Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt L…

13 selected arias from early baroque to classic-A clearly defined theme: strong triumphant but also forsaken and suffering protagonists all of royal blood have their say in a series of arias from the early Baroque up to the early Classical period that cover an enormous range of musical soul searching and character-drawing. It was to be an attractive mixture of the well-known and unknown for …