The difficulty in choosing great music from opera history lies not in what to include, but in what to leave out. Favorite Opera Highlights for Solo Piano solves this dilemma by encompassing only operatic music that offers interesting and satisfying keyboard transcriptions. It offers 42 pieces--enough to please pianists with a taste for opera.
Highlights include "Polka" from The Bartered Bride; three melodies from Carmen--"Habanera," "Soldiers Changing the Guard," and "Toreador Song"; "Glockenspiel" and "Papageno's Song" from The Magic Flute; the William Tell "Overture"; plus selections from Aïda, Fidelio, Parsifal, Die Walküre, The Marriage of Figaro, Faust, and other favorite operas. Perfect for intermediate and advanced players, this volume will delight pianists and opera fans alike.
Unabridged republication of The Heart of the Opera originally published by Mercury Music (n.d.).
Aida, Giuseppe Verdi
Céleste Aìda
Grand March
Barber of Seville, Gioacchino Rossini
Duet
The Bartered Bride, Bedrich Smetana
Polka
Carmen, Georges Bizet
Habanera
Soldiers Changing the Guard
Toreador Song
Don Giovanni, W. A. Mozart
Minuet
Serenade
Eugen Onegin, P. I. Tschaikowsky
Waltz
Faust, Charles Gounod
Flower Song
Soldiers' Chorus
Fidelio, Ludwig von Beethoven
Quartet
The Flying Dutchman, Richard Wagner
Spinning Song
Der Freischutz, Carl Maria von Weber
Huntsman's Chorus
Hansel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck
Evening Prayer
Iphigenia in Aulis, Christoph W. Gluck
Gavotte
Lohengrin, Richard Wagner
Bridal Chorus
Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti
Sextet
The Magic Flute, W. A. Mozart
Glockenspiel
Papageno's Song
The Marriage of Figaro, W. A. Mozart
Figaro's Air
Martha, Friedrich von Flotow
How So Fair
Die Meistersinger, Richard Wagner
Walter's Prize Song
Mignon, Ambroise Thomas
Connais-tu le pays?
Gavotte
I Pagliacci, Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Prologue
Parsifal, Richard Wagner
Good Friday Music
Le Prophete, Giacomo Meyerbeer
Coronation March
Das Rheingold, Richard Wagner
Song of the Rhine Maidens
Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi
Quartet
Samson et Dalila, Camille Saint-Sa'ns
My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice
Tales of Hoffman, Jacques Offenbach
Barcarolle
Tannhauser, Richard Wagner
Evening Star
March of Entry
Tristan and Isolde, Richard Wagner
Isolde's Love-Death
Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi
Anvil Chorus
Miserere
Die Walkure, Richard Wagner
Sigmund's Love Song
William Tell, Gioacchino Rossini
Overture (Pastorale)
Xerxes, G. F. Handel
Largo
