Too Many Sopranos

• Music by Edwin Penhorwood
  Libretto by Miki Thompson
• Composer: Penhorwood, Edwin
• Peformance Rates: Click HERE to submit a request for performance rates.
• Description: Hilarious new opera! Four Divas arrive in heaven to learn there is not enough room for all of them in the Heavenly Chorus due to all the tenors and basses in Hell. They must go to Hell and do a selfless deed in order to bring back some tenors and basses.
• Dame Doleful's Aria
  
  Windows Media (.wmv) - 3.79 MB
  MPEG format (.mpg) - 13.1 MB
  
• Miss Titmouse's Aria
  
  Windows Media (.wmv) - 3.97 MB
  MPEG format (.mpg) - 12.6 MB
  
• Madame Pompous's Aria
  
  Windows Media (.wmv) - 4.48 MB
  MPEG format (.mpg) - 13.1 MB
  
• Just Jeanette's Aria
  
  Windows Media (.wmv) - 4.67 MB
  MPEG format (.mpg) - 13.0 MB
  
• Enrico Carouser's Aria
  
  Windows Media (.wmv) - 4.03 MB
  MPEG format (.mpg) - 15.9 MB
  
• Ensemble
  
  Windows Media (.wmv) - 4.42 MB
  MPEG format (.mpg) - 18.3 MB
  
• Sandman's Aria
  
  Windows Media (.wmv) - 3.15 MB
  MPEG format (.mpg) - 8.66 MB
  
  
• Synopsis: A full synopsis can be found here.
• Podcast: Listen to a podcast of a complete performance of Too Many Sopranos produced by Southern Utah University in April 2008.
• Biography: A biography of the composer may be found here.
• Cast: For a list of the cast of characters, click here.
• Orchestration: The Orchestration may be found here.
• Reviews:

  "I love "Too Many Sopranos"...It certainly deserves a place in the repertoire. What a joy to hear a contemporary work written with such understanding for the voices." - Richard Bonynge
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