French Operatic Arias - Soprano (Voice & Piano)
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
Gluck French Operatic Arias - Soprano (Voice & Piano)
This edition contains French arias for soprano from operas composed by the opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck for the Paris Opera:
Iphigénie en Aulide (1774), Orphée et Euridice (1774), L’arbre enchanté (1775), Cythère assiégée (1775), Armide (1777), Écho et Narcisse (1779).
The edition includes an informative text section containing a Foreword (Fr/Eng), a brief account of the dramatic situation as well as a literal English translation of every aria.
About the series:
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Airs d’opéra français / French Operatic Arias.
In collaboration with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV), all arias from Christoph Willibald Gluck’s French operas will be published for the first time in a collection of four volumes, ordered by voice type.
With their wide variety of arias and informative texts, these volumes constitute a valuable resource of works by one of the preeminent opera composers of the 18th century. They are suitable for opera singers and voice students and can be used in lessons, auditions and recitals.
Contents
- Une Grecque: "Hereux guerriers, volez à la victoire" from Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- L'Amour: "Si les doux accords de ta lyre" from Orphée et Eurydice (1774) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- L'Amour: "Soumis au silence" from Orphée et Eurydice (1774) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Claudine: "Si l'amour était un crime" from L’Arbre enchanté (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Lucette: "Pour me plaire" from L’Arbre enchanté (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Claudine: "Que l'objet qui m'engage" from L’Arbre enchanté (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Daphné: "Ah! quel bonheur d'aimer" from Cythère assiégée (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Cherite: "Le barbare" from Cythère assiégée (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Daphné: "Dieu puissant! embrase de ta flamme" from Cythère assiégée (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Daphné: "Quelle audace, soldars" from Cythère assiégée (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Chloé: "Mon coeur se plaît au bruit des armes" from Cythère assiégée (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Daphné "Nymphes, chantez victoire" from Cythère assiégée (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Chloé: "L'aimable paix règne en ces asiles" from Cythère assiégée (1775) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Une Bergrère: "On s'étonnerait moins que la saison nouvelle" from Armide (1777) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- L'Anour: "Rien dans la nature" from Écho et Narcisse (1779) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- L'Amour "Amusez, sachez plaire" from Écho et Narcisse (1779) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Echo: "Peut-être d'un injuste effroi" from Écho et Narcisse (1779) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
- Eglé: "Vous différez nos jeux" from Écho et Narcisse (1779) [Gluck, Christoph Willibald]
