Opera Choruses Mixed Choir BA

This album for mixed choir and piano contains a selection of richly varied choruses from Italian, French, German, English and Russian operas from the 17th to 19th centuries, illuminating the great diversity of the genre.

- Foreword (Ger/Eng) which places the choruses in their dramatic context and includes suggestions for study and interpretation

- Notes on pronounciation of the Russian song text

- In a large format (23 x 30 cm)

Vieni Imeneo - Lasciate i monti, lasciate i fonti from L'Orfeo [Monteverdi, Claudio]; Smiling Venus, queen of love from Acis and Galatea HWV 49b [Handel, George Frideric]; Regna a noi con lieta sorte from Alceste (Vienna version 1767) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]; Placido il mar, andiamo from Idomeneo KV 366 [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]; Lasst Friede in die Hallen des Frstensitzes ziehn from Fierabras D 796 [Schubert, Franz]; Guerra, guerra! from Norma [Bellini, Vincenzo]; L'aube qui blanchit dj les coteaux
from Samson et Dalila [Saint-Sans, Camille]; Les voici, voici la quadrille! from Carmen [Bizet, Georges]; Bolijat moi skory noen'ki from Eugene Onegin [Tschaikowsky, Peter]