A Brief History of Root Vegetables
A comic opera in three acts
Instrumentation: 13 main named parts + 4 minor ones and chorus
14 player ensemble (1111 1110 pno perc strings)
Year Composed: 2010
Duration: about 2 1/2 hours with one intermission
Pages in piano score: 199; full score: 414
Cost: Rental: Please contact me.
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Review: (by Mike Greenberg, former senior critic at the San Antonio Express-News):
"...(a) zany, anarchic, sometimes puerile (but what the heck?) confection...A Brief History of Root Vegetables seems well positioned to become a funnier, bawdier, hipper alternative to Gilbert and Sullivan as a large-cast showcase for the voice divisions of music schools around the country. It might be a little too funny, bawdy and hip for most mainstream opera companies, but that's their loss."
Premiere: A Brief History of Root Vegetables was premiered in March 2010 by the University of Texas at San Antonio Lyric Theatre. The creation of the work was made possible in part by a Faculty Development Leave awarded to David Heuser by the University of Texas at San Antonio.