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A ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Virgil Thomson’s Acadian Songs and Dances.
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A ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Virgil Thomson’s Acadian Songs and Dances.
A stylized opera featuring Spanish saints, including Teresa of Ávila and Ignatius of Loyola, along with invented saints. Its four described sections move from Teresa at Ávila to a scene of mountains and a heavenly mansion, a picnic with Ignatius, and the saints reassembled in a monastery garden. The work emphasizes language and sound rather than a conventional narrative.
In Westminster Abbey, Byron’s friends, wife, and sister ask the Dean to permit a statue and the poet’s burial there. The arrival of the statue prompts memories of Byron’s courtship, his incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh, and his exile. Fearing what his memoirs might reveal, they burn the manuscript without reading it. When the Dean learns what they have done, he denies Byron burial in the Abbey. The shades of the poets in Poets’ Corner welcome Byron at the end.
Susan B. Anthony debates politicians and advocates women’s suffrage while the surrounding characters pursue romances and a wedding. After she speaks at a political meeting, the politicians add “male” to the Constitution, provoking a triumphal return home. Years later, the company gathers to unveil her statue, and Susan appears as a ghost to reflect on her life.
A ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Virgil Thomson’s Acadian Songs and Dances.
A stylized opera featuring Spanish saints, including Teresa of Ávila and Ignatius of Loyola, along with invented saints. Its four described sections move from Teresa at Ávila to a scene of mountains and a heavenly mansion, a picnic with Ignatius, and the saints reassembled in a monastery garden. The work emphasizes language and sound rather than a conventional narrative.
In Westminster Abbey, Byron’s friends, wife, and sister ask the Dean to permit a statue and the poet’s burial there. The arrival of the statue prompts memories of Byron’s courtship, his incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh, and his exile. Fearing what his memoirs might reveal, they burn the manuscript without reading it. When the Dean learns what they have done, he denies Byron burial in the Abbey. The shades of the poets in Poets’ Corner welcome Byron at the end.
Susan B. Anthony debates politicians and advocates women’s suffrage while the surrounding characters pursue romances and a wedding. After she speaks at a political meeting, the politicians add “male” to the Constitution, provoking a triumphal return home. Years later, the company gathers to unveil her statue, and Susan appears as a ghost to reflect on her life.