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: A FLOWERING TREE: Her arms have the beauty - NIXON IN CHINA: Platonic men - Dominick Argento: CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: Gondolier's Song - THE DREAM OF VALENTINO: Now I know - Valentino's Aria - POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO: Once when I was a young man - Leonard Bernstein: CANDIDE: Bon Voyage - Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: The Mayor's Aria - Albert the Good! - O go, Go! Go away! - BILLY BUDD: I accept their verdict - Gloriana: First Lute Song - Second Lute Song - A Midsummer Night's Dream: Asleep my Love? - Peter Grimes: They listen to money - Now the Great Bear and Pleiades - In dreams I've built myself - THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Rome is now ruled - Tarquinius does not dare - THE TURN OF THE SCREW: It is a curious story - Miles! - Aaron Copland: THE TENDER LAND: Martin's Song - Carlisle Floyd: COLD SASSY TREE: So there you were - Sometimes th' pain of missin' him - OF MICE AND MEN: Lennie's Aria (Oh, I feel cold inside) - WUTHERING HEIGHTS: Then marry me, Cathy - John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: The Beggar's Opera: O cruel, cruel case! - Sergei Prokofiev: L'Amour des Trois Oranges: Il est drôle, le Prince! - Sergei Rachmaninoff: Aleko: Young Gypsy's Romance - Ned Rorem: Our Town: The Stage Manager's Aria (We're all coming up here) - Richard Strauss: Arabella: Ich hab's geschworen - ARIADNE AUX NAXOS: Im Gegenteil - CAPRICCIO: Das Sonett (Kein Andres, das mir so im Herzen loht) - DER ROSENKAVALIER: Di rigori armato il seno - Igor Stravinsky: MAVRA: Hussar's Aria - THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: Here I stand - Love, too frequently betrayed - Vary the song - Sellem's Auction Scene - I have waited - Mark-Anthony Turnage: ANNA NICOLE: Valium, prozac