U.S. Opera
Home About Composers Operas
Recommendations Download music Recordings, books and videos

Opera recordings

Excerpts and arias

Books and articles

Opera scores and libretti

Opera videos

Miscellaneous resources




Please visit our sister sites:

Mousehold Words

The Atlas of Fiction

Opera scores and libretti

Vocal and orchestral scores and librettoes

usopera.com recommends:

G. Schirmer American Opera Anthology: Baritone/Bass
A collection of arias for singers from American operas published by Schirmer.

John Corigliano

Begears' Aria (Piano-vocal score)

G. Schirmer 1993

John Corigliano

Figaro's Aria (Piano-vocal score)

G. Schirmer 1993

John Corigliano

"They are always with me" (Piano-vocal score)

G. Schirmer 1993

George W. Chadwick

Judith (piano-vocal score)

Da Capo 1972

William Grant Still

"Give me no body without your soul" from Blue Steel (for soprano)

"Little black slave child" from Troubled Island (for mezzo)

"'Tis sunset in the garden" from Troubled Island (for soprano)

"In ages past" from A Bayou Legend (for soprano)

"Now they will be coming to the tree" from A Bayou Legend (for mezzo)

"Golden days" from Costaso (for soprano)

"This strange awakening" from Mota (for soprano)

"Who can tell what fate?" from Mota (for mezzo)

"I have two loves" from Minette Fontaine (for soprano)

"Once a little child" from Highway 1, U.S.A. (for mezzo)

in

Arias, Duets and Scenes from the Operas, Volume 1: Arias for Sorpano and Mezzo Soprano (compiled and edited by Beverly Soll)

William Grant Still Music 1998

William Grant Still

"See the trees" from Blue Steel (for baritone)

"Why do you laugh, Vuval?" from Troubled Island (for baritone)

"I dream a world" from Troubled Island (for bass)

"Drums in the court" from Troubled Island (for baritone)

"Children of the world" from A Bayou Legend (for tenor)

"More lovely than my imagining" from A Bayou Legend (for tenor)

"A wand'ring beggar came" from Costaso (for tenor)

"Must I die for my boldness?" from Mota (for tenor)

"Hear me, hear my plea!" from The Pillar (for tenor)

"A dream wasted" from Highway 1, U.S.A. (for baritone)

"What does he know of dreams?" from Highway 1, U.S.A. (for tenor)

in

Arias, Duets and Scenes from the Operas, Volume 2: Arias for Tenor, Baritone and Bass (compiled and edited by Beverly Soll)

William Grant Still Music 1998

William Grant Still

"The drums weave the spell of death" from Blue Steel (for soprano, contralto, baritone, and chorus)

"To polish and shine" from Troubled Island (For soprano, mezzo, and two contraltos)

"Because faint whisperings of practices" from A Bayou Legend (for bass, two tenors and one baritone)

"Calm as the waters of the bayou" from A Bayou Legend (for soprano and tenor, with chorus)

"Ave Maria" from Costaso (for tenor and baritone)

"I knew why you were coming" from Minette Fontaine (for soprano, contralto, and chorus)

"Listen, Mary, trust me!" from Highway 1, U.S.A. (For soprano and baritone)

in

Arias, Duets and Scenes from the Operas, Volume 3: Duets and Scenes (compiled and edited by Beverly Soll)

William Grant Still Music 1998

Mark Adamo

"Peace: Yes! Of Course..." (for mezzo-soprano and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

Nico's Credo (for tenor and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

"You're not my own" (for soprano and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

"Too late in the day, sir " (for bass-baritone and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

"I am not my own" (for soprano and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

"War: Sure! I Know..." (for mezzo-soprano and piano)

G. Schirmer 2006

Mark Adamo

Little Women (Piano-vocal score)

G. Schirmer 2001

Mark Adamo

Little Women (libretto)

G. Schirmer 2001

Mark Adamo

"Have Peace, Jo," (Piano reduction)

Hal Leonard 2003

Mark Adamo

"Kennst du das Land" (Piano reduction)

Hal Leonard 2003

Gian Carlo Menotti

Amahl and the Night Visitors (Piano-vocal score)

Hal Leonard 1986

Gian Carlo Menotti

Amahl and the Night Visitors (Full score)

G. Schirmer 1986

Thea Musgrave: "Al norte" ("To the North!") from Simón Bolívar

Douglas Moore: "Always Through The Changing" from The Ballad of Baby Doe

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Be good to her" from The Saint of Bleecker Street

Marc Blitzstein: Birdie's Aria from Regina

Gian Carlo Menotti: Bride's Song from The Labyrinth

William Bolcom: "But you do not know this man" from A View from the Bridge

Kirke Mechem: "Dear Husband: Come this fall" from John Brown

Douglas Moore: "Dearest Mama" from The Ballad of Baby Doe

Samuel Barber: "Do not utter a word" from Vanessa

Daniel Catán: "Escúchame" from Florencia in el Amazonas

Kirke Mechem: "Fair Robin I love" from Tartuffe

Kirke Mechem: "Father, I beg you" from Tartuffe

Samuel Barber: "Give me some music" from Antony and Cleopatra

Stephen Sondheim: "Green finch and linnet bird" from Sweeney Todd

Mark Adamo: "Have peace, Jo" from Little Women

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Hello! Oh, Margaret, it's you" from The Telephone

Bernard Hermann: "I have been wandering through the green woods" from Wuthering Heights

Bernard Hermann: "I have dreamt" from Wuthering Heights

Andre Previn: "I want magic!" from A Streetcar Named Desire

Mark Adamo: "Joy beyond measure, Mother!" from Little Women

William Schuman: "Kiss Me Not Goodbye" from The Mighty Casey

Douglas Moore: Lola's Aria from Gallantry

Tan Dun: "Loved One, Beloved" from Tea

Gian Carlo Menotti: Monica's Waltz from The Medium

Marc Blitzstein: "Music, music, music" from Regina

Gian Carlo Menotti: "My sleeping beauty" from The Hero

John Harbison: "Now, my fairest friend" from Winter's Tale

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Oh, Sweet Jesus" from The Saint of Bleecker Street

Bernard Hermann: "Open the window" from Wuthering Heights

William Schuman: Prayer from The Mighty Casey

Andre Previn: Sea Air from A Streetcar Named Desire

Douglas Moore: "Silver Aria" from The Ballad of Baby Doe

Kurt Weill: "Somehow I never could believe" from Street Scene

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Steal me, sweet thief" from The Old Maid and the Thief

Gian Carlo Menotti: "The Black Swan" from The Medium

Gian Carlo Menotti: "The Foreign Woman's Aria" from The Consul

John Corigliano: "They are always with me" from The Ghosts of Versailles

Gian Carlo Menotti: "To this we've come" from The Consul

Kurt Weill: "What good would the moon be?" from Street Scene

Marc Blitzstein: "What will it be for me?" from Regina

John Harbison: "Where is the old warm world?" from The Great Gatsby

Samuel Barber: "Who is there to love me?" from A Hand of Bridge

Samuel Barber: "Why must the greatest sorrows come" from Vanessa

Douglas Moore: Willow Song from The Ballad of Baby Doe

in

G. Schirmer American Opera Anthology: Soprano

G. Schirmer 2004

Marc Blitzstein: Addie's Blues from Regina

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Afraid, am I afraid?" from The Medium

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Ah, Michele, don't you know" from The Saint of Bleecker Street

Gian Carlo Menotti: "All that gold!" from Amahl and the Night Visitors

Douglas Moore: "Augusta! How can you turn away?" from The Ballad of Baby Doe

Marc Blitzstein: " Away!... The Best Thing of All" from Regina

Kirke Mechem: "Blow ye the trumpet" from John Brown

Anthony Davis: "Come with me, child" from X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Mark Adamo: "Couldn't I unbake the breads" from Little Women

Marc Blitzstein: Dry Bones from Regina

John Harbison: "Five years ago I knew them both" from The Great Gatsby

Kirke Mechem: "Hold on a moment, dear" from Tartuffe

Bernard Herrmann: "How I love them" from Wuthering Heights

Bernard Herrmann: "I have dreamt" from Wuthering Heights

Virgil Thomson: "I say never again" from The Mother Of Us All

William Schuman: "Kiss Me Not Goodbye" from The Mighty Casey

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Look at all those things" from The Hero

Gian Carlo Menotti: Lullaby from The Consul

Samuel Barber: "Must the winter come so soon?" from Vanessa

Kurt Weill: "Oh, don't you see that lonesome dove" from Down in the Valley

Gian Carlo Menotti: " Oh, those faces!" from The Consul

Mark Adamo: "Perfect as we are" from Little Women

William Schuman: Prayer from The Mighty Casey

John Corigliano: Samira's Aria from The Ghosts of Versailles

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Shall we ever see the end of all this!" from The Consul

Peter Lieberson: "So many years have passed" from Ashoka's Dream

Kurt Weill: "Stay Well" from Lost in the Stars

Tan Dun: "Such a moment" from Marco Polo

Gian Carlo Menotti: "The Empty-handed Traveler" from The Consul

Mark Adamo: "Things change, Jo" from Little Women

Kurt Weill: "Trouble Man" from Lost in the Stars

John Harbison: "Waiting" from The Great Gatsby

Mark Blitzstein: Waltz ("Do you wish we had wed") from Regina

Virgil Thomson: "We cannot retrace our steps" from The Mother of Us All

Douglas Moore: "We've always known each other" from The Wings of the Dove

Virgil Thomson: "What is man" from The Mother of Us All

Virgil Thomson: "Will they remember that it is true" from The Mother of Us All

Bright Sheng: "Yes! I am she!" from Madame Mao

in

G. Schirmer American Opera Anthology: Mezzo-Soprano

G. Schirmer 2004

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Ah, do not laugh" from Goya

Kurt Weill: "And where is the one who will mourn me" from Down in the Valley

John Corigliano: Aria of the Worm from The Ghosts of Versailles

Lee Hoiby: "Be not afeard" from The Tempest

Kirke Mechem: "Believe in love" from John Brown

Daniel Catán: "Del destino" from Florencia en el Amazonas

John Harbison: "Everyone was here but the one who matters" from The Great Gatsby

Daniel Catán: Giovanni's Aria from La Hija de Rappacini

William Bolcom: "Gold can kill you" from McTeague

John Harbison: "Had no choice, had to invent myself" from The Great Gatsby

Gian Carlo Menotti: "I know that you all hate me" from The Saint of Bleecker Street

Robert Kurka: "I never felt so good before" from The Good Soldier Schweik

Andre Previn: "I'm not a boy" from A Streetcar Named Desire

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Immoral? Can sleep be immoral?" from The Hero

Douglas Moore: "In ancient times there was a god" from The Wings of the Dove

Stephen Sondheim: "Ladies in their sensitivities" from Sweeney Todd

Bright Sheng: "Light of my soul" from The Song of Manjun

Kurt Weill: "Lonely House" from Street Scene

William Bolcom: New York Lights from A View from the Bridge

Kirke Mechem: "No more, false heart" from Tartuffe

Bernard Herrmann: "Now art thou dear" from Wuthering Heights

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Oh, yes, I love her" from Goya

Samuel Barber: "On the path to the lake" from Vanessa

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Out of my dreams" from Goya

Samuel Barber: "Outside this house" from Vanessa

Anthony Davis: "Shoot the shot" from X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Samuel Barber: "The breaking of so great a thing" from Antony and Cleopatra

Stephen Sondheim: The Contest from Sweeney Todd

Anthony Davis: "The moonlight died" from Amistad

Kurt Weill: The Wild Justice from Lost in the Stars

Gian Carlo Menotti: "This is my box" from Amahl and the Night Visitors

Robert Kurka: "Who will go to the war when it comes" from The Good Soldier Schweik

in

G. Schirmer American Opera Anthology: Tenor

G. Schirmer 2004

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Ah, poor Michele" from The Saint of Bleecker Street

Samuel Barber: "And this will be my epitaph" from A Hand of Bridge

Virgil Thomson: "Angel More" from The Mother of Us All

Robert Kurka: "Dear Madame" from The Good Soldier Schweik

Stephen Sondheim: Epiphany from Sweeney Todd

Kirke Mechem: "Every day at church" from Tartuffe

John Corigliano: "Figaro was supposed to return the necklace" from The Ghosts of Versailles

Samuel Barber: "For ev'ry love there is a last farewell" from Vanessa

Douglas Moore: "Good people of Leadville" from The Ballad of Baby Doe

Marc Blitzstein: "Greedy Girl" from Regina

Samuel Barber: "Hark! the land bids me" from Antony and Cleopatra

Marc Blitzstein: Horace's Aria from Regina

John Harbison: "I remember long ago" from The Great Gatsby

William Schuman: "In 1839" from The Mighty Casey

William Bolcom: "Jehosophat!" from McTeague

Mark Adamo: "Kennst du das Land" ("Do you know the land") from Little Women

Kurt Weill: "Let things be like they always was" from Street Scene

Bernard Herrmann: "Man that is born of a woman" from Wuthering Heights

Kurt Weill: "O Tixo, Tixo, help me!" from Lost in the Stars

Louis Gruenberg: "Oh, Lawd Jesus, heah my prayer" from The Emperor Jones

Gian Carlo Menotti: "Oh, woman, you may keep the gold" from Amahl and the Night Visitors

Jerome Kern: "Ol' Man River" from Show Boat

Virgil Thomson: "Once in a while" from Four Saints in Three Acts

Lee Hoiby: "Our revels now are ended" from The Tempest

Richard Rodgers: Soliloquy from Carousel

William Schuman: The Catcher's Song from The Mighty Casey

Robert Kurka: The Doctor's Aria from The Good Soldier Schweik

William Schuman: The Manager's Song from The Mighty Casey

Gian Carlo Menotti: The Police Agent's Aria from The Consul

Kirke Mechem: "The Songs of the Slave" from John Brown

William Schuman: The Umpire's Song from The Mighty Casey

Mark Adamo: "There was a knight" from Little Women

John Corigliano: "They wish they could kill me" from The Ghosts of Versailles

Kurt Weill: "Thousands of Miles" from Lost in the Stars

Douglas Moore: "Turn tail and run then" from The Ballad of Baby Doe

Tan Dun: "Venus of the East" from Tea

Douglas Moore: "Warm as the autumn light" from The Ballad of Baby Doe

Virgil Thomson: "What what is it" from The Mother of Us All

Gian Carlo Menotti: "&When the air sings of summerquot; (Bob's Aria) from The Old Maid and the Thief

Samuel Barber: "You rascal you! I never knew you had a soul" from Vanessa

in

G. Schirmer American Opera Anthology: Baritone/Bass

G. Schirmer 2004

Carlisle Floyd: "Ain't it a pretty night" from Susannah

Dominick Argento: Allegra's Aria from Colonel Jonathan the Saint

Dominick Argento: "I see in you a looking glass" from Miss Havisham's Fire

Carlisle Floyd: "I should have ended it long ago " from Willie Stark

Carlisle Floyd: Lady with a Hand Mirror Aria from Postcard from Morocco

Aaron Copland: Laurie's Song from The Tender Land

John Adams: Magnificat from El Nino

Leonard Bernstein : "Mommy, are you here " from A Quiet Place

Igor Stravinsky: "No word from Tom"...Cabaletta from The Rake's Progress

Aaron Copland: Queenie's Song from The Second Hurricane

Carlisle Floyd: "Rented rooms" from Cold Sassy Tree

Dominick Argento: "Sabrina's Aria" from Colonel Jonathan the Saint

Carlisle Floyd: Sadie's Lament from Slow Dusk

Carlisle Floyd: "Someday I'm sure to marry you" from The Sojourner and Mollie Sinclair

Aaron Copland: "The sun is coming up" from The Tender Land

Carlisle Floyd: "The trees on the mountain" from Susannah

Dominick Argento: The Widow's Aria from The Boor

John Adams: "This is prophetic!" from Nixon in China

Dominick Argento: "Virginia's Aria" from The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe

in

Boosey & Hawkes American Arias: Soprano

Boosey and Hawkes 2004

Dominick Argento: A Foreign Singer in a Waiting Station from Postcard from Morocco

Leonard Bernstein: A Simple Song from Mass

Igor Stravinsky: Baba's Aria and Monologue from The Rake's Progress

Dominick Argento: Bellino's Aria from Casanova's Homecoming

John Adams: Consuelo's Dream from I Was Looking At The Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky

Dominick Argento: Estella's Aria from Miss Havisham's Fire

John Adams: La anunciacion from El Nino

John Adams: Leila's Song: "Alone (Again or at Last)" from I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky

Aaron Copland: Ma's Song from The Tender Land

Jack Beeson: Mother Rainey's Aria from The Sweet Bye and Bye

John Adams: Mrs. Klinghoffer's Aria from The Death of Klinghoffer

Dominick Argento: Nazimova's Aria from The Dream of Valentino

Dominick Argento: Rose's Air from The Shoemaker's Holiday

Richard Cumming: "Shaun, do not go" from The Picnic

Ned Rorem: The Norway Aria from Bertha

Leonard Bernstein: "There is a garden" from Trouble in Tahiti

Dominick Argento: Tina's Aria from The Aspern Papers

Leonard Bernstein: "What a movie!" from Trouble in Tahiti

in

Boosey & Hawkes American Arias: Mezzo-Soprano

Boosey and Hawkes 2004

Steven Mackey: Ballad of Ravenshead from Ravenshead

Dominick Argento: Gondolier's Song from Casanova's Homecoming

Dominick Argento: "Have mercy on my life" from The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe

Igor Stravinsky: "Here I stand" from The Rake's Progress

Dominick Argento: Lute Song from The Shoemaker's Holiday

Dominick Argento: Man with a Paint Box Aria from Postcard from Morocco

Aaron Copland: Martin's Song from The Tender Land

Dominick Argento: "Midnight, bells striking midnight" from The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe

Jacob Druckman: "O moon whose bees are stars" from Medea

Ned Rorem: Samuel's Aria from Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters

Douglas Moore: Scratch's Aria from The Devil and Daniel Webster

Marvin David Levy: "The damned do not cry" from Mourning Becomes Electra

Dominick Argento: Valentino's Aria from The Dream of Valentino

Dominick Argento: "Will ye but listen?" from Christopher Sly

in

Boosey & Hawkes American Arias: Tenor

Boosey and Hawkes 2004

Leonard Bernstein: A Simple Song from Mass

Dominick Argento: Casanova's Final Air from Casanova's Homecoming

John Adams: Chou En Lai's Epilogue from Nixon in China

John Adams: Dawn Air from El Nino

John Adams: Dewain's Song of Liberation and Surprise from I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky

Carlisle Floyd: George's Aria from Of Mice and Men

Carlisle Floyd: "Hear me, O Lord" from Susannah

Ned Rorem: "I cannot still the echo" from The Robbers

Douglas Moore: "I've got a ram, Goliath" from The Devil and Daniel Webster

Carlisle Floyd: "I've known I've loved you" from Cold Sassy Tree

Dominick Argento: Metatron's Sermon from The Masque of Angels

John Adams: News Aria from Nixon in China

Igor Stravinsky: Nick Shadow's Aria from The Rake's Progress

Jack Beeson: Prescription for Living from Dr. Heidegger's Fountain of Youth

Dominick Argento: Ralph's Letter-Ballad from The Shoemaker's Holiday

Carlisle Floyd: Rucker's Sermon from Cold Sassy Tree

John Adams: "Shake the heavens" from El Nino

Dominick Argento: Simon's Aria from The Shoemaker's Holiday

Carlisle Floyd: "Single bed blanket" from Willie Stark

Carlisle Floyd: "Sleep, conscience, sleep" from The Passion of Jonathan Wade

Dominick Argento: Sly's Aria from Christopher Sly

Dominick Argento: The Boor's Aria from The Boor

Jack Beeson: The Gambler's Song from Hello Out There

Dominick Argento: The Lecturer from A Water Bird Talk

Leonard Bernstein: "There's a law" from Trouble in Tahiti

Carlisle Floyd: "We all come out of the earth" from Willie Stark

in

Boosey & Hawkes American Arias: Bass

Boosey and Hawkes 2004

Laurie's Song from The Tender Land

Martin's Song from The Tender Land

"The sun is coming up" from The Tender Land

Queenie's Song from The Second Hurricane

in

Aaron Copland Art Songs and Arias: High Voice

Boosey and Hawkes 2007

Ma's Song from The Tender Land

Fat's Song from The Second Hurricane

Gyp's Song from The Second Hurricane

in

Aaron Copland Art Songs and Arias: Medium/Low Voice

Boosey and Hawkes 2007

Charles Wakefield Cadman

A Witch of Salem (Piano-vocal score)

Oliver Ditson Company, Boston 1926

Lukas Foss

Introductions and Good-Byes (piano-vocal score)

Carl Fischer 1961

Douglas Moore

The Greenfield Christmas Tree (piano-vocal score)

G. Schirmer 1963

Lukas Foss

Introductions and Good-Byes

Carl Fischer 1961