This rich collection of 23 soprano-range opera arias ranges from the dawn of Italian opera through the late 1800s featuring early opera arias by Caccini Campra and Bononcini; works by eighteenth-century composers Rameau Pergolesi Gluck and Mozart; and selections by nineteenth-century composers including Beethoven Weber Meyerbeer Rossini Donizetti Bellini Verdi and Bizet. This edition features a detailed and scholarly Preface by musicologist Henry E. Krehbiel and a new Introduction by Roelof Oostwoud.Soprano-range vocal majors vocal instructors classically trained professionalsingers and enthusiasts of vocal music will appreciate this well-chosen and modestly priced compilation.
