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Philip Seward, Natalie Arduino, Amy Becker & Patrice Boyd : Les Dames à trois...et piano
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A light-hearted trilogy of comic, one-act operas featuring a woman singer and a man in a supporting role while playing the piano.
Genre: Classical: Opera
Release Date: 2007
Les Dames à trois...et piano Record Label: Les Dames
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Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "It Was a Night Like Any Other" 2:19 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On" 2:33 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "Any Suspects?" 1:56 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "Under the Greenwood Tree" 1:56 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "Tell Me About the Suspects..." 2:51 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "How About Pick?" 2:23 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "What's Your Relationship..." 3:59 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "So, He's Caught This Poor Dame" 2:29 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "You Know, For a Dick" 5:20 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "What Do You Mean Do I Believe in Fate?" 3:28 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Detective, Op. 50: Act I - "Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More" 3:37 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "Cinderella Had Her Ball..." 2:10 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "Why Am I a Princess With No Show?" 2:17 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "Excuse Me..." 1:40 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "So, Do You Do Musicals?" 3:16 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "Rick, I'm Trusting You to Develop" 2:33 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "Conjure Me a Tale, You Handyman" 2:16 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "I Could Have Been a Frog!" 6:50 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "I'm Back!" 2:34 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "Then You Find a Flute" 4:27 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "I Would Not Deny You" 5:05 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "Rick...yes..." 1:10 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "But This Rough Magic, I Here Abjure" 1:37 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Piano Princess, Op. 50: Act I - "We Should Be in b Major" 1:36 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "My Boyfriend Plays the Piano!" 1:46 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Play the Piano, the Full Eighty-eight!" 1:07 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Now If He Would Just Marry Me" 2:05 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - " in the Magic of Midsummer" 4:09 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Once Again Tonight I’m Taking Food" 0:30 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Richard's Solo" 1:17 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "For a Year I've Known Sarah" 2:37 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Richard, I Let Myself In" 3:37 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Richard, Give Me Your Hand" 3:51 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Thank You For the Dinner, Sarah" 2:02 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, La, La, Ah!" 1:45 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Triple Strings, How They Sing" 0:49 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "in the Magic of Midsummer" 5:06 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/...And Piano Make Three, Op. 50: Act II - "Richard, Let's Go Out Tonight..." 1:57 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Epilogue, Op. 50: Act II - "He's Thinking of Me!" 2:01 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Epilogue, Op. 50: Act II - "I Knew He'd Get to Me!" 1:27 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Epilogue, Op. 50: Act II - "Lyric Schmyric" 0:27 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Epilogue, Op. 50: Act II - "At Last He Thinks of His Star!" 0:56 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Epilogue, Op. 50: Act II - "I Will Give Voice to His Music" 2:39 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Epilogue, Op. 50: Act II - "I've Got It!" 1:56 Album Only
Les Dames à trois...et piano/Epilogue, Op. 50: Act II - "Maybe Harmony's the Key" 1:58 Album Only
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Album Notes

Conceived as a set of three comic one-act operas, Les Dames à trois...et Piano was written for the three women who appear in them with the composer playing a supporting character from the piano.

The first, Piano Detective takes a ‘film-noire’ approach to a mystery involving the theft of a cadence. The second, Piano Princess, features a princess seeking her own Broadway show. Dismayed at the tales of all the other princesses she knows, Cinderella, Snow White, Belle, and Aurora who have their names in marquees all over Times Square, she seeks out Rick, a general all around fairytale handyman, to aid her in her quest to bring about the perfect fairytale. The third, ...And Piano Make Three, is about Sarah and her boyfriend, Richard, who plays the piano. She met him in Central Park while he was exercising his portable Casio keyboard and has been in love with him ever since. However, now that it is a year later, she is beginning to wonder how she can get his attention. He never stops playing the piano — not even long enough to take her to the Rainbow Room and propose. She soon sets out to use every means at her disposal to take on the piano.

The one acts use a variety of musical styles and move from the warm mezzo of Piano Detective to the soaring coloratura of Sarah as she engages in duets with her rival, the grand piano. Thus, the woman’s voice becomes increasingly higher from act to act. In addition to the casting, several other commonalities bind the three acts together. In each case, the man is named a variation of Richard (Dick and Rick); two common musical motives presented in each act; quotes from the works of William Shakespeare; a use of film genre — first, film noir, second, fantasy, and third, romantic comedy; music which arises comedically out of the situation; and, finally, a whimsical, “over-the-top” focus on some aspect of music. Each work can play separately or as a trilogy with the Epilogue — which takes place in the mind of a composer!

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