Four Saints in Three Acts
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Wadsworth Atheneum...was shown at the Wadsworth in 1931, and the first major U.S. Picasso retrospective was held in 1934. Also in 1934, the world premiere of the opera Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson was held at the Atheneum. In this article: Wadsworth Atheneum, George Balanchine, Smithsonian Institution, Nathan Hale, Daniel Wadsworth, Hudson River School, Connecticut, and Fiscal year |
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Eva Jessye
...woman regardless of ethnicity. She collaborated in productions of groundbreaking works - such as with Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three Acts and with George Gershwin on Porgy and Bess. Eva Jessye was born 20 January...
In this article: Eva Jessye, University of Michigan, New York, Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin, and Baltimore
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Wikipedia | October 06, 2009
Four Saints in Three Acts
Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Written in 1927-8, it contains about twenty saints, and is in at least four acts. It was ground breaking for form, content, and its...
In this article: Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein, Ignatius of Loyola, Eva Jessye, Avila, Cellophane, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, and Florine Stettheimer
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Wikipedia | July 07, 2009
Jayne West
...Juniper Tree. West also sang in the Mark Morris Dance Group's productions of L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato, Dido and Æneas, and Four Saints in Three Acts. The soprano has been heard with the orchestras of Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo,...
In this article: Jayne West, The Rake's Progress, Boston, Don Giovanni, Jane Ring Frank, Compact Disc, Boston Arts Academy, Houston Grand Opera, and Tanglewood
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San Jose Mercury News | June 27, 2009
Betty Allen, famed mezzo-soprano, dies at age 82
...in Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore," was her favorite role because "she's absolutely nuts." With the Metropolitan Opera, she sang in "Four Saints in Three Acts," an opera by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein. Thomson, the highly respected
In this article: Marian Anderson, Virgil Thomson, Washington, Ohio, Sweeties, Easter Sunday, and Cancer
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Guardian Unlimited | June 12, 2009
Who's afraid of Gertrude Stein?
...a mystery what that action is. That's why a brilliant director, such as Elizabeth LeCompte with House/Lights or Robert Wilson with Four Saints in Three Acts (which I've only seen on video, alas) can use the text as a template to create...
In this article: Gertrude Stein, Elaine Showalter, Robert Wilson, and JavaScript
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Village Voice | June 02, 2009
A Family of Perhaps Three Revives an Unreadable Stein
A Family of Perhaps Three Revives an "Unreadable" Stein In Everybody's Autobiography, Gertrude Stein opined, "My writing is clear as mud, but mud settles and clear streams run on and disappear." Indeed, some 70 years on, Stein's writing...
In this article: Gertrude Stein, Elaine Showalter, and Everybody's Autobiography
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Wikipedia | April 21, 2009
Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.
...the Avery Theater (now Aetna Theater), one of the first theaters in an American art museum, with the premiere of the opera Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson. In 1928 Austin founded The Friends and...
In this article: Wadsworth Atheneum, Alexander Calder, Andrea Palladio, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Gertrude Stein, and Virgil Thomson
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New York Times | February 19, 2009
Classical Music/Opera Listings
...insightful performance. At 8 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000, metopera.org; $80 to $375. (Tommasini) ★ 'FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS': A CELEBRATION (Friday) Feb. 20 is the 75th anniversary of the Broadway opening...
In this article: Lincoln Center, Anthony Tommasini, Alice Tully Hall, Allan Kozinn, Eugene Onegin, Imogen Cooper, Metropolitan Opera House, La rondine, and Olivier Messiaen
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New York Times | March 20, 2008
Classical Music/Opera Listings - New York Times
Full reviews of recent music performances: nytimes.com/music. ★ 'A BIRD IN YOUR EAR' AND 'FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS' (Friday and Saturday) The Bard College Conservatory is presenting an ambitious double bill of one-act operas. There will...
In this article: Anthony Tommasini, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House, Tristan und Isolde, Carnegie Hall, New York City Opera, Tosca, and The Gambler
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New York Times | February 29, 2008
Mark Morris - New York City Opera - King Arthur - Dance - New York Times
...lacking in sense, or utterly unrelated to Britain. It is a kind of free-floating fantasy, akin in mood to Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's "Four Saints in Three Acts," a condensed version of which Mr. Morris also set to dance. But if "Four...
In this article: Mark Morris, John Dryden, King Arthur, Henry Purcell, Arthur, London, Isaac Mizrahi, Merlin, and New York City Opera
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Four Saints in Three Acts is an opera by American composer Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein. Written in 1927-8, it contains about twenty saints, and is in at least four acts.
The subject was agreed on at Thomson's suggestion and the libretto as delivered can be read in Stein's collected works. The opera focuses on two sixteenth century Spanish saints—the former mercenary Ignatius of Loyola and the mystic Teresa of Avila—as well as their colleagues, real and imagined: St. Plan, St. Settlement, St Plot, St. Chavez etc. Thomson decided to divide St. Teresa's role between two singers, "St. Teresa I" and "St. Teresa II", and added the master and mistress of ceremonies (Compère and Commere- literally, the "godparents") to sing Stein's stage directions.
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