Piano Excerpts

Spartito per voci e pianoforte della celebre opera di Giuseppe Verdi tratta da Shakespeare e rappresentata per la prima volta il 14 marzo 1847 al Teatro della Pergola di Firenze.

Spartito per voci e pianoforte della celebre opera di Mozart tratta da Beaumarchais e rappresentata per la prima volta il 1 maggio 1786 al Teatro Burgtheater di Vienna.

Commedia in tre atti di Fr. Antonio Tullio.

Pulcinella is a Ballet commissioned by Diaghilev and first performed in 1920. It was based around themes and melodies from Pergolesi, but with modern harmonies and rhythms, and marked the start of the...

Piano and Vocal Score

This short opera (duration of 50 minutes), aptly designed for children to perform with modest resources, is a version of the familiar tale, though with certain adaptations. Cinderella is an au pair gi...

Work for Solo Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, commissioned by Carnegie Hall. Text: Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The piece was first performed by Jessye Norman and the Orchest...

This was originally written for soprano, counter tenor and baritone soloists and chamber orchestra. This version scored for soprano, counter tenor and piano, was composed in 1997 for a concert given b...

Vocal score for Adriana Mater - the second opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and librettist Amin Maalouf. Written in 2005, the work is Saariaho’s largest in size and duration, and explores them...

Cinq Reflets was commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philarmonic Orchestra - Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation and features texts by Amin Maalouf and Jaufré Rudel. The first performance took place on...

With a libretto written by Weir herself, based on the cryptic supernatural short story Der Blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. This one act pocket version of the opera makes use of a Chamber group ra...

The vocal score for The Hidden Place, a work for solo soprano and orchestra, written for Diana Damrau. The work sets to music a collection of poems that depict the intimate moments shared by two lover...

Miss Fortune, by British composer Judith Weir, is a contemporary re-telling of a Sicilian folk story. Tina's wealthy family lose all their possessions overnight and she is thrown into a life of povert...

Natural History is a work by Judith Weir for Soprano and Orchestra. The work sets four brief texts taken from Chuang Tzu, a classical collection of Taoist writings from the 4th, 3rd and 2nd centuries...

Judith Weir's Good Morning, Midnight was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and was first performed on 6th June 2015 at the Wigmore Hall in London. The work is arranged for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensembl...

Iain Bell’s "Aurora" is a concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It premiered at the BBC Proms in 2018 with soprano...

The vocal score for Bell’s 2019 opera, Stonewall. Commissioned by New York City Opera, and with a libretto by Mark Campbell, the opera was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stone...

Ludovico Einaudi’s first opera Winter Journey premiered in Palermo in 2019. It takes as its subject the refugee crisis in Europe and features a libretto by award-winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

Vocal score for Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, which was premiered at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2021 in a production directed by Simon Stone. Set at a wedding, the drama centres arou...

The original version of Kaija Saariaho’s Saarikoski-laulut for voice and piano (CH88086) was written for the soprano Anu Komsi, to whom the songs are dedicated. The song cycle is based on a collection...

Commissioned by the Oxford Lieder Festival, for baritone and piano, this song sets text by Charles Baudelaire in an English translation by Eleanor Brown. Premiered by Ashley Riches, baritone and Micha...

A two and a half minute piece for voices and piano, commissioned and first performed by the London Symphony Orchestra Discovery Choir conducted by Neil Ferris..One Earth sets a text by Di Sherlock for...

There Will Be a Place is a song for soprano and piano composed by Rachel Portman with text by American poet Dorothy Trogdon. It was premiered by Lucy Crowe and Anna Tilbrook in London in 2024.

The English Language version of The Black Spider (also known as The Mystery of The Black Spider) commissioned by Opera North. Originally written in 1984, this is a very popular opera by Judith Weir. T...

Opera in 2 Acts (Italian text) Detailed Indexes and Synopses in English, Italian, French and German