Roscoe: An American Grand Opera

by Joshua McGuire, William Kennedy, Evan Mack

Overview

The Piano Vocal Score of the American Grand Opera. Hailed as "American opera on display and at its finest..." (National Opera Association), ROSCOE (music by Evan Mack, libretto by Joshua McGuire) is an opera of larger-than-life dramatic and musical scale. Roscoe Conway, after many years at the helm of Albany, New York's notorious political machine, resolves to call it a day and quit politics. But a mysterious suicide message from his best friend throws him headlong back into a world of gangsters, whorehouses, cockfights, courtrooms, ghosts, and bygone loves. Based on the novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy, ROSCOE is an American grand opera for the ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781537568829
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/08/2016
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Since joining forces in 2011, composer Evan Mack and librettist Joshua McGuire have created a style that sets them apart in the world of contemporary opera. By writing words and music in tandem, they produce theatre grounded in climactic expression. Mack & McGuire deliver larger-than-life stories, and music that harnesses the full athletic thrill of singing.

Their first collaboration, The Secret of Luca, premiered in 2014 in Fresno, CA. In August 2016, their American grand opera Roscoe, based on the novel by Pulitzer-Prize winning author William Kennedy, premiered at the Seagle Music Colony to rave reviews. It later received a concert performance with the Albany Symphony and Met Opera superstar Deborah Voigt. In between these two large-scale projects, Mack & McGuire also found time to compose the first-ever opera for Twitter, #IsOperaDead-an opera in 5 acts lasting one minute and forty seconds.

Their latest enterprise is a multi-cultural Christmas opera for children, Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena, which will premiere to thousands of children on both coasts in the 2016-17 season. Mack & McGuire are currently drafting a new one-act opera entitled The Ghosts of Gatsby, slated to premiere in 2018. Individually and together, their work has appeared at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Seagle Music Colony, Winspear Opera House, Washington National Opera, Atlanta Opera, Glimmerglass, and numerous colleges and universities.