Opera choruses / edited by John Rutter ; associate editor, Clifford Bartlett.
Contributor(s): Rutter, John
| Bartlett, Clifford.
Material type: 
ScoreSeries: Oxford choral classics.Publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, Music Dept., c1995Description: 1 vocal score (xiv, 370 p.) ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0193436930.Subject(s): Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with pianoDDC classification: S/1944
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Oxford Choral Classics series gathers together over three hundred of the world's choral masterpieces into a unique series of seven volumes. Each volume contains all of the established classics of its genre under a single cover, in authoritative new editions, at a budget price. Opera Choruses is the first volume in the series. Audiences will love these classic choruses, skillfully arranged as separate concert works and available for the first time together. Rutter has researched the best available sources and provided excellent English singing translations, as well as sensible and practical new keyboard reductions for rehearsal accompanists.
Opera excerpts.
For mixed chorus and orchestra; acc. arr. for piano.
Pref. in English includes performance and historical notes.
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Russian words; includes English translations.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. iv)
- Notes on the choruses (p. viii)
- Notes on the plots (p. xi)
- 1. Beethoven/Prisoners' chorus (Fidelio) (p. 1)
- 2. Berlioz/Roman carnival (Benvenuto Cellini) (p. 17)
- 3. Bizet/Habanera (Carmen) (p. 42)
- 4. Bizet/March of the toreadors (Carmen) (p. 53)
- 5. Borodin/Polovtsian dances (Prince Igor) (p. 71)
- 6. Donizetti/Chorus of wedding guests (Lucia di Lammermoor) (p. 107)
- 7. Gounod/Soldiers' chorus (Faust) (p. 116)
- 8. Handel/Chorus of enchanted islanders (Alcina) (p. 130)
- 9. Leoncavallo/Bell chorus (Pagliacci) (p. 135)
- 10. Mascagni/Easter hymn (Cavalleria rusticana) (p. 145)
- 11. Mozart/Priests' chorus (Die Zauberflote) (p. 164)
- 12. Mozart/Voyagers' chorus (Idomeneo) (p. 167)
- 13. Mussorgsky/Coronation scene (Boris Godunov) (p. 173)
- 14. Puccini/Humming chorus (Madama Butterfly) (p. 186)
- 15. Purcell/Dido's lament, and final chorus (Dido and Aeneas) (p. 189)
- 16. Rimsky-Korsakov/Procession of the nobles (Mlada) (p. 195)
- 17. Rossini/Prayer (Moise) (p. 204)
- 18. Rossini/Villagers' chorus (Guillaume Tell) (p. 209)
- 19. Tchaikovsky/Chorus of peasant girls (Eugene Onegin) (p. 214)
- 20. Tchaikovsky/Waltz scene (Eugene Onegin) (p. 222)
- 21. Verdi/Anvil chorus (Il trovatore) (p. 239)
- 22. Verdi/Brindisi (La traviata) (p. 245)
- 23. Verdi/Chorus of the Hebrew slaves (Nabucco) (p. 253)
- 24. Verdi/Chorus of Scottish refugees (Macbeth) (p. 260)
- 25. Verdi/Matadors' chorus (La traviata) (p. 267)
- 26. Verdi/Rataplan (La forza del destino) (p. 277)
- 27. Verdi/Soldiers' chorus (Il trovatore) (p. 291)
- 28. Verdi/Triumphal scene (Aida) (p. 298)
- 29. Verdi/Witches' chorus (Macbeth) (p. 319)
- 30. Wagner/Bridal chorus (Lohengrin) (p. 328)
- 31. Wagner/Pilgrims' chorus (Tannhauser) (p. 337)
- 32. Wagner/Procession and chorale (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg) (p. 342)
- 33. Wagner/Sailors' chorus (Der fliegende Hollander) (p. 353)
- 34. Wagner/Spinning chorus (Der fliegende Hollander) (p. 359)
- 35. Weber/Huntsmen's chorus (Der Freischutz) (p. 364)
- Index of vocal and instrumental requirements (p. 370)