Four Saints in Three Acts (1934)

An Opera to be Sung

WORDS

Gertrude Stein

MUSIC

Virgil Thomson

SCENARIO

Maurice Grosser

PRODUCTION

John Houseman

CHOREOGRAPHY

Frederick Ashton

SCENERY

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

DANCERS

Caro Lynn Baker, Elizabeth Dickerson, Mable Hart, Floyd Miller, Maxwell Baird, Billie Smith

FIRST PERFORMANCE

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