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Wright State University Department of Music is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)

Wright State University Department of Music is a proud OMEA

Performance Schedule : 2012/2013

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Too Many Sopranos

For tickets, contact the College of Liberal ArtsBox Office at (937) 775-2500 or go to the box office located in the Commons of the Ceative Arts Center.

Ticket prices are:

  • Wright State faculty and staff,
    all students, and seniors: $10
  • Adults: $12
Opera Theatre

 

Friday, March 15, 2013, 8:00pm
Saturday, March 16, 2013, 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 7, 2012, 3:00pm
Edwin Penhorwood's
Too Many Sopranos

Schuster Hall, Creative Arts Center

Four sopranos are brought to heaven's gates, but are stopped by St. Peter. Room has opened up in the heavenly choir for only one soprano. Each auditions in her own way with an aria that exemplifies the traditions and excesses of its time. The sopranos are told that if there were more tenors and basses that were in the heavenly choir, there would be no problem in letting them in. So, the sopranos go to hell to retrieve the men who have been condemned to eternal torment. Through a few operatic "tests" like trying to remain awake for an hour (a task made harder by a stage director boring them to sleep), all the sopranos successfully gain entrance to heaven with the men in tow.