This evening at 7pm EST, the Met Museum hosts the digital premiere of The Mother of Us All by Virgil Thomson to Gertrude Stein’s libretto about Susan B. Anthony and the women’s suffrage movement.
The production, which was filmed during live performances at the Met’s sculpture court in the American Wing in February, is a collaboration between Juilliard and the New York Philharmonic (and part of the latter’s ongoing Project 19 initiative.
Watch the premiere on Facebook, YouTube, or at the bottom of the Met’s page here.
Louisa Proske, the production’s brilliant director, offers an introduction here:
Filed under: American opera, directors, Juilliard, New York Philharmonic
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