Standard Vocal Repertoire

For years this G. Schirmer edition has been the standard-bearer of all vocal anthologies. Now available with professional piano accompaniment on CD or online.  

This volume offers a refreshing alternative to the many Italian Songs and Arias collections geared toward young singers. It celebrates women composers of solo music in Italian beginning in the late

These groundbreaking anthologies of arias for each voice type collect arias and role excerpts from operas of the 20th and 21st centuries. Composers include John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd,

The most celebrated arias from the operatic repertoire are presented in seven volumes. Each volume is dedicated to a specific voice type and contains unique content. Volumes: Lyric Coloratura to Lyric

Part of a series of operatic aria anthologies subdivided by vocal register, this collection is drawn from Antonio Vivaldi's surviving musical works for the theater. Its sources include 24 musical dramas,

This dramatic masterpiece is a standard selection in the soprano repertoire. The origin of this concert aria, though, is swathed in mystery. We still do not know where Beethoven found the text for the aria.

Although these arias are sung by the character Alyce, in the production they represent the younger and older versions of herself and are played by two different singers. Young Alyce sings My Darling

Young Thompson was captured as a POW in the Vietnam War. Now, as Old Thompson, he sings the Catalogue Aria after receiving a letter from Richard Nixon which warns that he might find some

Part of a series of operatic aria anthologies subdivided by vocal register, this collection is drawn from Antonio Vivaldi's surviving musical works for the theater. Its sources include 24 musical dramas,

"With distinguish'd glory shine, to add a lustre to this day." In 1713, Handel set this joyful text to one of his most exquisite melodies. A tender work of extraordinary grace, Eternal Source of Light