The Incompetence Opera (including the Dunning-Kruger song)

Here’s video of the premier performance of “The Incompetence Opera”:

“The Incompetence Opera” is a musical encounter with the Peter Principle and the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

And with the word “so.”

This opera premiere was part of the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, September 14, 2017, at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University.

The opera is composed of three short acts. “The Dunning Kruger Song” is the final act.

The entire opera libretto was printed in IgBill, the program that was handed out to the 1100 audience members in Sanders Theatre that evening. You can download IgBill as a PDF.

The libretto is also included in the special Ig Nobel issue (vol. 23, no. 6, November/December 2017) of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research.