The New Opera
Oct 9, 2006 0:39:12 GMT -5
Post by casanova on Oct 9, 2006 0:39:12 GMT -5
*Casanova posted the notice in the foyer where everyone would see it.*
La Magia Felice (("The Happy Magic")) by an Italian Gentleman
Casting as follows:
Sunamia, The Wise Woman of the Woods - Magenta
Essie, the Little Milkmaid - Susanna
Queen Dulce of Vassilveria – Marianne
Princess Metrizia of Vassilveria – Arielle
Noravisina, the Evil Madwoman, Dulce’s Lady-in-Waiting –Carlotta
Pitterpat, The Smallest Fairy - Rosette
Karlana, The Good Sorceress of Wickentwire - Irene
Juliarva, the Poor Fisherman’s Wife - Alandra
Gogilla, the Baker’s Daughter - Lune
Tureena, the Town Gossip - Bonnie-Marie
Hettimaye, the Sea-Captain’s Daughter - Selena
Fiamonde, the Local Madame - Kathy J
Lilijova, a Local Whore - Sahara
Winklestoutilla, a Local Whore - Kellie
Mambolina, the Littlest Whore – Kayte
Male Roles:
Prince Tonza of Mauritazmania– Victor
Manifredo, the Poor Fisherman – Alex
King Dekorum of Vassilveria - Nadir
Anarak, the Dark Sorcerer of Twickenwire- Dracula
Patrizio, The Young Man From Across the Sea - Roux
Synopsis of Both Acts:
Takes place in the beautiful seaside kingdom of Vassilveria.
Act One:
Manifredo the fisherman suspects his young wife Juliarva of being the King Dekorum’s mistress—and although he is jealous, he is distracted by his lusting after Gogilla, the Baker’s Daughter, who pays him no mind, as she is engaged to a young man named Patrizio from out of town whom she has never met before. Manifredo sings a passionate song to Gogilla under the cover of darkness, and she finds herself moved, although she gives her admirer only a chaste but passionately sweet kiss before parting for the night.
Meanwhile, Patrizio has come on a ship, captained by Hettimaye’s father. Patrizio only knows that he is to marry a girl who is touted as the most beautiful girl in the world. Hettimaye has fallen in love with Patrizio while aboard the ship, but he fights back any feelings he might have for her due to his engagement to Gogilla, which he feels bound to honour. The two, upon parting, sing of their heartache in a sad duet.
Meanwhile, Juliarva has gone to meet with the King, her lover, and the two sigh for their class differences. She must leave before dawn comes and she is found missing, however, and she sings a parting love song to Dekorum as he watches her leave.
Meanwhile, the four whores, Fiamonde, Lilijova, Winklestoutilla, and Mambolina, wander the town despondently, finding nowhere near enough men to keep business flowing. Despite their low spirits, they perform a rousing rendition of “Lady Marmalade” in a bid to whip up interest.
Princess Metrizia is engaged to Prince Tonza, who is due to arrive in the country soon. She is something of a tomboy and does not look forward to her approaching marriage.
Prince Tonza, who is no more looking forward to the marriage than Metrizia, gloomily rides along in his carriage, singing of his rapidly approaching loss of freedom. The carriage then stops abruptly. Getting out to see what is wrong, it appears a herd of cows are blocking the road. The driver begins to yell at the Little Milkmaid Essie, but the Prince is struck by her beauty and demands she be left alone. They have a moment, but it is quickly over and the Prince must continue on his way, never learning her name.
Noravisina, an Evil Madwoman, sings an aria of her plan to poison the Queen and marry the King herself.
The Queen enters and sings of her unhappiness in finding that her husband loves another. Noravisina believes it to be herself, and gloats. “He lov-a me. Lov-a-me-lov-a-me-lov-a-me.”
Anarak the Sorcerer, has been trying for years to unsuccessfully woo Karlana over to the Dark side in order to absorb her powers. He pleads with her once more, only to be spurned once again in a dramatic and angry aria from Karlana herself.
Tureena, the Town Gossip, is well-aware of all these swirling affairs around her and tells all to her friend Essie in a cheerful and giggly aria, but the Little Milkmaid, who listens timidly to her friend’s prattling, has her head in the clouds over the young man she met on the road earlier in the day.
Pitterpat, the Smallest Fairy, overhears all Tureena says, and wishes to help these poor people. First she appeals to Bruzilda, her friend, the Goddess of Windchimes, who tells her that she must go speak to the Wise Woman of the Woods.
Bruzilda herself has long been in love with the mortal Sea Captain, having blown his windchimes in many a long night at sea. She sighs and sings of her impossible love with a melancholy hope, until she hears on the wind that her love’s ship has sunk. In her grief, she departs the land and goes to live at the bottom of the sea, singing as a mermaid now with her love and playing the seashells as her chimes.
Pitterpat goes to see Sunamia, the Wise Woman, who tells her that the Sorceress Karlana is the only one to help with all those problems. They then sing a pretty song about the fuzzy little woodland creatures and pretty flowers and then they make daisy chains.
Pitterpat goes to Karlana and explains the townspeople’s problems. Karlana is worried, since she cares for the townspeople, but knows she has not enough power to help them on her own. If she wishes to solve their problems, she must call on the dark magic of Anarak and put herself at his mercy.
She goes to Anarak and is too proud to ask for help, at first, but Anarak sees through her and demands a price for his help—a sacrifice.
Karlana and Anarak both know that it cannot be Karlana herself, nor Pitterpat, since the fairy child is immortal, and Karlana magic is needed to keep the town from going completely under Anarak’s dark sway. They sing a feisty and furious duet with each other, ending with Karlana tearfully turning away from Anarak’s wickedness, as he extracts the promise of payment from her, and Anarak laughing in malicious triumph and disappearing with a crack of thunder to begin casting his spells.
Act Two:
Patrizio wanders about the town, uncertain of which girl to greet as his bride, since every Sue he sees is as beautiful as the next. Still, he feels his heart is with Hettimaye, who is absent. He sings a song.
Noravisina has poisoned a bottle of wine and given it to the King, in the hopes that when he pours some for his wife, she will take ill and die.
Alas! For he shares it that night with Juliarva, who soon after grows pale and dies a lingering death in her lover’s arms as they weep together and sing.
Enraged at finding the Queen still alive and that the King’s beloved was not herself, Noravisina runs away to the woods.
The Queen comes to her husband, who confesses his broken heart and unfaithfulness to her. She graciously forgives him, having also lost her own love in her youth, as she tells him in a long aria. The couple joyously re-unite and pledge to better their marriage despite the pain of their past loves.
Manifredo thus finds himself free, and goes to Gogilla to confess his love for her. She returns his love, but feels she must marry Patrizio. Manifredo sadly leaves.
The next day, Patrizio and Gogilla meet for the first time, only to discover that they share a strangely similar birthmark. They realize that they are, in fact, twins separated at birth. Patrizio had one day gone swimming when he was very young, and had never come back. His family had assumed him drowned. He made it across the sea and was taken in and raised in that faraway land, only to return to the land of his birth to marry.
As the family weeps tears of joy, Patrizio and Gogilla are delighted to discover that they can marry where they please. Each runs off to find his/her love.
Patrizio finds Hettimaye mourning her father’s death (she sings a song here, too,) and he comforts her, telling her he is free to marry her. They embrace and go off into the sunset.
Gogilla finds Manifredo mending his nets and apologizes and tells him the good news. They run off along the beach having good cheeky fun.
Karlana, meanwhile, has related her problems to Pitterpat, who confesses them all to Essie, the Little Milkmaid, who she is friends with as well. Essie learns through this that her Prince is going to marry the Princess, and she selflessly offers her life in exchange for the magic that will make the townspeople happy. Pitterpat leads her to Karlana, who sadly brings the girl to Anarak’s castle, where she is taken away to a dungeon to be tortured and eventually slain—her innocent blood being the final part of the spell for happiness in some kind of sick fairytale version of ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’.
The spell takes full effect, and Noravisina and Tureena, for their crimes of murder and gossip-mongering, respectively, are turned into men. Tureena is now able to confess her love for her lifelong friend the tomboyish Princess Metrizia in a pretty duet. They elope.
Noravisina, as a man, is just as crude and horrible as she was as a woman. However, she has been pensioned off by the Queen and thus has ample amount of money and rage to spend on the Whore Quartet. They rejoice and go have an orgy.
Without his bride, the Prince Tonza goes to find the Little Milkmaid. When Pitterpat tells him of her sacrifice for the happiness of the town, he goes into a wild lament of how the happiness of all has destroyed his own.
Sunamia, the Wise Woman of the Woods, comforts the Prince and tells him that his love, for her sacrifice, has been pitied by Karlana and turned into a pretty little brown-eyed calf. The Prince strokes the little cow lovingly and kisses its nose and leads it away home with him, to cherish forever as a pet and be with it always, even if he cannot love the Little Milkmaid that was so giving and gentle. Every morning he would drink the milk from the cow he loved, and every night she would moo him to sleep. And so the Prince and the Little Milkmaid-Turned-Cow lived happily ever after, and the city was happy from the Happy Magic.
La Magia Felice (("The Happy Magic")) by an Italian Gentleman
Casting as follows:
Sunamia, The Wise Woman of the Woods - Magenta
Essie, the Little Milkmaid - Susanna
Queen Dulce of Vassilveria – Marianne
Princess Metrizia of Vassilveria – Arielle
Noravisina, the Evil Madwoman, Dulce’s Lady-in-Waiting –Carlotta
Pitterpat, The Smallest Fairy - Rosette
Karlana, The Good Sorceress of Wickentwire - Irene
Juliarva, the Poor Fisherman’s Wife - Alandra
Gogilla, the Baker’s Daughter - Lune
Tureena, the Town Gossip - Bonnie-Marie
Hettimaye, the Sea-Captain’s Daughter - Selena
Fiamonde, the Local Madame - Kathy J
Lilijova, a Local Whore - Sahara
Winklestoutilla, a Local Whore - Kellie
Mambolina, the Littlest Whore – Kayte
Male Roles:
Prince Tonza of Mauritazmania– Victor
Manifredo, the Poor Fisherman – Alex
King Dekorum of Vassilveria - Nadir
Anarak, the Dark Sorcerer of Twickenwire- Dracula
Patrizio, The Young Man From Across the Sea - Roux
Synopsis of Both Acts:
Takes place in the beautiful seaside kingdom of Vassilveria.
Act One:
Manifredo the fisherman suspects his young wife Juliarva of being the King Dekorum’s mistress—and although he is jealous, he is distracted by his lusting after Gogilla, the Baker’s Daughter, who pays him no mind, as she is engaged to a young man named Patrizio from out of town whom she has never met before. Manifredo sings a passionate song to Gogilla under the cover of darkness, and she finds herself moved, although she gives her admirer only a chaste but passionately sweet kiss before parting for the night.
Meanwhile, Patrizio has come on a ship, captained by Hettimaye’s father. Patrizio only knows that he is to marry a girl who is touted as the most beautiful girl in the world. Hettimaye has fallen in love with Patrizio while aboard the ship, but he fights back any feelings he might have for her due to his engagement to Gogilla, which he feels bound to honour. The two, upon parting, sing of their heartache in a sad duet.
Meanwhile, Juliarva has gone to meet with the King, her lover, and the two sigh for their class differences. She must leave before dawn comes and she is found missing, however, and she sings a parting love song to Dekorum as he watches her leave.
Meanwhile, the four whores, Fiamonde, Lilijova, Winklestoutilla, and Mambolina, wander the town despondently, finding nowhere near enough men to keep business flowing. Despite their low spirits, they perform a rousing rendition of “Lady Marmalade” in a bid to whip up interest.
Princess Metrizia is engaged to Prince Tonza, who is due to arrive in the country soon. She is something of a tomboy and does not look forward to her approaching marriage.
Prince Tonza, who is no more looking forward to the marriage than Metrizia, gloomily rides along in his carriage, singing of his rapidly approaching loss of freedom. The carriage then stops abruptly. Getting out to see what is wrong, it appears a herd of cows are blocking the road. The driver begins to yell at the Little Milkmaid Essie, but the Prince is struck by her beauty and demands she be left alone. They have a moment, but it is quickly over and the Prince must continue on his way, never learning her name.
Noravisina, an Evil Madwoman, sings an aria of her plan to poison the Queen and marry the King herself.
The Queen enters and sings of her unhappiness in finding that her husband loves another. Noravisina believes it to be herself, and gloats. “He lov-a me. Lov-a-me-lov-a-me-lov-a-me.”
Anarak the Sorcerer, has been trying for years to unsuccessfully woo Karlana over to the Dark side in order to absorb her powers. He pleads with her once more, only to be spurned once again in a dramatic and angry aria from Karlana herself.
Tureena, the Town Gossip, is well-aware of all these swirling affairs around her and tells all to her friend Essie in a cheerful and giggly aria, but the Little Milkmaid, who listens timidly to her friend’s prattling, has her head in the clouds over the young man she met on the road earlier in the day.
Pitterpat, the Smallest Fairy, overhears all Tureena says, and wishes to help these poor people. First she appeals to Bruzilda, her friend, the Goddess of Windchimes, who tells her that she must go speak to the Wise Woman of the Woods.
Bruzilda herself has long been in love with the mortal Sea Captain, having blown his windchimes in many a long night at sea. She sighs and sings of her impossible love with a melancholy hope, until she hears on the wind that her love’s ship has sunk. In her grief, she departs the land and goes to live at the bottom of the sea, singing as a mermaid now with her love and playing the seashells as her chimes.
Pitterpat goes to see Sunamia, the Wise Woman, who tells her that the Sorceress Karlana is the only one to help with all those problems. They then sing a pretty song about the fuzzy little woodland creatures and pretty flowers and then they make daisy chains.
Pitterpat goes to Karlana and explains the townspeople’s problems. Karlana is worried, since she cares for the townspeople, but knows she has not enough power to help them on her own. If she wishes to solve their problems, she must call on the dark magic of Anarak and put herself at his mercy.
She goes to Anarak and is too proud to ask for help, at first, but Anarak sees through her and demands a price for his help—a sacrifice.
Karlana and Anarak both know that it cannot be Karlana herself, nor Pitterpat, since the fairy child is immortal, and Karlana magic is needed to keep the town from going completely under Anarak’s dark sway. They sing a feisty and furious duet with each other, ending with Karlana tearfully turning away from Anarak’s wickedness, as he extracts the promise of payment from her, and Anarak laughing in malicious triumph and disappearing with a crack of thunder to begin casting his spells.
Act Two:
Patrizio wanders about the town, uncertain of which girl to greet as his bride, since every Sue he sees is as beautiful as the next. Still, he feels his heart is with Hettimaye, who is absent. He sings a song.
Noravisina has poisoned a bottle of wine and given it to the King, in the hopes that when he pours some for his wife, she will take ill and die.
Alas! For he shares it that night with Juliarva, who soon after grows pale and dies a lingering death in her lover’s arms as they weep together and sing.
Enraged at finding the Queen still alive and that the King’s beloved was not herself, Noravisina runs away to the woods.
The Queen comes to her husband, who confesses his broken heart and unfaithfulness to her. She graciously forgives him, having also lost her own love in her youth, as she tells him in a long aria. The couple joyously re-unite and pledge to better their marriage despite the pain of their past loves.
Manifredo thus finds himself free, and goes to Gogilla to confess his love for her. She returns his love, but feels she must marry Patrizio. Manifredo sadly leaves.
The next day, Patrizio and Gogilla meet for the first time, only to discover that they share a strangely similar birthmark. They realize that they are, in fact, twins separated at birth. Patrizio had one day gone swimming when he was very young, and had never come back. His family had assumed him drowned. He made it across the sea and was taken in and raised in that faraway land, only to return to the land of his birth to marry.
As the family weeps tears of joy, Patrizio and Gogilla are delighted to discover that they can marry where they please. Each runs off to find his/her love.
Patrizio finds Hettimaye mourning her father’s death (she sings a song here, too,) and he comforts her, telling her he is free to marry her. They embrace and go off into the sunset.
Gogilla finds Manifredo mending his nets and apologizes and tells him the good news. They run off along the beach having good cheeky fun.
Karlana, meanwhile, has related her problems to Pitterpat, who confesses them all to Essie, the Little Milkmaid, who she is friends with as well. Essie learns through this that her Prince is going to marry the Princess, and she selflessly offers her life in exchange for the magic that will make the townspeople happy. Pitterpat leads her to Karlana, who sadly brings the girl to Anarak’s castle, where she is taken away to a dungeon to be tortured and eventually slain—her innocent blood being the final part of the spell for happiness in some kind of sick fairytale version of ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’.
The spell takes full effect, and Noravisina and Tureena, for their crimes of murder and gossip-mongering, respectively, are turned into men. Tureena is now able to confess her love for her lifelong friend the tomboyish Princess Metrizia in a pretty duet. They elope.
Noravisina, as a man, is just as crude and horrible as she was as a woman. However, she has been pensioned off by the Queen and thus has ample amount of money and rage to spend on the Whore Quartet. They rejoice and go have an orgy.
Without his bride, the Prince Tonza goes to find the Little Milkmaid. When Pitterpat tells him of her sacrifice for the happiness of the town, he goes into a wild lament of how the happiness of all has destroyed his own.
Sunamia, the Wise Woman of the Woods, comforts the Prince and tells him that his love, for her sacrifice, has been pitied by Karlana and turned into a pretty little brown-eyed calf. The Prince strokes the little cow lovingly and kisses its nose and leads it away home with him, to cherish forever as a pet and be with it always, even if he cannot love the Little Milkmaid that was so giving and gentle. Every morning he would drink the milk from the cow he loved, and every night she would moo him to sleep. And so the Prince and the Little Milkmaid-Turned-Cow lived happily ever after, and the city was happy from the Happy Magic.