Opera Piano, Voice
SKU: PR.441410280
A Children's Opera In
One Act. Composed by
Lauren Bernofsky. This
edition: Piano-Vocal
score. Libretto by Scott
Russell Sanders.
Premiered by Roundabout
Opera for Kids at the
Monroe County Public
Library in Bloomington,
IN. Opera. Vocal Score.
With Standard notation.
Composed 2012. 80 pages.
Duration 40 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#441-41028. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.441410280).
ISBN
9781491101261. UPC:
680160614226. Letter
inches. Libretto by Scott
Russell Sanders. Libretto
by Scott Russell
Sanders.
Commission
ed, premiered, and
frequently performed by
Roundabout Opera for
Kids, Mooch the
Magnificent is a
40-minute opera (with a
30-minute alternate
version), scored for SATB
principal roles, extra
speaking and non-speaking
parts, and an ensemble of
Clarinet, Cello,
Percussion, and Piano. It
may also be performed in
piano reduction. In a zoo
of the future, populated
not by animals but by
robots in animal form,
Mooch, an orphan girl,
convinces the zookeeper
to hire her to fix the
robots when they break
down, but she is actually
reprogramming them to be
increasingly wild. The
opera takes place in a
dome-covered city that is
part of a worldwide
network of such cities,
connected by travel
tubes, sealed off from
the outside. The time is
late twenty-first
century, after human
beings, afraid of the
wilds, have moved
indoors.
