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 and IPA, 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 very best instruction.LA BOHEME: Mi chiamano Mimi - Quando men vo - DON GIOVANNI: Batti, batti, o bel Masetto - FAUST: Ah! Je ris de me voir (The Jewel Song) - FIDELIO: O wär' ich schon mit dir vereint - GIANNI SCHICCHI: O mio babbino caro - GIULIO CESARE: Piangero la sorte mia - LE NOZZE DI FIGARO: Deh vieni, non tardar - ROMEO ET JULIETTE: Ah! Je veux vivre - DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE: Ach, ich fuhl's. / Voix Et Piano

The Long Journey, the final monologue of the opera The Golden Dragon based on the eponymous play by Roland Schimmelpfennig, has been given the air of a ballad. A young Chinese works illegally in an Asian restaurant of Anytown. Not having a health insurance, he bleeds to death after a botched dental operation. His colleagues throw his body into the river which runs through the town and carries the body to the sea. He floats back to his home country - this last journey is the theme of the monologue. / Soprano Et Piano