Coloratura Cadenzas

Exercises for Technique
I. Cadenzas for Operatic Arias
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: "Una voce poco fa" Performed by Gioachino Rossini
La Cenerentola: Cavatina, "Non, piu mesta" (Mezzo-Soprano) Performed by Gioachino Rossini
Les Contes D'Hoffmann: Doll Song Performed by Jacques Offenbach
Le Coq D'Or: Hymn to the Sun Performed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Dinorah: Shadow Song Performed by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Don Cesar de Bazan: Sevillana Performed by Jules Massenet
Don Pasquale: Cavatina, "Quel guardo, il cavaliere" Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
L'Etoile du Nord: "C'est bien l'air" Performed by Charles Francois Gounod
Ernani: Cavatina, "Ernani, involami" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
Faust: Jewel Song Performed by Charles Francois Gounod
La Favorita: "O mio Fernando" (Mezzo-Soprano) Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
La Fille du Regiment: "Chacun le sait" ("Ciascun lo dice") Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
---: "Il faut Partir" ("Convien partir") Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
---: "Par le rang et par l'opulence" ("Le richezze") Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
Hamlet: Mad Scene: "A vos jeux, mes amis" Performed by Thomas
Les Huguenots: "Nobles seigneurs, salut!" Performed by Giacomo Meyerbeer
---: Aria of the Queen: "O doux pays" Performed by Giacomo Meyerbeer
Linda du Chamounix: Air, "O luce di quest'anima" Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: "Regnava ne silenzio" Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
---: Mad Scene, "Il dolce suono" and "Ardon gl'incensi" Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
---: "Spargi d'amaro pianto" Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
Manon Lescaut: The Laughing Song Performed by Chantal Auber
Mefistofele: The Death of Margherita Performed by Boito
Mignon: Polonaise, "Je suis Titania" Performed by Thomas
Mireille: "O leger hirondelle" Performed by Charles Francois Gounod
Les Noces de Jeannette: Air du Rossignol Performed by Victor Masse
Norma: "Casta Diva" Performed by Vincenzo Bellini
Les Pecheurs de Perles: "O Dieu Brahma" Performed by Georges Bizet
---: Cavatine de Leila Performed by Georges Bizet
La Perle du Bresil: Chanson du Mysoli Performed by David
Philemon et Baucis: Air, "O riante nature" Performed by Charles Francois Gounod
Le Pre aux Clercs: "Jours de mon enfance" Performed by Herold
I Puritani: Polka, "Son vergin vezzosa" Performed by Vincenzo Bellini
---: "Qui la voce" Performed by Vincenzo Bellini
---: "Vien diletto" Performed by Vincenzo Bellini
Romeo et Juliette: Arietta (Waltz) Performed by Charles Francois Gounod
Semiramide: Cavatina, "Bel raggio lusinghier" Performed by Gioachino Rossini
---: "In si barbara" (Mezzo-Soprano) Performed by Gioachino Rossini
La Sonnambula: Air, "Come per me sereno" Performed by Vincenzo Bellini
---: "Ah! Non giunge" Performed by Vincenzo Bellini
La Traviata: "Ah, fors'e lui" and "Sempre libera" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
Il Trovatore: Cavatina, "Tacea la notte placida" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
---: Aria, "D'amor sull'ali rosee" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
Un Ballo in Maschera: "Saper vorreste" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
I Vespri Siciliani: Bolero, "Merce, dilette amiche" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
Zemire et Azor: "La Fauvette avec ses petits" Performed by Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry
II. Cadenzas for Concert Arias
Cantata, "Solitudine Avvenne" Performed by Alessandro Scarlatti
Echo Song Performed by Bishop
The Gypsy and the Bird Performed by Benedict
Lo! Here the Gentle Lark Performed by Bishop
Pretty Mocking Bird Performed by Bishop
Sweet Bird, from "L'Allegro, Il Penseroso" Performed by George Frideric Handel
The Wren (La Capinera) Performed by Benedict
III. Variations
Bravura Variations on "Ah, Vous Dirai-Je, Maman" Performed by Adam
Carnival of Venice Performed by Benedict
Theme and Variations Performed by Proch
Tu Fai La Superbetta (Theme and Variations) Performed by Willem De Fesch
IV. Waltzes
Il Bacio Performed by Arditi
The Blue Danube Performed by Strauss-Liebling
Parla! (Valse) Performed by Arditi
Se Saran Rose (Springtime) Waltz-Song Performed by Arditi
Springtime of Love Performed by Moszkowski/Haines-Kuester
Voices of Spring (Voci di Primavera) Waltz Performed by Strauss
V. Duets
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: "Dunque io son" Performed by Gioachino Rossini
Don Pasquale: "Pronta io son" Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
VI. Songs
Le Bonheur est Chose Legere Performed by Camille Saint-Saens
Chanson Provencale Performed by Dell'Acqua
I'd be a Butterfly Performed by T. H. Bayly
La Danza (Tarantella) Performed by Gioachino Rossini
The Maids of Cadiz (les Filles de Cadix) Performed by Leo Delibes
My Johann (Norwegian Dance) Performed by Grieg-Aslanoff
The Nightingale and the Rose Performed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Ouvre Ton Coeur (Open thy heart) Spanish Serenade Performed by Georges Bizet
Passepied Performed by Delibes-Aslanoff
A Pastoral Performed by Paul Carey
La Pastorella Performed by Gioachino Rossini
La Promessa Performed by Gioachino Rossini
The Russian Nightingale Performed by Alabieff-Liebling
Shepherd! Thy Demeanor Vary Performed by Thomas A. Brown
Swiss Echo Song. "Er Liebt nur mich allein" Performed by Eckert
Venetian Song Performed by Bemberg
Villanelle Performed by Dell'Acqua
When I was Seventeen (Swedish Folk Song) Performed by Kjerulf
Where the Bee Sucks Performed by Thomas Augustine Arne
Traditional Cuts
Carmen: Duet, "Parle-moi de ma mere!" Performed by Georges Bizet
Faust: Duet, "Il se fait tard" Performed by Charles Francois Gounod
Lucia di Lammermoor: Duet, "Sulla tomba che rinserra" Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
---: Duet, "Tu che vedi il pianto mio" Performed by Gaetano Donizetti
Martha: Recitative and Duet, "Mesta ognor" ("Theure Lady!") Performed by Friedrich Von Flotow
---: The Spinning-Wheel Quartette Performed by Friedrich Von Flotow
Mignon: Duet, "Legeres hirondelles" Performed by Thomas
---: Stiriana, "Je connais un pauvre enfant" Performed by Thomas
I Pagliacci: Duet, "Silvio! a quest'ora" Performed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Il Re Pastore: "L'amero, saro costante" Performed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rigoletto: Duet, "Oh quanto affetto" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
---: Duet: "E il sol dell'anima" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
Romeo et Juliette: Duet, "Ah! Ne fuis pas encore!" Performed by Charles Francois Gounod
---: "Nuit d'hymenee" Performed by Charles Francois Gounod
La Traviata: Duet, "Dite alla giovine" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
---: Aria, "Addio del passato" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi
---: Duet, "Parigi, o cara" Performed by Giuseppe Verdi