The Cat's Aria by Rachel J. Peters Sheet Music for Piano & Vocal at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title The Cat's Aria

Artist Rachel J. Peters

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Rachel J. Peters

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 11

Arrangement Piano & Vocal

Publisher Rachel J Peters

Level 4

Product ID 1590671

Genre Opera Comedy 21st Century

Instruments Piano Voice

Product Description

Aria for dramatic soprano from the opera Three Amputators
Libretto by Royce Vavrek

Three Amputators is an opera-in-progress after the story The Three Army Surgeons by the Brothers Grimm. The opera tells of three travelling doctors who seek lodging for a night, offering the establishments innkeeper a demonstration of their unbelievable skills: they can cut out parts of their own bodies only to reattach them later with the aid of a proprietary salve. After one removes a hand, another their heart, and the third their eyeballs, an enigmatic cat appears on the scene to dine on the flesh and throw the course of the story into disarray. This is a contemporary interpretation of one of the Grimms most eccentric of tales. The character of the insatiable Cat is inspired by our national hero, Fran Lebowitz.

The aria premiered in Norway. If you are performing it in any other country, you can claim a national premiere! Full score and parts can also be made available upon request for performances with orchestra. Visit www.racheljpeters.com for more information.

DURATION: 4:30
WORLD PREMIERE: Oslo Chamber Music Festival, 2023

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