(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). This landmark publication collects arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers published by Boosey & Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations. The baritone/bass volume also includes nine arias for bass or bass-baritone. CONTENTS FOR BARITONE: John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Batter my heart * A FLOWERING TREE: Storyteller's Aria * NIXON IN CHINA: News has a kind of mystery * Mister Premier * Dominick Argento: THE ASPERN PAPERS: What a yielding nature she has * CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: You have already heard one sermon tonight * MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: If in the years to come * A WATER BIRD TALK: The Lecturer (Theme) * Leonard Bernstein: MASS: A Simple Song * Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: The Vicar's Aria (Virtue, says Holy Writ) * Tickling a trout * Churchyard's agog with a crowd of folk * BILLY BUDD: Billy Budd, king of the birds! * Billy's Farewell (Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray!) * GLORIANA: Cecil's Report Cecil's Song of Government * A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM O Helen, goddess * THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Lucretia! I'm sick of that name! Tarquinius's Aria (Within this frail crucible of light) * Carlisle Floyd: OF MICE AND MEN: George's Aria (You bet it's gonna be diff'rent) * WILLIE STARK: We all come out of the earth * John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: Thus Gamesters united in friendship * Sergei Rachmaninoff: ALEKO: Aleko's Cavatina * FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Lanceotto's Aria * Ned Rorem: OUR TOWN: When I got married * Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Nimmst einen Fiaker * Sie gibt mir keinen Blick * ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen * Igor Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: Come, master * I burn! I freeze! CONTENTS FOR BASS-BARITONE AND BASS: John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Teller's Aria * Dominick Argento: THE SHOEMAKERS' HOLIDAY: Simon's Aria * Leonard Bernstein: TROUBLE IN TAHITI: There's a Law * Benjamin Britten: BILLY BUDD: Claggart's Aria * GLORIANA: Raleigh's Song * A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Bottom's Dream * Carlisle Floyd: COLD SASSY TREE: I've known I loved you * SUSANNAH: Hear me, O Lord * I'm a lonely man, Susannah