A ROMANTIC COMIC OPERA IN TWO ACTS
Reviews
Houston Chronicle
“…A Room with a View seethes and soars…a strong sense of theatricality, especially when film-like lusciousness underscored big dramatic peaks.”
Houston Post
“Nostalgia runs through the music of A Room with a View as deeply as it saturates E.M. Forster’s romantic novel….one hears fleeting recollections of Respighi, Sibelius, and more often, lush Hollywood music of the 1940’s…”
A room with a View Production information
The Cast
Offering up to 6 soprano roles, this work will be useful to many university opera programs.
5 or 6 sopranos, 1 mezzo soprano, 2 or 3 tenors, 2 baritones, 1 bass-baritone plus supers. No chorus
The Orchestra
2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons
2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 Trombones,
Bass trombone, Percussion, Harp, Strings.
Onstage piano.
Lucy's Act One Aria
Free download of Lucy's aria from the end of Act One. Perfect English aria to use for auditions.
Site Content
Audio
A CD of excerpts has been released by the Albany Label. Available from Albany, Spotify, Amazon, iTunes. There are also links here to free You Tube selections.
Perusal Materials and performance rights
For perusal materials, performance rights, and any other questions.
Running Time
The opera is in two acts. Act One runs approximately 50 minutes and Act Two approximately 70 minutes.
Scenery
Act I: 6 scenes in 5 locales in Florence, Italy around 1908
Act II: 9 scenes in 5 locales in England, some months later.
Projection design available for rental.