Rhapsody

Rhapsody
Alina Cojocaru and Steven McRae
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Four Saints in Three Acts (1934)

An Opera to be Sung


Abbreviations:
M Music by
S Scenery by
C Costumes by
D Danced by
FP First performance
NP New production
R Reproduced by
ST Staging (indicates that the ballet was produced in substantially its original form)



Words by Gertrude Stein
M Virgil Thomson
Scenario by Maurice Grosser
Production by John Houseman
Choreography by Frederick Ashton
SC Created by Florine Stettheimer, designed by Kate Drain Lawson

Singers: Commère: Altonel Hines; Compère: Abner Dorsey; St Ignatius: Edward Matthews; St Theresa I: Beatrice Robinson Wayne; St Theresa II: Bruce Howard; St Chavez: Embry Bowner; St Settlement: Bertha Fitzhugh Baker
D Caro Lynn Baker, Elizabeth Dickerson, Mable Hart, Floyd Miller, Maxwell Baird, Billie Smith
FP Presented by The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT, 7 February 1934; by Harry Moses, 44th Street Theater, New York, 20 February 1934; transferred to the Empire Theater, New York, 1 April 1934; revived at the Auditorium Theater, Chicago IL, 7 November 1934