Classic Opera

The Trial is an opera by renowned composer Philip Glass featuring a libretto by Christopher Hampton. The opera is based on Franz Kafka's classic surreal tale of a man arrested by an unknown authority foran unspecific crime. The entire opera lasts around 120 minutes. The Trial is the second opera by Philip Glass based on Franz Kafka's writings the first being 'In ThePenal Colony'. This opera was commissioned by and dedicated to Music Theatre Wales in honour of their 25th anniversary. The vocal parts in the opera are Soprano Mezzo-Soprano 2 Tenors 2 Baritones Bass-Baritone andBass.  Glass's operas have received worldwide acclaim adding to the extensive list of musical forms to which he has lent his incomparable compositional talents.

Romantic Arias for Classical Guitar is a collection of the world’s most beloved songs from the world of opera. An aria is a song performed during an opera that listeners are the most familiar with.These “pop songs of opera' provide an entry point for those unfamiliar with the opera repertoire considered by many as the most expressive genre of western music. For those who are familiar with the world of opera you willrecognize the selections here as the arias most beloved by millions of listeners around the world. This project a labor of love by master guitarist Steve Eckels contains the most famous melodies by composers Verdi andPuccini including the great operas La Traviata  Madame Butterfly  La Bohème  Turandot  Nabucco  Tosca and Rigoletto. Alsoincluded are Massenet’s Meditation Delibes’ Flower Duet Offenbach’s Barcarolle  Bizet’s Habanera and others. The pieces have been arrangedfor recreational or concert guitarists and have been meticulously fingered and engraved for ease of learning. The author has also provided music reading warm-ups to assist in learning the pieces. Eckels’ performances of allthe arrangements on YouTube will provide an aid in familiarizing yourself with the most beloved songs ever written.  Includes access to online audio.

Ephemera classique du Classic FM est une collection divertissante plaisante et les caprices du monde de la musique classique. Ce livre contient des nuggets de fait musical que vous ne saviez pas que vous avait besoin de savoir et amassez des renseignements utiles, sans que vous ne devriez pas être. Il comprend une section sur les compositeurs célèbres ainsi que des parcelles en pot de célèbres opéras, racontées comme vous n'avez jamais entendu auparavant. Il est instructif, captivante, divertissant et souvent hilarants. Ecrit par les auteurs de la Classic FM Pocket Books, ce volume considérable de trivia devrait être sur les tablettes du toute grave mélomane. / Divers

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.

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.

Composer's Program Note Repertoire operas occationally have orchestral suites: Bits and pieces of overture interlude etc. tied upin a bouquet of 'schönste Tränen'. Contemporary opera usually wither after the first season so the focusis on getting people to come and have a sniff before it's too late. Consequently it seemed obvious to meto start making orchestral excerpts from my operas that are meant to be played before the premiere (andafter please); I call them 'opera trailers' when they're substantial enough to be considered independent works and 'opera demos' when they're relatively short and moreappetizer-ish. SNOW WHITE'S MIRROR is a full scale two act dramatic opera written for the Danish National Opera. The opera is a modern re-telling for grown-ups of the brothers Grimm's fairy tale: Snow White is a self-centered teenage narcissist and the villain of the opera; she ends up loosing everyone but herself either because she kills them or because they decide they can't stand being around her anymore. But apparently she's o.k. with that...The music is intended for a large audience: it's basically pop music done with all the craftmanship of aclassical composer who's equally at home with large scale symphonic form avantgarde technique opera singing - and modern pop. The Trailer is in three movements. It contains three sections of the opera; the prelude an interlude close to the beginning of the second act and the final scene but one. It's a gloomy sort of trailer starting out in grand title sequence style moving on to a decidedly odd piece where Snow White find her way to the dwarfs (who're creepy junkies doing pornography to get money to buy dope) and ending in kind of an eerie rejection mood: Everyone still alive walks out on Snow White singing 'skin as white as snow hands red with blood soul as black as ivory'.(NM 2010)

Classical Melodies for Saxophone Ensemble. 22 famous melodies arranged for Saxophone Ensemble

Classical Melodies for Trombone Ensemble. 22 famous melodies arranged for Trombone Ensemble

Classical Melodies for Flute Ensemble. 22 famous melodies arranged for Flute Ensemble

World Famous Classicscontient seize mélodies mondialement célèbres, extraites du répertoire de la musique classique. Certaines mélodies vous sont familières, d'autres sont à découvrir à travers ce voyage dans l'histoire de la musique (Henri VIII, Bach, Mozart, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaïkovski, etc.) / [CD inclus - version intégrale + play-along]. / Flûte A Bec / Partition + Cd

Arias for Tenor-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 translationsWith these book/CDpackages 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 thecoach 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 coachesadapt 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 ariaand 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 Spiegelmanfor German Kathryn LaBouff for English Yveta Synek Graff for Czech and Gina Levinson for Russian. Companion to 50481099 Arias for Tenor.

22 Hit Songs Arranged In Standard Notation And Tab. Par LLOYD WEBBER ANDREW. 22 of Lloyd Webber's most familiar compositions are featured in this collection for classical guitar, including: All I Ask of You (from The Phantom of the Opera) - Close Every Door (from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) - Don't Cry for Me Argentina (from Evita) - I Don't Know How to Love Him (from Jesus Christ Superstar) - Love Changes Everything (from Aspects of Love) - Memory (from Cats) - Only You (from Starlight Express) - Pie Jesu (from Requiem) - Tell Me on a Sunday (from Song and Dance) - and more. Includes standard notation and tablature./ Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures Classique

La série Saxophone Play-Along vous aidera à jouer vos chansons préférées rapidement et facilement. Il suffit de suivre la musique enregistrée sur le CD pour entendre comment le violon doit sonner, puis jouer en utilisant la piste d'accompagnement séparée. Avec la mélodie et les paroles dans le recueil, vous pouvez également choisir de chanter en même temps. Les diagrammes d'accords sont fournis. Versions pour saxophones en Bb et Eb. Le CD audio est lisibles sur n'importe quel lecteur CD. Pour les utilisateurs d'ordinateurs PC et Mac, le CD est améliorée de sorte que vous pouvez régler l'enregistrement à n'importe quel tempo sans changer la tonalité!Titres : Baker Street [Rafferty, Gerry] - Deacon Blues [Steely Dan] - Jazzman [King, Carole] - Smooth Operator [Sade] - The Heart Of Rock And Roll [Huey Lewis and the News] - Turn The Page [Seger, Bob] - Who Can It Be Now? [Men At Work] - Young Americans [Bowie, David] / Saxophone