Four Saints in Three Acts

...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

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

...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

...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

...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

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

...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

...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

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

...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