Marvelous

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Live abridgment of “Marvelous.” First go at a “traveling” version of the opera.

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Marvelous is my adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s sequel to his Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz. The main reason I have adapted it is that the key element of the story, a surprise which reveals Princess Ozma as the true ruler of Oz, has never been told in detail.

This story affected me greatly when I discovered it at the age of nine. Starting as a novelization, soon the many threads and emotions which surfaced in my writing became too large for the printed page. I had already begun a series of arias to accompany the book, so it was logical to expand them and the story into the current opera.