Many students only need a few opera arias in their vocal study. Selected Opera Arias extracts 10 arias useful to the typical voice student from the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology with plot notes translations andIPA and combines them with the diction lessons recorded by top coaches in New York and accompaniments recorded by coaches on staff at Lyric Opera of Chicago. The voice student gets a value priced complete package for the verybest instruction.

G. Schirmer Opera Anthology-Coloratura Arias For Soprano and piano compiled and edited by Robert L. Larsen and Martha Gerhart.

This series now has a new ?Part II? for each voice type at the same level as the original volumes. This is preparatory material for The First Book of Solos series with modest ranges and all songs in English including very easy art songs folksong arrangements and vintage popular songs. The song selection is completely different for each voice type with 18-20 songs per volume.

(Includes 2 CDs)-This is among the most widely used teaching repertoire for singers in the U.S. Over 30 songs are featured in each book including American and British art songs folk song arrangements sacred songs and a sampling of beginningsongs in German Italian Spanish and French. There is a completely different song selection for each voice type. This book includes access to online audio.

A Master Class with Evelyn Lear-This unique package presents a recorded master class with Metropolitan Opera star Evelyn Lear coaching young sopranos in 9 favorite arias. The book includes interpretive essays translations for study and the standardVocal/Piano versions of the arias with extensive coaching comments in the score. Besides the masterclass with Miss Lear the CD includes a Piano accompaniment for practice. Arias are from La bohème Don Giovanni Fidelio Lenozze di Figaro Roméo et Juliette Samson and Die Zauberflöte.

Fifteen specially selected Arias for performance by Coloratura Soprano. Includes the music of Donizetti Bellini Mozart and Gounod.

Contents : Verdi: Rittorna vincitor! (Aida) - Oh patria mia (Aida) - Tu che le vanita (Don Carlo) - Ernani, involami (Ernani) - Madre, pietosa Vergine (La Forza del Destino) - Pace, pace Mio Dio (La Forza del Destino) - Salce, Salce and Ave Maria (Otello) - Come in quest' ora bruna (Simon Boccanegra) - Tacea la Notte placida (Il Trovatore) - D'amor sull'ali rosee (Il Trovatore) - Gluck: Divinites du Styx (Alceste) - Smetana: Marenka's Aria (The Bartered Bride) - Puccini: Mi chiamano Mimì (La Bohème) - In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaut) - Bizet: Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante (Carmen) - Massenet: Pleurez! pleurez, mes yeux! (Le Cid) - Il est doux, il est bon (Herodiade) - Obeissons quand leur voix appelle (Manon) - Offenbach: Elle a fui, la tourterelle (Les Contes D'Hoffmann) - Mozart: Come scoglio (Così fan tutte) - Non mi dir (Don Giovanni) - Deh vieni, non tardar (Le Nozze di Figaro) - Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro (Le Nozze di Figaro) - Ach, ich fühl's (Die Zauberflöte) - Tchaikovsky: Tatiana's Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin) - Gounod: The King of Thule and the Jewel Song (Faust) - Beethoven: Abscheulicher! wo eilst du hin? (Fidelio) - J. Strauss: Klange der Heimat (Die Fledermaus) - Mein Herr Marquis (Adele's Laughing Song) (Die Fledermaus) - Wagner: Traft ihr das Schiff? (Der Fliegender Hollander) - Einsam in truben Tagen (Lohengrin) - Euch Luften (Lohengrin) - Dich, theure Halle (Tannhäuser) - Allmacht'ge Jungfrau (Tannhäuser) - Mild und leise (Tristan und Isolde) - Der Manner Sippe (Die Walkure) - C.M. von Weber: Und ob die Wolke (Der Freischütz) - Wie nahte mir der Schlummer (Der Freischütz) - Ozean! du Ungeheuer (Oberon) - Meyerbeer: Parmi les pleurs (Les Huguenots) - Leoncavallo: Stridono lassu (Pagliacci) - Monsigny: Il regardait mon bouquet (Le Roi et le Fermier).