Great opera arias and themes for solo piano
Subtitle: 50 arrangements
By: Carolinda Carlson
Edition: Revised edition.
Published: 2014
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780486492803
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Operas; Piano scores; Excerpts; Arranged Piano music
Notes: Transcriptions for piano of popular opera melodies.

"First published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2014, is a revised edition of Grand opera for piano students, originally published by Carolinda Carlson in 2011"--Title page verso.

For intermediate-level pianists.

Staff notation.
Table of contents: title: The abduction from the seraglio = Die Entführung aus dem Serail. What joy, what delight = Welche Wonne, welche Lust / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; title: Aïda. Guard the Nile = Sul del Nilo al sacro lido ; Heavenly Aïda = Celeste Aïda ; Glory to Egypt and Grand march = Gloria all'Egitto / Giuseppe Verdi; title: Amahl and the night visitors. Don't cry, Mother dear / Gian-Carlo Menotti; title: The barber of Seville = Il barbiere di Siviglia. Una voce poco fa = A small voice I hear / Giachino Rossini; title: The bartered bride = Prodaná nevěsta. Villager's chorus = Seht am strauch die knaspen springen / Bedřich Smetana; title: Carmen. Toreador song = Votre toast je peux vous le rendre / George Bizet; title: Cavalleria rusticana = Rustic chivalry. Intermezzo : Easter hymn = Regina Coeli / Pietro Mascagni; title: Der Rosenkavalier = The knight of the rose. Waltz / Richard Strauss; title: Die Fledermaus = The bat. Csárdás = Gypsy dance / Johann Strauss, Jr.; title: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg = The mastersingers of Nuremberg. March of the mastersingers / Richard Wagner; title: Don Giovanni = Don Juan. Give me your hand, Zerlinda = Là ci farem la mano / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; title: The elixir of love = L'elisier d'amore. Una furtiva lagrima = Down her cheek a pearly tear / Gaetano Donizetti; title: Eugene Onegin = Yevgény Onégin. Tatiana writes a love letter / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; title: Faust. Angel hosts = Anges purs, anges radiuex / Charles F. Gounod; title: Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro = Oh, my beloved daddy / Giacomo Puccini; title: Hansel and Gretel = Hansel und Gretel. Evening prayer / Engelbert Humperdinck; title: I pagliacci = The players. E vo-i = I pray you ; Vesti la guibba = On with the play / Ruggiero Leoncavallo; title: I Puritani = The Puritans. Sound the trumpet = Suoni la tromba / Vincenzo Bellini; title: Il trovatore = The troubadour. Home to our mountains = Ai nostri monti / Giuseppe Verdi; title: La Bohème = Bohemian life. Musetta's waltz = Quando me'n vo / Giacomo Puccini; title: L'africaine = The African maiden. O paradiso = Oh paradise / Giacomo Meyerbeer; title: Lakmé. Ah, viens dans la forêt profonde = Ah! Come, in this secluded forest may lovers hide, by all forgotten / Leo Delibes; title: L'Arianna = Ariadne. Lasciatemi morire = No longer let me languish / Claudio Monteverdi; title: La traviata = The strayed woman. Drinking song ; Amami, Alfredo = My beloved Alfredo / Giuseppe Verdi; title: La prophète = The prophet. Coronation march / Giacomo Meyerbeer; title: Lohengrin. Faithful and true = Treulich gefürt / Richard Wagner; title: Lucia di Lammermoor = Lucy of Lammermoor. Esci, fuggi, il furor = Leave us ; Prelude for harp / Gaetano Donizetti; title: Madama Butterfly = Madame Butterfly. Humming chorus / Giacomo Puccini; title: The magic flute = Die Zauberflöte. O Isis und Osiris ; Papageno's silver bells / Wolfang Amadeus Mozart; title: Manon. Let be no sorrowing and sighing = Profitons bien de la jeunesse / Jules Massenet; title: The marriage of Figaro = Le nozze di Figaro. Silently bending, night's shadows = Voi che sapete / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; title: Martha. How so fair = Mi apparti tutt'amor / Friedrich von Flotow; title: Nabucco. Va pensiero = Go, my thoughts, on gilded wings / Giuseppe Verdi; title: Rigoletto. Dearest name = Caro nome / Giuseppe Verdi; title: Rinaldo. Lascia ch'io pianga  = Let me cry / George Friederic Handel; title: Samson et Dalila = Samson and Delilah. My heart at thy sweet voice = Mon coeur s'ouvre á ta voix / Camille Saint-Saëns; title: Tales of Hoffmann = Les contes D'Hoffmann. Barcarolle : Belle nuit, nuit d'amour = Boat song : Lovely night, night of love / Jacques Offenbach; title: Tannhäuser. Pilgrim's chorus = Beglückt darf nun dich / Richard Wagner; title: Thaïs. Meditation / Jules Massenet; title: Tosca. I lived for art = Vissi d'arte / Giacomo Puccini; title: Tristan und Isolde = Tristan and Isolde. Isolde's love-death / Richard Wagner; title: Turandot. Nessun dorma = Let no one sleep / Giacomo Puccini.