A Friend of Napoleon (Piano/Vocal Score)
by Robert Ward
4-Part - Sheet Music

Operetta in 2 Acts (2 2 2 2 - 2 2 2(ten tbn.btbn)0 - T+1(sn) - H - Str, SATB Chorus including brief Soprano, Tenor, Baritone solos)

SKU: EC.VP0003

Composed by Robert Ward. One Act/Chamber Opera. 20th Century. Piano/vocal score. E.C. Schirmer Publishing #VP0003. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing (EC.VP0003).

Operetta in 2 Acts composed by Robert Ward. Commissioned by the Ohio Light Opera to honor James Stuart, Founder of the Company and Artistic Director from 1979-1999.

Libretto:
Written by James Stuart. Based on the O’Henry Prize-Winning Story by Richard Connell.

Synopsis:
Papa Chibou has come to Paris from the south of France with the idea of planting asparagus along its beautiful boulevards. Finding that such a practice is forbidden, he takes a job as watchman in a wax museum. He becomes particularly attached to a miserable statue of a man (one of his ears had come into contact with a steam radiator) wearing a three-cornered cocked hat and with his left hand shoved into his bosom. He knows nothing about this forsaken creature other than that his name is Napoleon. One spring day, Nina, a young American girl who is chaperoned by her aunt Alice, encounters at the museum the handsome Georges Dufayel, a young attorney with an extremely promising future. Papa Chibou becomes involved in their clandestine love-at-first-sight affair. What will happen when the World of Wax becomes bankrupt and Papa Chibou tries to save the statue of Napoleon from the auction block?

Roles:
NINA SEIBEL	Soprano
NANNY	Mezzo-Soprano
GEORGES DUFAYEL	Tenor
PAPA CHIBOU	Baritone
MONSIEUR PRATOUCY	Baritone
MOGEN	Spoken
MARIE ANTOINETTE	Soprano
CHARLOTTE CORDAY	Mezzo-Soprano
ATTILA	Baritone
MARAT	Baritone
RASPUTIN	Bass
AUCTIONEER	Spoken
KEEPER IN JAIL	Spoken
JAILER	Spoken
JUDGE BERTOUF	Baritone
JUDGE GOBLIN	Bass Baritone