This landmark series collects compelling useful singer-friendly arias from a distinctly American opera tradition. Each volume includes information about every opera and an aria plot note. A majority of the music in the fourvolumes has never before been available outside of the opera vocal scores and some arias in the series have never been in print at all before now. Most arias are appropriate for college-level singers. Composers such as SamuelBarber William Bolcom Douglas Moore Virgil Thomson and Gian Carlo Menotti are well represented. Additionally arias are included from important works such as Regina A Streetcar Named Desire The Ghosts of Versailles TheGreat Gatsby Little Women and many others. Stephen Sondheim graciously agreed to adapt new aria editions of two pieces from Sweeney Todd for the series: ?The Contest? in the Tenor volume and?Epiphany? in the Baritone/Bass edition.A diverse selection of Arias from Operas by American composers for Soprano and Piano. Includes works by Gian Carlo Menotti Samuel Barber Kirke Mecham and Thomas Pastieri.

Performed by Ivanka Ninova mezzo-soprano Accompaniment: Orchestra of the Sofia National Opera Conductor: Nayden Todorov Here's a collection of eternal classics from the great Gioachino Rossini's pen-including arias from such great operas as Il Barbiere di Siviglia and L'Italiana in Algeri. Mezzo great Ivanka Ninova performs these complete editions for your reference then she steps aside and you take your place alongside maestro Todorov and the orchestra of the world-famous Sofia National Opera. Brava! Includes an expansive newly engraved vocal score printed on high-quality ivory paper; and a CD G graphics-enabled compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) indigital stereo followed by digital stereo orchestral accompaniments to each piece minus the soloist.