THE AGONY UNCLE (formerly Bastien und Bastienne) Scene 1 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano, Vocal - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1820881

This is the complete Scene 1 of The Agony Uncle, with dialogue included. Mozart composed the Singspiel Bastien und Bastienne at the age of 12. The original story has just two shepherds and a shepherdess, girl has lost boy, girl gets boy back with the help (and hindrance) of the third character.

I brought it forward to the 20th/21st century, set it in the reception area of a girls' magazine, gave the two main characters his'n'hers names (Tony and Tania), the third character Colas becomes Nicolas Neptune, the magazine's agony uncle. I also added a sort of Greek chorus of readers and an extra character (we haven't met her yet, she's not in scene 1) which entailed grafting in three arias from another Mozart opera written at the same age, La Finta Semplice.

Each of the sections featured here is being uploaded separately as well.


Included in this file are:
Overture
1. I do not know who else to turn to
2. We'd been together two years last June
3. It all began some years ago
4. You might spend your whole life searching
5. When a man presents a proposition
6. My advice is, stop this dreaming.

This is only a voice and piano score; if you want to use orchestra, let me know, and I'll lift Mozart's original orchestration.

Suitable for youth groups and possibly schools, although there are some "explicit" words in scene 3; however, the chorus is not involved in that number, and -- spolier alert -- the characters are lying anyway.