Siempre Zarzuela: Mezzo-soprano

"(Music Sales America). These collections present celebrated Romanzas from Zarzuela, the popular Spanish tradition of music theatre which draws on elements of opera, popular song, dance, and spoken drama. With notes on the music and texts and transla t ions. 12 songs, with different songlists for each volume. ""The first modern collection of zarzuela songs was published in 2000, and since that time, interest has grown in this attractive form of music theater as a new generation of Spanish speakin g s ingers has found the songs and arias to be wonderful vehicles for both vocal development and performance in their native language...Each volume contains twelve solos ranging in difficulty from challenging operatic arias to simple folksong-like me lodi es. These collections provide a wonderful window into the world of zarzuela and offer new repertoire in Spanish that should be a part of every singer´s training and performance.""-- Journal of Singing "