The Mother Of Us All at The Metropolitan Museum

Gig Alerts | Feb 4, 2020

Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: The Mother Of Us All
at The Metropolitan Museum, Feb. 8, 11, 12, 14
Tickets: $115. Shows at 7PM.

In 1947, the American composer Virgil Thomson and the trailblazing novelist and poet Gertrude Stein collaborated on an opera called The Mother Of Us All. It’s a remarkably progressive work, based on the life of Susan B Anthony, but this being Gertrude Stein, the storytelling is a mix of fact and fiction, and the opera can present as a kind of hallucinatory pageant. It’s very rarely performed, but its story of breaking gender constraints feels relevant again and it’s coming to the Met. Not the Met opera, but the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

That’s an excerpt from The Mother Of Us All, by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson. It starts Sat., Feb. 8 at the Met Museum in the Charles Englehart Court, and runs through the 14^th.

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