjarne of Frohagord is convinced that his twelve sons are plotting to overthrow him. The twelve princes oblivious to their father's paranoia play in the courtyard. The enraged King threatensthe safety of his sons telling his pregnant wife Queen Gertrude that she must provide him with a female heir as 'only she shall wear the crown'. Gertrude calms Hjarne and they sing of the Lilies of Frohagord magical flowers that protect the kingdom. When Benjamin the youngest prince innocently plucks a lily from the garden Hjarne flies into a mad rage and strikes Gertrude. Drokan observing the encounter admits his love for Gertrude and feels 'the trembling of the earth'. Act 1 Scene 2 Eighteen years have passed and King Hjarne has just died. At Hjarne's funeral Frederic Drokan and the mourners tell of the mysterious disappearance of the King's thirteen children and the shadows that haunt the kingdom. Queen Gertrude now mortally ill and her daughter Princess Lyra enter the Royal Chapel. Gertrude is repelled by the sight of Drokan while Frederic is drawn to Lyra. Drokan plots to usurp the Kingdom of Frohagord and Frederic dreams of the day when Lyra will be his. Act 1 Scene 3 Queen Gertrude is on her deathbed attended by Princess Lyra. Lyra asks her mother why she was sent away. Gertrude has Lyra open a secret drawer where Lyra finds twelve shirts
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| Kaija Saariaho: L'Amour:
Opera: Score Opera [Sheet music] - Advanced Chester
Saariaho’s L’armour De Loin is an opera in five acts and was premi...(+)
Saariaho’s L’armour De Loin is an opera in five acts and was premiered in Salzburg in August 2000 with additional productions being staged at the theatre Bern in Switzerland. The story is based on the life ofPrince of Bleye one of the first great troubadours of the 12th century and follows his glowing passion for a woman from the East of whom he has only heard is the central theme of the libretto. Libretto written by AminMaalouf.This is the Full Score of Saariaho’s remarkable opera.
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| Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Dardanus: Opera: Score Opera Barenreiter
Trag?die en un prologue et cinq actes-The first version of ???Dardanus??? which...(+)
Trag?die en un prologue et cinq actes-The first version of ???Dardanus??? which was performed at the end of 1739 was composed apparently in only six months and marks a particularly productive phase in Rameau???s career. In a period of only six years five of his major works were performed at the Acad?mie Royale de Musique in Paris.The theme is taken from Greek mythology: the opera describes the war between Teucer (the future founder of Troy) his Phrygian people and the army of Dardanus.A milestone of French Baroque opera in a performance practice orientated vocal scoreWith a brief foreword (Fr/Eng) containing salient information on the genesis of the work the synopsis and the editionFull score (BA8854) and vocal score (BA8854-90) available for salePerformance material (BA8854-72) available for hire
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| Robert Saxton: Caritas:
Opera: Vocal Score Opera [Sheet music] Chester
Vocal Score for the Opera in Two Acts.Caritas’ is in two acts the first ...(+)
Vocal Score for the Opera in Two Acts.Caritas’ is in two acts the first consisting of 12 short scenes the second being a continuous scena.The overall form of the opera retains the architecture of Wesker’s stage play butalters the proportions in order to create a musically dynamic form. While each scene of the first act is centred around a specific pitch the second act is a Passacaglia whose ‘ground’ is a Cantus Firmus each repetition ofwhich begins on a different note from those of its previous statements. These large-scale architectural features are both reflected in and derived from the musical material itself.
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| Richard Wagner:
Gotterdammerung: Opera:
Libretto Opera Schirmer
The final episode of the Ring cycle 'Gotterdammerung' is itself a colossal work...(+)
The final episode of the Ring cycle 'Gotterdammerung' is itself a colossal work - one of the longest evenings of opera in the standard repertory. Musically Wagner has gained such mastery of his music drama and his use of musicalmotives that he treats both with superb freedom - the handling of Leitmotives in this opera can be thought of as one of the most powerful psychological achievements in art. This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto in theoriginal German with an English translation by Stewart Robb.
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