Four Saints in Three Acts Review. David Greenspan Does Gertrude Stein Solo
The 1934 Broadway debut of "Four Saints in Three Acts," a then-shocking and much celebrated avant-garde opera with a libretto by Gertrude Stein and a score by Virgil Thomson, featured an all-Black cast of 46 singers and dancers and actors portraying a stage full of 16th century saints from Spain (both historical and invented), amid a...