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Introduction -- Section I. Soprano. "A lucky child," At the Statue of Venus, Jake Heggie -- "Accidents can be an unhappy woman's best friend," Dolores Claiborne, Tobias Picker -- "After you hear me out" ("Old Alyce"), Glory Denied, Tom Cipullo -- "Ah! Fuggi il traditor!" Don Giovanni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- "Amour, ranime mon courage," Roméo et Juliette, Charles Gounod -- "Bea's mirror aria," Three Decembers, Jake Heggie -- "Beyond all price," The Scarlet Letter, Lori Laitman -- "Come back," If I Were You, Jake Heggie -- "Down you go" (The controllers aria), Flight, Jonathan Dove -- "Dis-moi que je suis belle," Thaïs, Jules Massenet -- "Du gai soleil," Werther, Jules Massenet -- "Fiakermilli," Arabella, Richard Strauss -- "Grossmächtige Prinzessin," Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss -- "I am not my own," Lysistrata, Mark Adamo -- "I see a woman," Lili Elbe, Tobias Picker -- "I'm gonna love you 'til the day I die," It's a Wonderful Life, Jake Heggie -- "Je suis encore," Manon, Jules Massenet -- "Just once," The Three Feathers, Lori Laitman -- "L'amour est une vertu rare," Thaïs, Jules Massenet -- The letter aria, Emmeline, Tobias Picker -- "My darling Jim," Glory Denied, Tom Cipullo -- "Non Disperar," Giulio Caesare in Egitto, George Frideric Handel -- "Se il padre perdei," Idomeneo, Re di Creta, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- "This is the face of a woman who lied," Brief Encounter, André Previn -- "Un bel di vedremo," Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini -- "Wo bin Ich?" Hansel und Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck -- "You're not my own" (Lysia's cabaletta), Lysistrata, Mark Adamo -- Section II. Mezzo-soprano. "Afraid? Am I afraid?" The Medium, Gian Carlo Menotti -- "Am I dreaming?" Thérèse Raquin, Tobias Picker -- Diving aria, An American Tragedy, Tobias Picker -- "The furnace of the world," If I Were You, Jake Heggie -- "Geliebter, komm," Tannhäuser, Richard Wagner -- "Höre mit Sinn," Die Götterdämmerung, Richard Wagner -- "I am a mother, too," Dead Man Walking, Jake Heggie -- "I want to matter," Great Scott, Jake Heggie -- "Ice cube aria," If I Were You, Jake Heggie -- "Je suis gris," Chérubin, Jules Massenet -- "My father left me," Thérèse Raquin, Tobias Picker -- "Non ho colpa," Idomeneo, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- "Peace, yes, of course," Lysistrata, Mark Adamo -- "Relevez-vous ma fille," Dialogues des Carmélites, Francis Poulenc -- "All'aflitto è dolce il pianto," Roberto Devereux, Gaetano Donizetti -- "Romance," The Damnation of Faust, Hector Berlioz -- "Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio," I Capuleti e I Montecchi, Vincenzo Bellini -- "Sein wir wieder gut," Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss -- "Oh, it's joy, isn't it?" Elmer Gantry, Robert Aldridge -- "The empty handed traveler," The Consul, Gian Carlo Menotti -- "The Lord has spared this child," Emmeline, Tobias Picker -- "The moment a bird takes flight," Amelia, Daron Hagen -- "This journey," Dead Man Walking, Jake Heggie -- "Who will walk with me?" Dead Man Walking, Jake Heggie -- Section III. Tenor. "Addio fiorito asil," Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini -- Ahab's "symphony" aria, Moby Dick, Jake Heggie -- "Asile héréditaire/O muto," Guillaume Tell, Gioachino Rossini -- "Coeur sans amour," Cendrillon, Jules Massenet -- "Dio! Mi potevi scagliar," Otello, Giuseppe Verdi -- "Fra poco a me ricovero," Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti -- George Bailey's soliloquy, It's a Wonderful Life, Jake Heggie -- "Hai ben ragione," Il Tabarro, Giacomo Puccini -- "Human madness," or "The coffin scene," Moby Dick, Jake Heggie -- "Ich baue ganz auf deine Stärke," Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- "Is belief a gift?" Elmer Gantry, Robert Aldridge -- "Judge Danforth's entrance," The Crucible, Robert Ward -- "Lullaby," Amelia, Daron Hagen -- "Mit Gewitter und Sturm," Der Fliegende Hollander, Richard Wagner -- "My dearest friends," Phoenix, Tarik O'Regan -- "Nico's credo," Lysistrata, Mark Adamo -- "Nothing but dreams" (David's aria), If I Were You, Jake Heggie -- "O te, O cara," I Puritani, Vincenzo Bellini -- Serenade (Overhead the moon is beaming), The Student Prince, Sigmund Romberg -- Tanzmeister's aria (The dancemaster), Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss -- "To a lost child," Uncovered, Lori Laitman -- "Unis dès la plus tendre enfance," Iphigénie en Tauride, Christoph Willibald Gluck -- "Waft her, Angels," Jephtha, George Frideric Handel -- "Why risk everything for this?" Intelligence, Jake Heggie -- "You can see the farm from here," Emmeline, Tobias Picker -- Section IV. Baritone and bass. "A quoi bon l'economie!" Manon, Jules Massenet -- Car aria, An American Tragedy, Tobias Picker -- "Come, master," The Rake's Progress, Igor Stravinsky -- "The epiphany aria," Elmer Gantry, Robert Aldridge -- "Everything's going to be fine," Flight, Jonathan Dove -- "When you hear the truth, do you know it?" Elmer Gantry, Robert Aldridge -- "For every love there is a last farewell," Vanessa, Samuel Barber -- "I burn, I freeze," The Rake's Progress, Igor Stravinsky -- "I got it figured out," If I Were You, Jake Heggie -- "I wish I could sleep," A Quiet Place, Leonard Bernstein -- "If she be innocent," The Crucible, Robert Ward -- "Je t'implore, ô mon Frére [i.e. Frère]," Hamlet, Ambroise Thomas -- "Joseph's confession," Dead Man Walking, Jake Heggie -- "Like a wood in Ireland," Emmeline, Tobias Picker -- "Wie schön ist doch die Musik," Die Schweigsame Frau, Richard Strauss -- "Our revels now have ended," The Tempest, Lee Hoiby -- "Painting aria," Thérèse Raquin, Tobias Picker -- "The tower aria" ("Mes longs cheveux"), Pelléas et Mélisande, Claude Debussy -- "There was a knight," Little Women, Mark Adamo -- "To America I sailed," A View from the Bridge, William Bolcom -- "Ton Doux Regard se Voile," Lakmé, Léo Delibes -- "When my cue comes, call me," Midsummer Night's Dream, Benjamin Britten -- "Wohl wusst' Ich hier," Tannhäuser, Richard Wagner -- Index A: Soprano, twentieth- and twenty-first-century opera -- Index B: Mezzo-soprano, twentieth- and twenty-first-century opera -- Index C: Tenor, twentieth- and twenty-first-century opera -- Index D: Bass-baritone, twentieth- and twenty-first-century opera. |
