Lauren Bernofsky
Mooch The Magnificent
A Children's Opera In One Act
Commissioned, 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.
Narrator, Mooch (soprano), Unicorn (alto), Lion (tenor), Orlando Spinks (baritone), Clarinet, Optional onstage violin, Cello, Percussion (one player): Ratchet, Cowbell, Vibraslap, Triangle (medium), Triangle (high), Suspended Cymbal (hard and soft mallets), Bell Tree, Bar Chimes (Mark tree), Wind Chimes (high), Piano
Chamber Ensemble
Piano Reduction/Vocal Score
Publisher: Theodore Presser Co
CF:441-41028
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Mooch The Magnificent
A Children's Opera In One Act
Commissioned, 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.
Narrator, Mooch (soprano), Unicorn (alto), Lion (tenor), Orlando Spinks (baritone), Clarinet, Optional onstage violin, Cello, Percussion (one player): Ratchet, Cowbell, Vibraslap, Triangle (medium), Triangle (high), Suspended Cymbal (hard and soft mallets), Bell Tree, Bar Chimes (Mark tree), Wind Chimes (high), Piano
Chamber Ensemble
Piano Reduction/Vocal Score
Publisher: Theodore Presser Co
CF:441-41028
Custom print. Please contact us for current price and availabity.
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