Short Operas

by Patrick Soluri

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short operas featured below:
• Figaro's Last Hangover • 
• Figaro & The Zombie Apocalypse •  
• Tragedy of Count Alfredo (opera haikus / 1 min operas) • 
• The Tell Tale Cellphone • 
• Adam & Eve •
• Polka • 

FIGARO's LAST HANGOVER

(2001) c. 10 min
music & libretto by Patrick Soluri
published by Soluri Music

Summary:
A dark, operatic comedy in 10 minutes that combines a long lost love, betrayal, beer, and an intergalactic rock on a crash course with earth. 

Performance History:
This is Mr Soluri’s most performed work, with over a dozen performances around the world, including:

• CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA - July 2, 2026 (piano version)
• OPERA MEMPHIS - October 26 & 27, 2024 (piano version)
• L'ARIETTA SINGAPORE - March 15, 2019 (piano version)
• L'ARIETTA SINGAPORE - Nov. 2016 (piano version)
• CENTER CITY OPERA THEATER: March 21-24, 2013 (piano version)
• FORT WORTH OPERA: March 4 in Dallas and March 5, 2013 in Fort Worth (piano version)
• FORT WORTH OPERA: November 1, 2012 (piano version)
• JUVENTAS ENSEMBLE: in Boston on February 21, 2012 (piano version)
• CARNEGIE HALL (Weill): October 1st, 2009 (string quartet & piano)
• REMARKABLE THEATER BRIGADE: in NYC in 2007 & 2008 (piano version)
• Premiere: Jan. 17, 2002 at the Univ. of Louisville (chamber orchestra)

Voices:
3x soloists [Sop, T, Bar] and optional chorus [SATB]

Instrumentation & Scores
• PV Score & Piano Reduction - 2026 revision (download PDF)
• String Quartet & Piano - 2026 revision (download PDF)
• Chamber Orchestra (download PDF) - Fl/pic, cl, 2hn, 2tr, Btbn, pn, 2 perc, strings

Audio Recordings & Video - for archival purposes only, not for comercial use

FIGARO & THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

(2013) c. 10 min
commissioned by Fort Worth Opera
music & libretto by Patrick Soluri
published by Soluri Music

Summary
A satirical opera in 10 minutes about Figaro Montague trying to meet a hot girl at the bar during the Zombie Apocalypse. 

Performance History
• CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA - July 9, 2026 (piano version)
• L'ARIETTA SINGAPORE - March 15, 2019 (piano version)
• L'ARIETTA SINGAPORE - Nov. 2016 (piano version)
• FORT WORTH OPERA: Oct 12, 2013 (string quartet & piano). world premiere

Voices
• 4x soloists [Sop, mez, Tn, Bar]

Instrumentation & Scores
• PV Score & Piano Reduction (download PDF)
• String Quartet & Piano (will be finished August 2026)

Audio Recordings - for archival purposes only, not for comercial use

Polka

(2012) c. 6 min
music by Patrick Soluri
libretto by Royce Vavrek
published by Soluri Music

Summary
Who knew that the polka could be so dangerous?  At a wedding reception in 1993 Jojo and her girlfriends are about to find out.

Performance History
total performances: 2  
• CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA - June 18, 2026 (piano version)
• HUBBARD HALL OPERA THEATER at University of Albany - April 4, 2014 (piano version)
• CARNEGIE HALL (Zankel) by Remarkable Theater Brigade - October 19, 2012  (string quartet & piano).

Voices
5x soloists [3x Sop, 2x mez]

Instrumentation & Scores
• PV Score & Piano Reduction - 2026 revision (download PDF)
• String Quartet & Piano - 2026 revision (download PDF)

Audio Recordings & Video - for archival purposes only, not for comercial use

THE TRAGEDY OF COUNT ALFREDO VON NIBELUNGEN

An Epic Cycle of Four Operas in Five Minutes
(2011) c. 5 min

music by Patrick Soluri
libretto by Natalia Boesch & Patrick Soluri
published by Soluri Music

Summary
Count Alfredo has the worst luck… all his lovers keep dying in this epic cycle of four one-minute comic opera “haikus" based on works by the great opera composers:

Act 1) La Bottega (Puccini)
Act 2) La Trattoria (Verdi)
Act 3) Die Zauberhünchen (Mozart) aka. "The Magic Chicken"
Act 4) Alfredo & Schnitzolde (Wagner)

Performance History
• CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA - June 11, 2026 (piano version)
• L'ARIETTA SINGAPORE - July 20 & Aug 19, 2016 (piano version)
• CARNEGIE HALL (Weill) by Remarkable Theater Brigade - Nov. 4, 2011  (string quartet & piano)

Voices
3x soloists [Sop, Sop, T ] and optional chorus [SATB]

Instrumentation & Scores
• PV Score & Piano Reduction - 2026 revision (download PDF)
• String Quartet & Piano - 2026 revision (download PDF)

Audio Recordings & Video - for archival purposes only, not for comercial use

The Tell Tale Cellphone

(2010) c. 12 min
music by Patrick Soluri
libretto by Patrick Soluri & Natalia Boesch
published by Soluri Music

Summary
A comic farce based on the stories and writings of Edgar Allen Poe, with a cellphone that drives our hero to madness & murder!

Performance History:
• CHARLOTTESVILLE OPERA - May 1 & 2, 2026 (string quartet & piano version) fully staged
•  CARNEGIE HALL (Weill) by Remarkable Theater Brigade - October 1, 2010 (string quartet & piano)

Voices
3x soloists [2x Sop, tenor]

Instrumentation & Scores
• Piano - reduction (download PDF)
• String Quartet & Piano  (download PDF)

Audio Recording - for archival purposes only, not for comercial use