This landmark publication collects arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers published by Boosey & Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations. The baritone/bass volume also includes nine arias for bass or bass-baritone.

Arias and Excerpts from Baritone RolesJ. Adams: Batter my heart (Doctor Atomic) - J. Adams: Storyteller's Aria (A Flowering Tree) - J. Adams: News has a kind of mystery (Nixon in China) - J. Adams: Mister Premier (Nixon in China) - D. Argento: What a yielding nature she has (The Aspern Papers) - D. Argento: You have already heard one sermon tonight (Casanovas Homecoming) - D. Argento: If in the years to come (Miss Havisham’s Fire) - D. Argento: The Lecturer (Theme) (A Water Bird Talk) - L. Bernstein: A Simple Song (Mass) - B. Britten: The Vicar's Aria (Virtue, says Holy Writ) (Albert Herring) - B. Britten: Tickling a trout (Albert Herring) - B. Britten: Churchyard's agog with a crowd of folk (Albert Herring) - B. Britten: Billy Budd, king of the birds! (Billy Budd) - B. Britten: Billy's Farewell (Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray!) (Billy Budd) - B. Britten: Cecil's Report Cecil's Song of Government (Gloriana) - B. Britten: O Helen, goddess (A Midsummernight’s Dream) - B. Britten: Lucretia! I'm sick of that name! Tarquinius's Aria (Within this frail crucible of light) (The Rape of Lucretia) - C. Floyd: George's Aria (You bet it's gonna be diff'rent) (Of Mice and Men) - C. Floyd: We all come out of the earth (Willie Stark) - J. Gay (realized by B. Britten): Thus Gamesters united in friendship (The Beggar’s Opera) - S. Rachmaninoff: Aleko's Cavatina (Aleko) - S. Rachmaninoff: Lanceotto's Aria (Francesca da Rimini) - N. Rorem: When I got married (Our Town) - R. Strauss: Nimmst einen Fiaker (Arabella) - R. Strauss: Sie gibt mir keinen Blick (Arabella) - R. Strauss: Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen (Adiadne auf Naxos) - I.Stravinsky: Come, master (The Rake’s Progress) - I. Stravinsky: I burn! I freeze! (The Rake’s Progress)Arias from Bass-Baritone and Bass RolesJ. Adams: Teller's Aria (Doctor Atomic) - D. Argento: Simon's Aria (The Shoemakers’ Holiday - L. Bernstein: There's a Law (Trouble in Tahiti) - B. Britten: Claggart's Aria (Billy Budd) - B. Britten: Raleigh's Song (Gloriana) - B. Britten: Bottom's Dream (A Midsummernight’s Dream) - C. Floyd: I've known I loved you (Cold Sassy Tree) - C. Floyd: Hear me, O Lord (Susannah) - C. Floy: I'm a lonely man, Susannah (Susannah)