G. Schirmer

Song Number 2 from The Cloisters for Voice and Piano. Poem by William M. Hoffman.

Song Number 4 from The Cloisters for Voice and Piano. Poem by William M. Hoffman.

Like Virgil Thomson's opera 'Four Saints in Three Acts', this is a setting of text by Gertrude Stein. Also similarly to 'Pigeons on the Grass Alas' from that opera, it draws musical material from the...

Reduction from the work for Tenor and Orchestra.

Paul Creston's Dance Variations for Soprano and Orchestra is an unusual piece, with a wordless voice taking the place of a melody instrument in a series of challenging variations on a minuet-style the...

Lucia di Lammermoor' was one of the biggest triumphs of Donizetti's career, and remains as his outstanding masterpiece. The libretto was written by Salvatore Cammarano based on Sir Walter Scott's nove...

An Opera in two acts. Libretto by Felice Romani.

Tchaikovsky wrote 'Eugene Onegin' in 1878, using a libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky based on the epic poem by Pushkin. Flirtatious Olga and shy, bookish Tatyana are sisters, Olga being happily engaged...

Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Hansel And Gretel' actually began life as a short entertainment for a children's birthday party. Humperdinck enjoyed this project so much that he immediately set about turning...

It was 'H. M. S. Pinafore', or 'The Lass that Loved a Sailor' that established Gilbert and Sullivan as a creative force to be reckoned with in British comic theatre. Gilbert's libretto has everything...

Trial by Jury' opened at the Royalty Theatre on March 25, 1875, and was exceptionally well received. Gilbert's absurd plot concerns Angelina, who sues Edwin because he broke their betrothal and fell f...

Iolanthe' premiered on November 25, 1882 simultaneously at the Savoy Theater in London and the Standard Theater, New York. The wit of Gilbert's dialogue and sparkle of his lyrics is matched only by th...

First performed in 1950 at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia, The Consul was a phenomenally successful opera dealing with 20th century bureaucracy and socio-political issues. It is set in a totalit...

Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride, is a satirical spoof on Aesthetic poets and their followers. It revolves around two rival poets, Reginald Bunthorne and Archibald Grosvenor. Bunthorne lives in a castle...

This vocal score is a new and revised edition of the well-known opera that made television history on Christmas Eve, 1951.

Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride dates from the happiest, most musically fulfilling period in the composer's life, and draws inspiration from Czech folk music. The action takes place to the backdr...

Norma' was Vincenzo Bellini's eighth opera and the one that secured his fame and fortune as a composer. The conflict in the opera is between the native Druids of Britain and the Roman soldiers who are...

Otto Nicolai became one of the few 'one-hit wonders' among classical composers. Although some of his operas had success during his lifetime, it is really only his final opera, The Merry Wives of Winds...

A Soap Opera in 1 Act. English Only.

Gluck's 'Orfeo et Euridice' was one of three operas composed by Gluck in an attempt to reform the Italian opera seria. The libretto is noble and grand and this must have inspired Gluck, for his approa...

He's handsome, cunning and utterly merciless. Don Giovanni's lustful desires have left a trail of heartbreak and shattered dreams; but in the wake of a life lived to excess and devoid of honour, his d...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci was his first opera to be performed. The text, by the composer, is based on one of the cases encountered by Leoncavallo's father, a police magistrate in Naples. The...

Libretto by Angelo Anelli. Comic Opera in Two Acts. English Version by Ruth and Thomas Martin.

The libretto for this work, by playwright Henri Meilhac and journalist Philippe Gille, is based on L'histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. Retaining the novel's eightee...

Anthony And Cleopatra was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Association for the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 1966. Barber's opera is based on Shakespeare's play of th...