The Mother of Us All

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The Mother of Us All (1947) is an opera by Virgil Thomson to a libretto by Gertrude Stein. It chronicles the life of Susan B. Anthony, one of the major figures in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States. In fanciful style, it brings together characters, fictional and non-fictional, from different periods of American history. Susan B. Anthony, sopranoAnne, contraltoGertrude S., sopranoVirgil T., baritoneDaniel Webster, bassAndrew Johnson, tenorThaddeus Stevens, tenorJo the Loiterer, tenorChris the Citizen, baritoneIndiana Elliot, contraltoAngel More, sopranoHenrietta M., sopranoHenry B., bass-baritoneAnthony Comstock, bassJohn Adams (according to the score, “presumably John Quincy Adams”), tenorConstance Fletcher, mezzo-sopranoGloster Heming, baritoneIsabel Wentworth, mezzo-sopranoAnna Hope, contraltoLillian Russell, sopranoJenny Reefer, mezzo-sopranoUlysses S. Grant, bass-baritoneHerman Atlan, high baritoneDonald Gallup, baritoneA.A. and T.T., page boys or... full article at wikipedia
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