The Music Shop
An Opera by Richard Wargo
Based on the short story, Forgot, by Anton Chekhov
Friday May 31 2013 (Reunions) at 2:30pm
Butler College Ampitheatre
Synopsis:
A man enters a music shop with a responsibility – to buy sheet music for his wife to sing at a prince’s royal wedding. Yet he forgets the title and the tune of it. What ensues is a chaotic scrambling through the “largest collection of music in all of Russia” in a vain attempt to have the man recognize the song requested and various hallucinations of the raging Wagnerian soprano wife if the man turns up empty-handed.
Cast:
Masha (Soprano)
an attractive girl in her 20s working in a music shop
Dimitri Petrovsky (Baritone)
proper proper middle-aged owner of the music shop
Ivan Stepanovich (Tenor)
bubbling husband of a Wagnerian opera singer
Ivan’s Wife (Mezzo-Soprano)
a Wagnerian opera singer
Auditions will be held separate from our general auditions late spring.