Selected Arias for Soprano, Volume 1
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.
Key figures like the Beautiful Helen, the Grand Duchess of Gerolstein or the Princess of Trébizonde feature in this first soprano volume, as well as characters from more serious operas such as Armgard from Les Fées du Rhin. The volume presents stage works, including excerpts from Barkouf, Les Bergers or Le Roi Carotte, which have only recently been made available for performances.
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.
