This landmark publication collects arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers published by Boosey & Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations. CONTENTS: John Adams: THE DEATH OF KLINGHOFFER: I must have been hysterical - DOCTOR ATOMIC: Am I in your light? - Past fierce and tossing skies - EL NI-O: La anunciación - Dominick Argento: THE ASPERN PAPERS: On the stroke of midnight! - CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Bellino's Aria - Madame d'Urfé's Aria - THE DREAM OF VALENTINO: Nazimova's Aria - Was it truly destiny - MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: Estella's Aria - A POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: A Foreign Singer's Aria - Leonard Bernstein: MASS: Thank You - TROUBLE IN TAHITI: There is a garden - What a movie! - Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: Doctor Jessop's midwife - What would Missus Herring say? - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Lysander, Help me Lysander - THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Give him this orchid - Is it all? - She sleeps as a rose upon the night - Aaron Copland: THE TENDER LAND: Ma's Song - Carlisle Floyd: WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Take off that frown - John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: Thus when a good housewife sees a rat...How cruel are the traytors - Henry Purcell, realized by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst: DIDO AND AENEAS: Ah, Belinda, I am prest with torment - When I am laid in earth - Ned Rorem: MISS JULIE: Wind around me like Satan's snake - Richard Strauss: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Sein wir wieder gut - DER ROSENKAVALIER: Wie Du warst! - Igor Stravinsky: MAVRA: The Mother's Aria - OEDIPUS REX: Nonn' erusbeskite, reges - THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: As I was saying...Scorned! Abused! - Sold! Annoyed!