Selected Arias for Mezzo-Soprano, Volume 1
Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Jacques Offenbach
- Critical and practical edition
- Part of the Offenbach Edition Keck series
- Suitable for fully trained and budding professionals
- Advanced level
Jacques Offenbach’s stage works, of which there are more than 100, are an endless treasure trove of vocal highlights with a variety of musical moods and lyrical themes. To mark the composer’s 200th birthday in 2019 and celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Offenbach Edition Keck OEK, the editor and Offenbach expert Jean-Christophe Keck has assembled a selection of arias. The four-part collection arranged according to voice type shows a rather unknown, romantic side of Offenbach.
As well as rediscovered works and first editions such as Les Bavards, Maître Péronilla and Robinson Crusoé, this first volume for mezzo-soprano is not complete without some of his unrivalled hits which the composer wrote for his most famous star, Hortense Schneider.
Romantic Offenbach is aimed at fully trained and budding professionals as well as at Offenbach fans, providing repertoire pieces for recitals, studies or private music-making.
