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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts in English and certain other languages.

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Selected Sources for Translations

Lieder, line by line and word for word / by Lois Phillips.
Call Number: ML54.6.P55 L5 1980
Located: Walker Library - 2nd Floor

The interpretation of French song / by Pierre Bernac.
Call Number: MT892 .B4
Located: Walker Library - 2nd Floor

Word-by-word translations of songs and arias / by Berton Coffin, et al.
Pt. 1: German and French
Pt. 2: Italian
Call Number: ML54.5 .W65
Located: Walker Library - 2nd Floor

The complete Verdi libretti : in four volumes / by Nico Castel
Call Number: ML49.V45 C372 1994
Located: Walker Library - 2nd Floor

Selected Sources for Translations with IPA Transcriptions

French

French opera libretti by Castel, Nico (Translator, Editor)
Call Number: ML48 .F74 1999

v.1
Werther / Massenet
Carmen / Bizet
Samson et Dalila / Gounod [that is, Saint-Saëns]
Lakmé / Delibes
Pelléas et Mélisande / Debussy
Chérubin / Massenet
Don Carlos / Verdi
Les contes d'Hoffmann / Offenbach
v. 2.
Faust / Gounod
Roméo et Juliette / Gounod
La juive / Halévy
Mignon / Thomas
Hamlet / Thomas
Thaïs / Massenet
Les pêcheurs de perles / Bizet
Manon / Massenet
v. 3
Le prophète / Meyerbeer
Cendrillon / Massenet
Louise / Charpentier
Don Quichotte / Massenet
Les Huguenots / Meyerbeer
Les Troyens / Berlioz
Francis Poulenc : selected song texts by Néron, Martin (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.P68 N47 2010

German

German miscellaneous opera libretti by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML48 .G47 2005

Der fliegende Holländer / Wagner
Lohengrin / Wagner
Tannhäuser / Wagner
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor / Nicolai
Fidelio / Beethoven
Der Freischütz / von Weber
Hänsel und Gretel / Humperdinck
Brahms' complete song texts : in one volume containing solo songs, duets, Liebeslieder waltzes (both sets), the Alto rhapsody, folk song arrangements by Glass, Beaumont (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.B82 G52 1999
Die lustige Witwe = The merry widow by Franz Lehár by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML50.L518 L83 2006
The libretti of Mozart's completed operas : in two volumes by Castel, Nico
Call Number: ML49.M83 C315 1997

Vol. 1: Bastien und Bastienne ; La clemenza di Tito ; Così fan tutte ; Don Giovanni ; Die Entführung aus dem Serail ; La finta giardiniera ; La finta semplice
Vol. 2: Idomeneo ; Lucio Silla ; Mitridate, re di Ponto ; Le nozze di Figaro ; Il re pastore ; Der Schauspieldirektor ; Die Zauberflöte
Schubert's complete song texts : with international phonetic alphabet transcriptions, word for word translations and commentary by Glass, Beaumont (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.S39 G5

4 volumes
Schumann's complete song texts : in one volume containing all completed solo songs including those not published during the composer's lifetime, duets, trios, quartets by Glass, Beaumont (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.S387 G52 2002
Four Strauss opera libretti by Castel, Nico (Translator, Editor)
Call Number: ML49.S76 O62 2002

Der Rosenkavalier
Elektra
Salome
Ariadne auf Naxos
Richard Strauss' complete song texts : in one volume containing all solo songs including those not published during the composer's lifetime by Glass, Beaumont (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.S86 S62 2004
Die Fledermaus = The bat, by Johann Strauss by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML50.S912 F52 2006
Three Wagner opera libretti by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML49.W14 C32 2006

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Tristan und Isolde
Parsifal
Der Ring des Nibelungen = The ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML50.W14 R32 2003
Variants in Wagner's vocal lines : the "Ring" operas by Webb, Susan
Call Number: ML410.W15 W335 2005
Hugo Wolf's complete song texts : in one volume containing all completed solo songs including those not published during the composer's lifetime by Glass, Beaumont (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.W853 G52 2000

Italian

Italian belcanto opera libretti by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML48 .I83 2000

Vol 1
Il barbiere di Siviglia / Rossini
Il Turco in Italia / Rossini
Lucia di Lammermoor / Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore / Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia / Donizetti
Norma / Bellini
I Capuleti e i Montecchi / Bellini
Vol. 2
La Cenerentola / Rossini
L'Italiana in Algeri / Rossini
La sonnambula / Bellini
Anna Bolena / Donizetti
Maria Stuarda / Donizetti
Roberto Devereux / Donizetti
Don Pasquale / Donizetti
I puritani / Bellini
Vol. 3
Guillaume Tell / Rossini
Le comte Ory / Rossini
Otello / Rossini
Semiramide / Rossini
Il viaggio a Reims / Rossini
La fille du régiment / Donizetti
La favorite / Donizetti
Beatrice di Tenda / Bellini
Italian song texts from the 17th through the 20th centuries by Gerhart, Martha (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.I85 2002

Vol. 1: Italian song texts from the 17th century
Vol. 2: Italian song texts from the 18th century
Vol. 3: Italian song texts from the 19th and 20th centuries
Italian verismo opera libretti by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML48 .I89 2000

Vol. 1
Andrea Chénier / Giordano
Fedora / Giordano
Adriana Lecouvreur / Cilea
La Bohème / Leoncavallo
Mefistofele / Boito
Cavalleria rusticana / Mascagni
I pagliacci / Leoncavallo
La gioconda / Ponchielli
L'amico Fritz / Mascagni
Gluck & Monteverdi opera libretti by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML48 .G58 2008

Orfeo ed Euridice
Alceste
Iphigénie en Aulide
Iphigénie en Tauride
L'Orfeo
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Handel opera libretti by Castel, Nico (Translator)
Call Number: ML49.H13 O62 2005

Vol 1: Rodelinda; Alcina; Agrippina; Giulio Cesare; Rinaldo; Ottone
Vol. 2: Ariodante; Serse; Orlando; Partenope; Tamerlano; Radamisto; Lotario
The complete Puccini libretti by Castel, Nico
Call Number: ML49.P75 C37 2002

Vol. 1: La Bohème ; Edgar ; La fanciulla del West ; Madama Butterfly ; Manon Lescaut
Vol. 2: La rondine ; Tosca ; Il trittico ; Le villi
The complete Verdi libretti : in four volumes by Castel, Nico
Call Number: ML49.V45 C372 1994

Vol. 1: Aïda ; Alzira ; Aroldo ; Attila ; Un ballo in maschera ; La battaglia di Legnano ; Il corsaro
Vol. 2: Don Carlos ; I due Foscari ; Ernani ; Falstaff ; La forza del destino ; Giovanna d'Arco ; Un giorno di regno
Vol. 3: I Lombardi ; Luisa Miller ; Macbeth ; I masnadieri ; Nabucco ; Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio ; Otello
Vol. 4: Rigoletto ; Simon Boccanegra ; Stiffelio ; La traviata ; Il trovatore ; I vespri siciliani

Russian

Libretti of Russian operas. Volume I, Operas based on the poetry and prose of Alexander Pushkin by Belov, Anton (Translator); Brash, Ann (Editor); Konstantinovskaya, Valeria (Editor)
Call Number: ML48 .L53 v.1
Russian songs & arias : phonetic readings, word-by-word translations, and a concise guide to Russian diction by Piatak, Jean & Avrashov, Regina
Call Number: MT883 .P54 1991
Selected nineteenth century Russian song texts by Richter, Laurence R. (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6 .S457 2005

Russian texts of songs by Abaza, Aliabiev, Arensky, Balakirev, Borodin, Bulakhov, Cui, Dargomyzhsky, Dubuque, Glinka, Gurilyov, Kharito, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rubinstein, Varlamov, Verstovsky, and Yakovlev
Mussorgsky's complete song texts : Russian texts of the complete songs of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky by Richter, Laurence R. (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.M9 R52 2002
Prokofiev's complete song texts : Russian texts of the complete songs of Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev by Richter, Laurence R. (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.P76 R52 2008
Rachmaninov's complete song texts : Russian texts of the complete songs of Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov by Richter, Laurence R. (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.R119 R4 2000
Shostakovich's complete song texts : Russian texts of the complete songs of Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich by Richter, Laurence R. (Translator)
Call Number: ML54.6.S48 R52 2007
Tchaikovsky's complete song texts : Russian texts of the complete songs of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Richter, Laurence R. (Translator)
Call Number: M54.6.T35 T3 1999