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Piano-vocal score (updated APRIL 17, 2024)
Título por Autor: The Scarlet Letter - an opera in 2 Acts – Piano-Vocal score (updated APRIL 17, 2024)
Instrumentação |
Piano, Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, Barítono |
Composição para |
Solo, Piano de Acompanhamento |
Tipo de composição |
Partitura piano-vocal |
Editora |
Enchanted Knickers Music |
idioma |
Inglês |
dificuldade |
Difficult |
duração |
2'10 |
In old Boston, a young woman, Hester Prynne, has been charged with adultery and forced to wear the scarlet letter 'A' embroidered on her breast. Just as she mounts the scaffold to receive her sentence, her husband, long presumed dead and newly escaped from captivity among the Indians, arrives and recognizes her. This man, renamed as Roger Chillingworth, begins a quest to discover the father of Hester's child. As the community wrestles with whether or not to allow Hester to continue raising her daughter, Chillingworth moves in with the pale young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale, who hides the fact that he is the father of Hester's child. In a dark night of the soul, Arthur is taunted by a local witch, and it becomes clear that he is overcome with guilt and inner conflict about his past with Hester. The two lovers meet in the forest, plotting their escape, sure they can escape the laws and mores of men in this new world. But Dimmesdale cannot forget his guilt, and during an election day ceremony he confesses his sin to the crowd, exposing a branded letter 'A' over his own heart. Dimmesdale dies at the moment of his confession, and the opera moves out into a broader, lyrical sense of time in which its stories are at least partly resolved. - David Mason
You can hear the NAXOS recording on Spotify.
Ye People of New England. Dimmesdale's confession aria
Título por Autor: Ye People of New England — Dimmesdale's confession aria from The Scarlet Letter
Instrumentação |
Piano, Tenor |
Composição para |
Solo, Piano de Acompanhamento |
Tipo de composição |
Partitura piano-vocal |
Editora |
Enchanted Knickers Music |
idioma |
Inglês |
dificuldade |
Advanced |
duração |
4'30 |
Ano de composição |
2008 |
Gênero |
Clássico/Ária |
In Act II, Scene 2 of The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale have plotted their escape from the confining judgment of their community. As the town celebrates Election Day and he lovers prepare to leave with their daughter, Pearl, they are confronted by Hester's estranged husband. Feeling his own body failing and worried that he will die without confessing his sin, Arthur mounts the scaffold.
This Canopy of Trees. Hester's aria
Título por Autor: This Canopy of Trees — Hester's aria from The Scarlet Letter
Instrumentação |
Piano, Soprano |
Composição para |
Solo, Piano de Acompanhamento |
Tipo de composição |
Partitura piano-vocal |
Editora |
Enchanted Knickers Music |
idioma |
Inglês |
dificuldade |
Advanced |
duração |
3'45 |
Ano de composição |
2008 |
Gênero |
Clássico/Ária |
At the beginning of Act II, Scene 1 of The Scarlet Letter, Hester has entered the forest with her daughter, Pearl, hoping to meet Arthur Dimmesdale on his return from a ministering errand. At this point, she has just been confronted by her estranged husband, Roger Chillingworth, who has uncovered the adulterous truth about the young minister. Here, outside the confines of the town, Hester begins to question the moral strictures that have governed her life.
The aria can be heard on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes or SoundCloud.
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