Airs D’Opera / Operatic Arias. Soprano, Vol.3 RAMEAU JEAN-PHILIPPE

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Volume 3 for soprano contains the first half of the large-scale arias and ariettas that Rameau composed for lyric soprano (the 18th-century equivalent of todays lyric coloratura soprano) in his prologues and divertissements. Each number is accompanied by a keyboard reduction and is introduced by a brief account of the dramatic situation as well as an English translation of the vocal text.