Piano Excerpts

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...

Opera in Three Acts. Paperback Vocal Score of the Revised Edition.

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...

A short Opera-Comedy with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti.

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...

Mozart's Bastien and Bastienna is a superb opera, and available here is the Vocal score, in English only, as translated by Hamilton Benz.

Enrique Granados's epic opera in three tableaux based on stories painted by the famous Spanish painter Goya. This edition contains both Fernando Periquet's original text and James Weldon Johnson's Eng...

Operetta.

Now available for the first time in print, this popular one-act opera by the composer of 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' explores the moral dilemmas that arise when an orphan gives refuge to a stranger...

Spiritual from 'Black, Brown and Beige'. Adapted by Lawrence Rosen.

Words and music by Irving Berlin.

This show creates a musical journey through the last ten centuries featuring tales of what really happend to characters of the Bayeux Tapestry at night; 11 century Britain with the 'Domesday Crew'; Th...

Composer's NoteThis piece is intended for performance in the open air, or else in a small building. When performed out of doors there should be a long avenue or path through a wood in the centre of th...

Gilbert, William S. (1836 - 1911) & Sullivan, Arthur S. (1842 - 1900)

The official premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous light opera, The Pirates of Penzance, was in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences and critics. V...