Lend Me a Tenor

• World Premiere (2010)
  Plymouth, England
• Original London Production (2011)
  London, England

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Original score

• Verdi's Otello/I-1
• Where the Hell is Merelli?
• Fling
• How 'Bout Me?
• For the Love of Opera
• Facciamo L'Amor
• The Last Time
• Be Yourself
• Before You Know It
• Il Stupendo
• Lend Me a Tenor
• May I Have a Moment?
• Knowing What I Know

Based on the play of the same name by Ken Ludwig.

It is 1934, and the world's greatest tenor Tito Merelli has come to Cleveland, Ohio, to save its Grand Opera Company by singing Verdi's Otello. When he is unexpectedly incapacitated, Max, the opera director’s meek assistant, is given the daunting task of finding a last-minute replacement. Chaos ensues - including a scheming soprano, a tenor-struck ingénue, a jealous wife, shrimp gone bad and the Cleveland Police department.