- Title
- Four Saints in Three Acts
- Availability
- Available
- Category
- Opera
- Instrumentation
- Solo Voices: S, Mz, A, T, Bar, B; 2s, 2A, 2T, Bar, B; Mixed chorus [SATB]; Dancers; 1.1.2.1-2.1.1.0-2 perc-accordion.harm-str
- Duration
- 90'
- Publisher
- G. Schirmer Inc.
- First Publisher
- Music Press
- Premiere
- World: Avery Memorial Hall, Hartford, CT, February 8th, 1934 (Friends and Enemies of Modern Music (dir. John Houseman; cond. Alexander Smallens))
- Edition/Catalog #
- MUSA 18
- Versions
- Copyright
- ©2006 G. Schirmer
- Year Composed
- 1928
- Year Published
- 1948
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- n/a
- Meckna Number
- W1
- Notes
Opera in four acts with two prologues
Libretto by Gertrude Stein
Scenario by Maurice Grosser
- External Links
- Sales Link (at publisher)
- Related Persons
- Friends and Enemies of Modern Music (Production)
- Gertrude Stein (Librettist)
- Maurice Grosser (Scenario)
- John Houseman (Director)
- Alexander Smallens (Conductor)
- Florine Stettheimer (Scenery & Costumes)
- Frederick Ashton (Choreographer)
- Original Cast and Role Information
Original Cast and Role Information
Role Premiere Cast Fach St. Teresa I Beatrice Robinson-Wayne Soprano St. Teresa II Bruce Howard Countertenor St. Ignatius Loyola Edward Matthews Baritone St. Chavez Embry Bonner Tenor St. Settlement Soprano Compère Abner Dorsey Bass Commere Altonell Hines Mezzo-soprano St. Stephen Tenor St. Plan Randolph Robinson Bass St. Sarah Mezzo-soprano Chorus of Named Saints (Act II) St. Absalom Tenor St. Cecilia Soprano St. Lawrence Bass St. Celestine Mezzo-soprano St. Jan Bass St. Anne Mezzo-soprano St. Answers Mezzo-soprano St. Genevieve Soprano St. Eustace Baritone St. Vincent Speaking Role St. Phillip Baritone St. Placide Bass Tenor Solo Tenor - Related Works
Four Saints in Three Acts - Excerpts
Excerpts and works related to "Four Saints in Three Acts"
"Saints' Procession" (from Act III) for chorus (SATB) and pf. with solos for mezzo-soprano and bass (1928; G. Schirmer), or for men's chorus (TTBB) (ms.; See W72)
"Pigeons on the Grass Alas" (from Act III) for baritone and piano or for baritone and orchestra (1934; G. Schirmer; See W124)
Arranged by Paul Reuter as "Four Saints: an Olio for Chamber Orchestra," rev. version by Thomson (1984; G. Schirmer; See W59)
Also formerly available in abridged (45 min.) version (G. Schirmer)
