Piano Excerpts

Giacomo Puccini's masterpiece 'Madama Butterfly' has captivated opera audiences around the world for generations. The tragic love story of the young geisha Cio-Cio-San and American officer Pinkerton e...

Libretto: Ruth Schonthal & Wallis Wood. Szenen: Der Schlossgarten des Königs des Nordens, Gefängnisturm, der Schlosshof des Königs des Nordens, das Schlafzimmer der hässlichen Prinzessin, Hof vor dem...

Liana Alexandra ist Professorin an der Akademie für Musik in Bukarest. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Kompositionspreisen ausgezeichnet. Die vorliegende Solo-Sonate zeichnet sich durch weit ausschwingende,...

Auftragswerk von Voice and Vision, einer Theatergruppe, die von Marya Mazor geleitet wird. Eine Neo-Freudianische, feministische Sichtweise auf Ödipus. Die Hauptpersonen Jocaste und Ödipus werden sowo...

Die Oper Gänseliesel enthält verschiedene Motive, die auch in den Grimmschen Märchen Hänsel und Gretel, Rotkäppchen und Froschkönig vorkommen. Die Musik der Oper besteht aus solistischen Gesangsstücke...

Giuseppe Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' was based on a play by Gutierrez, adapted by Salvtor Cammerano. Although the critics may complain about its lack of subtlety - it is filled with exactly the kinds of tw...

1997 edition with both French and English text.

Mozart's 'The Marriage Of Figaro' was based on Beaumarchais' politically radical play - the second of the trilogy which begun with 'The Barber Of Seville' - later of course adapted into an opera by Ro...

Long neglected and misunderstood, 'Cosi Fan Tutte' (Thus Do All Women) emerged from obscurity in the twentieth century, and has come to be regarded as among Mozart's finest works. The Libretto is by L...

Puccini's 'La Boheme' is based on Henri Murger's novel Scènes de la vie de bohème, which draws it's inspiration from the Bohemian lifestyle which was somewhat in vogue in Paris at the time. This Libre...

Scribe's libretto to Verdi's 'A Masked Ball' concerns the real-life assassination of King Gustave III of Sweden at a masked ball in 1792 but adds a love story to what was probably a political murder....

In 'Tosca', Puccini explored the dark side of human emotion, a marked change from the late-Romantic sentimentality of 'La Boheme'. Also in contrast to 'La Bohème' where the villain was fate and so the...

The libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's 'Rigoletto' was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave from Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse which was so controversial it had been banned in Paris after one performance....

Saint-Saens originally began work on Samson and Delilah as an oratorio until persuaded by his librettest, Ferdinand Lemaire, to write it as an opera. The work is a synthesis of Wagnerian drama and Fre...

Libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille Du Locle. English alternative by Walter Ducloux.

Giuseppe Verdi was always fascinated by the plays of Shakespeare and wrote three operas based on them. The music for 'Macbeth', whose libretto is by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffeiis, is drama...

La Forza del Destino' is a product of the rich middle period of Verdi's long creative life, and marks an important development in his style. The entire work is pervaded by a dark, brooding feeling. Ve...

Gabriel Fauré's Chanson De Mélisande for Soprano and Orchestra. Reduction for Voice and Piano. 'An enchanted dream' - poet Charles VanLeberghe's words give us an idea of the audience's enthusiasm at t...

With its music composed by Jules Massenet, Werther is a lyrical drama that became famous at the beginning of the 20th century. This really complete edition contains pictures, text and scores of theop...

La serva padrona (The Maid as Mistress) was composed in 1733 by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) as a two-part intermezzo intended to be performed between the acts of his serious opera Il prigi...

While it scandalized Parisian audiences at its premiere by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3rd, 1875, Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) CARMEN became, a mere decade later, one of the most popular and fr...

The story of Turandot, while originally derived from the Persian collection of stories called "The Book of One Thousand and One Days," was set in China by Puccini. It tells the tale of a cold-hearted...

This new complete vocal score offers the original French text and clean printing.

Here's the complete Massenet opera, Don Quixote including both French and English texts. The vocal score includes a piano reduction accompaniment. KALMUS EDITIONS are primarily reprints of Urtext edit...