Librettist: Terry Jones
Musical Fantasy
Date: 2008
Language: English
Duration: 74 minutes
Large-scale
Mrs Morris: Soprano
Nancy: Soprano
Egg Whisk: Soprano
Alarm Clock: Tenor
Vacuum Cleaner: Baritone
Stove: Tenor
Evil Inventor: Baritone
Lester the Vespa: Tenor
Gas Pump: Tenor
Good Inventor: Baritone
Motorcycle: Soprano
Tumble Drier: Soprano
In a world where machines and human beings can communicate with each other and share the same hopes and aspirations, certain machines have a different agenda. There’s a Vacuum Cleaner that tries to dominate the world. There’s a Car that kidnaps people; there are two Motorcycles that rob a bank and an Elevator that takes people to places they don’t want to go; and there’s a Telephone that says what people would like to say and not what they actually say – with terrible results for Mrs. Morris, the old lady who bought it.
5 S | 4 T | 2 Bar | B + 2 Fl (Picc) | 2 Ob (Eh) | 2 Cl (Bcl) | 2 Bsn (Cbsn) | 2 Hn | 2 C Tpt (Eb Tpt) | Tbn | 3 Perc | Hp | Pf | 2 Vln | 2 Vla | 2 Vc | Cb
Publisher: University of York Music Press
Date: 2008
Venue: São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Lisboa
Stage Director: Terry Jones
Music Direction: Cesário Costa
Cast: Ana Paula Russo, Ana Quintans, Carla Simões, Fernando Guimarães, João Oliveira, João Martins, João Merino, José Lourenço, Marco Alves dos Santos, Mário Redondo, Raquel Camarinha, Sara Braga Simões, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, e Alunos da Orquestra Académica de Lisboa
