Cheryl Frances-Hoad's One Life Stand for Mezzo-Soprano with Piano accompaninment sets a text by Sophie Hannah. 'The idea for One Life Stand originated from a discussion over lunch in Cambridge with my friend Jennifer Johnston. She was bemoaning the fact that although she loved to sing Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben (Women’s Lives and Loves) and was always being asked to do so she did find Chamisso’s words rather outdated and suggested I write an updated version. I jumped at the chance and by pudding we were already thinking about whose poetry I might set. A few weekslater during a meeting with Chris Gribble (Chief Executive of Writers’ Centre Norwich) he told us that the crime writer and poet Sophie Hannah had recently moved to Cambridge and had many suitable poems. It wasn’t long before we all met up for lunch and began discussing the contenders for a series of poems that might portray a modern woman’s life and loves. To begin with I had a list of about twenty five poems that I would have liked to set taken from four of Sophie’s poetry collections (The Hero and the Girl Next Door (1995) Hotels like Houses (1996) First of the Last Chances (2003) and Pessimism for Beginners (2007: all published by Carcanet Press) but the final eight in my view come together to form a narrative that is clear yet open to interpretation and contains the whole gamut of complex emotions (both serious and humorous) that made the poems such a dream to set to music. Although the idea for the work originated as a reaction to Chamisso’s poetry in the course of composing the cycle I found much inspiration from Schumann’s song cycle and many of the songs in my work are based very closely on either the harmony and/or the motivic material of what in my view is the “corresponding” song in Frauen-Liebe und Leben.' - Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

From the opera Lysistrata-This is Myrrhine's aria from Adamo's recent opera Lysistrata. For Mezzo-Soprano and Piano.

Celebrated arias for Mezzo Soprano/Alto and Piano selected from operas by a range of composers. Includes When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) Una voce poco fa (The Barber Of Seville) and Non Piu di Fiori (La Clemenza di Tito) among others. Compiled by Kurt Adler.

Par THEODORAKIS MIKIS. Cantata For Mezzosoprano And Piano/ Répertoire / Mezzo-Soprano et Piano

Drame, passion, une bonne dose d'humour et, d'abord et avant tout, des mélodies immortelles sont les ingrédients des grands chefs-d'oeuvre de l'histoire de l'opéra italien. Cette collection d'airs contient les plus belles et les plus populaires des pièces en solo de théâtre musical dans un volume chacun. Une coupe transversale de l'art de chanter plus de trois siècles. / Mezzo-Soprano Et Piano

15 Lieder. Par SCHWEINITZ WOLFGANG VON. 15 Lieder/ Recueil / Mezzo-Soprano et Piano

Vier Gesänge auf Gedichte der Karoline von Günderrode für Mezzosopran und Klavier. Par TROJAHN MANFRED. German/ Répertoire / Mezzo-Soprano et Piano

Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. Restitution et réalisation de Michel Verschaeve et Laurence Boulay. Version originale en italien et version française. / classique / Répertoire / Mezzo-Soprano et Piano