ON GOLDEN WINGS – PLAY ABOUT GIUSEPPE VERDI
The time – 1841. The place – Milano. Bartolomeo Merelli, Inspector General of the Royal and Imperial Austro-Hungarian Theatres makes his way to the poorer quarters in Milano intent on a special mission. The mission – to make composer Giuseppe Verdi compose once more. Verdi, once a talented opera composer has given it all up and means to teach following several tragedies in his life including the death of his beloved wife and their two children and the failure of his most recent comic opera. Merelli means to change all that by convincing him to write a masterpiece, namely, the opera ‘Nabucco,’ about the Hebrew slaves in Babylon. But will he convince him to do so in this play about Giuseppe Verdi?
‘On Golden Wings’ was a runner up at the Mark Twain Playwriting Competition in Harford, CT and was performed at Theatre Studio NYC in two productions and later at Yale University in New Haven, CT.
Author: A. Giovanni Affinito
Genre: Biography
Type: One act play
Cast: 2M
Ages of the actors: Adult
Suitable for: All ages
Length: Thirty minutes
Set: A drably furnished room, with a door, a coat stand, a wooden table and three chairs and a battered piano in it, with an oil lamp on the table.
Level of difficulty: 7/10 – authenticity
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Cost is $7 for this runner up digital play script
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Copyright © July 2016 A. Giovanni Affinito and Off The Wall Play Publishers
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