Monteverdi’s opera “L’Orfeo”, based on the legend of Thracian singer Orpheus and his love of Eurydice, is a masterpiece of musical declamation and ornamentation. It was first performed during the 1607 carnevale in the “Palazzo Ducale” in Mantua. When an edition remains true to its sources, this certainly does not mean that it is not also practical to use, as is demonstrated in this Bärenreiter edition of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”. Edited by Rinaldo Alessandrini, the new publication follows the Bärenreiter edition of Monteverdi’s “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria”. Two contemporary prints of “L’Orfeo” from the years 1609 and 1615 have been passed down to us. Four copies of each of these prints still survive today in public libraries. The later print includes many corrections to the earlier edition and was accordingly used as the primary source for this Bärenreiter edition. However, when solving musical problems the editor frequently follows the more coherent style of the earlier print. The numerous interesting variants, not only between the two editions but also amongst the eight surviving copies, are listed in the critical commentary. This edition of “L’Orfeo” offers in addition to Monteverdi’s somewhat sparse original figures also figures added to the bass line by the editor. The continuo player should, however, feel free to follow his own judgment. The notation has been, when necessary, adapted to suit modern practice, for example with regard to the clefs. The sections that were originally written in “chiavetta” have been transposed a fifth lower. In the appendix these sections also appear in their original notation in facsimile as well as transposed a fourth lower. - Detailed introduction by the editor (Ital/Eng/Ger) on the work’s genesis and performance practice - Comprehensive critical commentary (Eng) in the score - Idiomatic piano reduction Edition no.: BA 8793-90 ISMN: 9790006533121 Composer / Author: Monteverdi, Claudio Title: L'Orfeo Favola in musica in one prologue and five acts Detailed instrumentation: Soprano solo (7), Tenor solo (4), Bass solo (3), Mixed choir: SSATTB, Male choir: TTBBB, Orchestra Librettist: Striggio, Alessandro (junior) Editor: Alessandrini, Rinaldo Foreword / Introduction: Alessandrini, Rinaldo Product format: Piano reduction, Urtext edition Language(s) of work: Italian Language(s) of text: German, Italian, English Publisher: Bärenreiter Binding: Paperback Print run: 1st printing 2012 Pages / Format: XIV, 143 S. - 27,0 x 19,0 cm Weight: 428 g

Mit ?Le comte Ory' erscheint der fünfte Band aus der vielbeachteten Reihe ?Works of Gioachino Rossini'. Nach seiner Uraufführung in Paris feierte das Werk große Erfolge an den europäischen Bühnen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die turbulente Komödie um den Grafen Ory, der sich mit seinen wüsten Kumpanen Zutritt zu einem Nonnenkloster verschafft, ist eines von Rossinis effektvollsten Meisterwerken.Der Herausgeber Damien Colas legt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ?Center for Italian Opera Studies Chicago' eine kritische Neuausgabe vor, die unter Heranziehung einer Vielzahl von Quellen einen originalen Text des Werkes präsentiert, der in vielen Fällen von der bislang erklungenen Überlieferung abweicht. So konnten originale Besetzungen, formale Verläufe und zahlreiche fragliche Lesarten wieder hergestellt bzw. korrigiert werden. / Opéra

Le projet ' OPERA ' - spectre de théâtre musical européen dans Einzeleditionenwidmet l' édition critique des oeuvres marquantes du théâtre européen de la musique du 17e 20 Siècle.Emis un total de 21 compositions en franCais, italien , allemand, anglais , scandinaves et d'origine slave , qui genres aussi ciblés sont inclus , qui ont reCu peu d'attention dans les entreprises éditoriales précédentes et apportent chacun leurs propres problèmes éditoriaux avec elle , comme le ballet , la musique de théâtre , mélodrame ou opérette .Une nouvelle fonctionnalité est la présentation sous la forme d' éditions dits hybrides , publié par les scores welchendie dans les sources de tissu lié , et la undtextlichen musical traditionnel , les éditions des textes dramatiques et les rapports critiques sont préparés et présentés sur une plate-forme électronique ( Edirom ) .Les décisions de l'éditeur est grâce complètement transparent pour la capacité à accéder aux sources sous-jacentes de l'utilisateur . Ce particulier de ' OPERA ' poursuivi accès éditoriale ouvre de nouvelles perspectives pour la science , la scène et concert semblables.La présentation numérique des éditions OPERA utilise le Edirom logiciel , qui a été développé dans le même , basé sur le projet de la Fondation allemande pour la recherche ( DFG ) Université de Paderborn . Tous les composants de la partie électronique sont codés selon les normes modernes en XML , les portions de texte utilisant la norme de la ' Text Encoding Initiative ' ( TEI ) .Les premiers volumes de la série avec Edirom ( Digital Music Edition) :- Antonio Salieri , Giambattista Casti : ' Prima la musica e poi le parole ' (1786 ) , Ed . Thomas Betzwieser / Adrian La Salvia ( BA 8811 )- Adolphe Beno t Blaise , Marie -Justine- Beno te Favart : ' Annette et Lubin ' (1762 ) , Ed . Andreas Münzmay ( BA 8812 )- Thomas Arne , Isaac Bickerstaff , ' Love in a village ' (1762 ) , Ed . N.N. ( BA 8814 )- Ferdinando Paër , Giacomo Cinti : ' Leonora ossia L'amor conjugale ' (1804 ) , Ed . Norbert Dubowy ( BA 8813 )- Pierre de Lindpaintner , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Carl Seydelmann : ' Ouverture , entreacte , des choeurs et des chansons à Faust de Goethe par le cadre pittoresque de Carl Seydelmann ' (1832) , Ed . Antje Tumat ( BA 8815 )' Prima la musica e poi le parole ' ( BA 8811 ) :Le 7 Février 1786 s'inscrivait dans le cadre d'un festival , avait invité à l'empereur Joseph II dans l'Orangerie du château de Schönbrunn , un concours musical mémorable . L'Italien ' Hofoperisten ' a présenté le ' Impresario ' de Mozart , qui a été présenté par un ensemble Singspiel allemand , en face de l' opéra-bouffe ' Prima la musica e poi le de libération conditionnelle ' par Antonio Salieri . Cette satire délicieux opéra appartient au genre de la ' metamelodramma ' dans laquelle l'opéra est l'objet de l' action elle-même . Les personnes impliquées dans une production d'opéra , comme poète , compositeur et Prima Donna , se produisent même en apparence . De cette faCon , il ya une auto-réflexion humoristique de l'artiste dans les personnages de théâtre . Par Salieri dans ce ' théâtre dans le théâtre ' dans le arias aussi parodié la musique de Giuseppe Sarti de ' Giulio Sabino , ' il joue avec pré- existant , le public de première de la musique bien connue . Grâce à sa réflexion musicale sur le style musical et dramatique et la discussion de la priorité de parole ou de son, ce chef-d'oeuvre s'avère précurseur précoce de Richard Strauss ' Capriccio ' .La nouvelle édition de la partition dans le cadre de ' OPERA - spectre de théâtre musical européen dans les éditions simples ' a apporté de nombreux changements avec lui ( livret , les indications scéniques , articulation , ornements , etc.) / Opéra

Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. C'est seulement en 1713 que Vivaldi aborde l'opéra ; certaines sources parlent de 94 productions, mais seules 50 ont été identifiées. La musique de ces opéras n'ayant pas été imprimée, contrairement aux livrets, il ne reste trace (complète ou partielle) que d'une vingtaine d'opéras. Impresario du Teatro San Angelo de Venise, Vivaldi écrira la majorité de ces opéras pour ce théâtre. Les 30 airs de ce recueil sont proposés en réduction chant-clavier, pour voix de contre-ténor, extraits des opéras : Andromeda Liberata, Ottone in villa, L'Olimpiade, Tietiberga, Tito Manlio, Il Tigrane, Bajazet, Il Giustino, Olando finto pazzo, La Verità in cimento, La Fida nonfa, Orlando Furioso. / Date parution : 2014-07-01/ Recueil / Contre Ténor

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. Written during the composer’s years as a professor at the renowned Moscow Conservatory, this volume presents a clear and thorough introduction to the study of harmony - a complete course in writing music featuring numerous examples and exercises. It functions equally well as a classroom text, an adjunct to private instruction, or as a guide to individual musicians. Out of print for several decades and exceedingly rare in its original edition, the Guide to Practical Study of Harmony holds an intrinsic historical interest. This is the unabridged republication of the classic 1900 edition and is an excellent manual which remains as useful and instructive today as it wasat the turn of the 20th century./ Répertoire / Opéra Théorique ou Didactique

Operas in three acts Version of the premiere, London 1737. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. “Charming Berenice” – the Earl of Shaftesbury attended a rehearsal of the opera on 12 May 1737 and went into raptures about this “inexpressible delight”. “Berenice” was premiered at Covent Garden Theatre in London just a few days later on 18 May 1737. “Berenice” is one of the “light” operas and offers a wealth of musical gems, the second movement of the overture having become famous as “The Minuet from Berenice”, for instance, as has Berenice’s extended aria in the third act, in which she reflects on the inconstancy of the god Amor in duet with the solo oboist. The musical imagery which Handel worked into the opera is likewise enchanting, such as the imitation of bees humming in Fabio’s “Vedi l’ape” and the sorrowful cooing of a dove in Selene’s “Tortorella che rimira”. The scholarly-critical new edition contains the musical text of the first performance together with pieces in the appendix which Handel excised or shortened in preparation for the premiere. As is customary with our editions, a preface provides a detailed introduction to the genesis of the work, the story’s historical context, the source material and reception. Furthermore, the edition includes a translation of the libretto and an exhaustive Critical Report./ Répertoire / Opéra

Crit. Ed. Fabrizio Della Seta. Par BELLINI VINCENZO. I PURITANI is the last work of Vincenzo Bellini: composed in nine months, from April 1834 to January 1835 (a gestation unusually long for that time), was performed for the first time in Paris, Théâtre Italien, 24 January 1835. The new Critical Edition is based on the autograph, on the libretto of the first performance and on four manuscript copies produced in the context of the Théâtre Italien in the first months of life of the work, three of which contain autographinterventions (these sources are now kept at the Biblioteca Comunale in Palermo, at the Museo Civico Belliniano in Catania, at the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milano and at the Staatsbibliothek zur Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin). This edition presents for the first time all the music composed by Bellini, it restores the sections deleted before or after the first performance in Paris and returns the modified sections of the Naples version. It consists of three-score volumes -introduced by a detailed reconstruction of the historical context - and of a 'Apparati' volume with a description of the Sources and the Critical Commentary to the musical text. / Opéra-opérette / Répertoire / Opéra

Facsimile of the autograph score from the National Archive of the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth. Par WAGNER RICHARD. Knowledge, pity, redemption: Richard Wagner took up these major themes in “Parsifal”, the music drama that he completed 13 months before his death and referred to as his “most conciliatory work”. Already celebrated for its compositional technique and mystical sonorities at the premiere, its world of ideas has stimulated new debates and interpretations over and over again to the present day. Wagner wrote the autograph score almost entirely in violet ink, a colour he preferred to use in the final years of his life. He meticulously planned the layout of the pages and finally gave the autograph to his wife Cosima - it always remained in the family's possession as a guarded treasure. The facsimile edition in high-quality four-colour printing reproduces the extensive score in its original size. Act and bar numbers on every page facilitate its use without diminishing the overall bibliophile appearance. In an accompanying essay (Ger/Eng), Ulrich Konrad elucidates the special features of the work and the manuscript./ Répertoire / Opéra

Acte de Ballet. Par RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE. Rameau Io RCT 45 (Vocal Score) In Rameau's operatic oeuvre, 'Io' is certainly the work shrouded in the most mystery: the acte de ballet has survived only in the form of a copy of the score and parts which was made by a collector from the generation after Rameau from the autograph that now is lost. Although the copy seems to have been used, presumably for a trial read-through, the work was apparently never regularly performed during Rameau's lifetime. And for good reason: the work breaks off abruptly at the beginning of the divertissement; neither the librettist nor a plan for a theatre location are known. Because of its incompleteness, 'Io' was long regarded as Rameau's last work, but there is much to suggest that the composition must have been written between 1740 and 1745. The introduction to this edition examines the references regarding the dating as well as various hypotheses about performance possibilities and librettists. The plot revolves around one of those typical mythological flirtations that are inevitably to be expected when Jupiter and a nymph, here Io, are involved. With the appearance of madness, La Folia, the work reaches a dramaturgical climax. However after this, the opera breaks off. In order to make the piece performable, the editors of ?Opera Omnia Rameau? propose an addition to the divertissement as well as an ending borrowed from the ballet bouffon 'Platée' in its 1745 version, which shows numerous parallels to 'Io'. Thus, these additions come as close as possible to Rameau's style of the 1740s while bringing the plot to a conclusion. - Fragmentary work completed with original music by Rameau - Based on the score of ?Opera Omnia Rameau?, Volume V/1 - Particularly suitable for academies and conservatories as few soloists are required and the few choral movements can be sung by soloists / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / Opéra

Comédie (Laxenburg 1765) Gluck Complete Works IV/4. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. The critical edition presents the music to the verse comedy “Soliman second, ou Les Trois Sultanes” by Charles-Simon Favart (1710–1792), which was performed before the Viennese courtly audience in the Schlosstheater Laxenburg by the French troupe of the Burgtheater on 18 May 1765. This is the first time that Gluck’s music to the Favartian comedy has appeared in print. A popular comedy which in particular was known for its exotic colour, “Soliman second” quickly made its mark on many European stages. Through the good offices of the court theatre director Count Durazzo, the libretto made its way to Vienna too. As “Direttore della Musica” at Vienna’s Burgtheater and an accomplished writer of French opéras-comiques, Gluck may have been commissioned to compose the vocal numbers – four solo airs and a duet – which were meant to be performed in the comedy. As far as can be established, Gluck’s involvement in incidental music is an exception in his artistic output. In addition to the detailed introduction to the history of the work, the volume contains the Critical Report providing exhaustive information on the source material, editorial technique and performance practice. The libretto for the premiere performance and illustrative extracts from the sources are reproduced in facsimile./ Répertoire / Opéra

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 - all presented 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 to that 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 for the 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 the later 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]), but can also be played by the Piano. Serse 's part, originally sung by a castrato, can be performed by a Soprano or a Countertenor. / Chant Et Piano

Opera in tre atti. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Antonio Salvi's ; Arminio is one of the best-loved operatic librettos of the Baroque period. Against the historical background of the so-called ; Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD in which the Cherusci leader Arminius as ; Liberator of Germany (Tacitus) inflicted a devastating defeat on the Romans, Handel's opera, first performed in 1737, is about the disputes between the Chatti and the Cherusci. Arminius has married the daughter of his arch-enemy Segestes. When he is imprisoned, Segestes, who has conspired with the Romans, sees his opportunity for revenge. - Urtextedition based on the ; Halle Handel Edition - Libretto in Italian with singable German translation - Comprehensive foreword (Ger/Eng) with important information on the history of the libretto as well as on the genesis and the performance history of the work. A detailed resume of the plot is also contained. - Extensive appendix with richly ornamented versions of two arias - Idiomatic piano reduction in the vocal score - Full score (BA4100) and vocal score (BA4100-90) available for sale - Performance material (BA4100-72) for hire/ Répertoire / Opéra

Dramma giocoso in two acts. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Due to numerous customer requests, Bärenreiter is successively offering vocal scores to major Mozart operas in hardback editions again. This means you now have the choice: perhaps you prefer a slightly lower-priced and lighter soft-cover edition with excellent lay-flat characteristics or you feel that sturdier hardcover editions of important repertoire works are more likely to survive the rigours of a singer's life.

Par SCIARRINO SALVATORE. Italian / Musique contemporaine / Date parution : 1905-06-23/ Répertoire / Opéra