Sacco and Vanzetti: A New American Opera by Victor Gluck, Editor-In-Chief

The finished score by Lehrman is 50% music he created based on themes by Blitzstein: pieces of his unproduced 1932 opera "The Condemned" (an earlier work about Sacco and Vanzetti), a march, a cabaret song, a song cycle, a piano piece for mezzo-soprano Brenda Lewis who had starred in Blitzstein's 1949 opera "Regina" (based on Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes"), and portions of 13 songs from "Reuben, Reuben," his 19…

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