Marc Blitzstein

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on2 works

The Threepenny Opera
Juno

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In the literature8 passages

• 169 Regina is an opera by Marc Blitzstein based on Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes . It opened at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway on 31 October 1949, the day before Bernstein wrote this letter.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 4 Marc Blitzstein (1905–64), American composer: a brilliant and innovative musician and a committed Communist. He met a violent death, murdered by three Portuguese sailors in Martinique. Bernstein's student production of The Cradle Will Rock in May 1939 took place less than two years after the famous Broadway opening of the original stagi…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 105 Lina Abarbanell (1879–1963) was an opera singer and casting director. She was Marc Blitzstein's mother-in-law. As a singer, her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on 25 November 1905 was as Gretel in the Met premiere of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel , given in the presence of the composer. She later became a successful casting director…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• 122 Marc Blitzstein was murdered in Martinique by three Portuguese sailors on 22 January 1964.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Gordon, Eric A. (1989): Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein . New York: St Martin's Press.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Marc Blitzstein. © AL HIRSCHFELD. Reproduced by arrangement with Hirschfeld’s exclusive representative, the MARGO FEIDEN GALLERIES LTD., NEW YORK. WWW.ALHIRSCHFELD.COMebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt

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