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- Philip Glass
Appomattox (2007)
- Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc (World)
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera
Libretto (English) by Christopher Hampton.
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera.
- 2(pic).2(ca).2(Ebcl)+bcl.2(cbn)/4.3(E Flat Trumpet).2+btbn.1/2perc/hp.pf(cel)/str
- SATB
- Principals - 4 Sopranos, 2 Mezzo Sopranos,3 Tenors, 4 Baritones, Bass-Baritone, 2 Bass
- 1 hr 45 min
- Libretto by Christopher Hampton
- English
Programme Note
CAST
Soprano Julia Dent Grant/Viola Liuzzo
Soprano Mary Custis Lee
Soprano Julia Agnes Lee
Soprano Mary Todd Lincoln/Lady Bird Johnson
Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Keckley/Coretta Scott King
Mezzo-soprano Mrs. Dorsey/Viola Jackson
Tenor T. Morris Chester/Cager Lee
Tenor Edward Alexander/Cartha DeLoach
Tenor Ely S. Parker
Baritone Gen. Ulysses S. Grant/Nicholas Katzenbach
Baritone Gen. Robert E. Lee/Edgar Ray Killen
Baritone John Rawlins/George Wallace
Baritone Wilmer McLean/J. Edgar Hoover
Bass-baritone Abraham Lincoln/Lyndon B. Johnson
Bass Gen. Howell Cobb/James Bonard Fowler
Bass Douglass/Martin Luther King
Chorus of union and conf. soldiers; citizens of Richmond & Appomattox; slaves and women
Roles from the chorus:
Tenor A young man
Tenor & Bass Two freed slaves,
Tenor A brigadier
Bass A naval officer
Baritone Voice of a confederate soldier
Bass A captain
Bass Old Man in Richmond
SATB Four civil rights marchers
SYNOPSIS
The brutal American Civil War is drawing to a close. Three scenes unfold simultaneously as Julia (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant), Mary Custis (Mrs. Robert E. Lee) with her daughter Agnes, and Mary Todd Lincoln with her seamstress Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave, separately express their anxieties, then jointly voice their foreboding about the suffering that is imminent.
Soprano Julia Dent Grant/Viola Liuzzo
Soprano Mary Custis Lee
Soprano Julia Agnes Lee
Soprano Mary Todd Lincoln/Lady Bird Johnson
Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Keckley/Coretta Scott King
Mezzo-soprano Mrs. Dorsey/Viola Jackson
Tenor T. Morris Chester/Cager Lee
Tenor Edward Alexander/Cartha DeLoach
Tenor Ely S. Parker
Baritone Gen. Ulysses S. Grant/Nicholas Katzenbach
Baritone Gen. Robert E. Lee/Edgar Ray Killen
Baritone John Rawlins/George Wallace
Baritone Wilmer McLean/J. Edgar Hoover
Bass-baritone Abraham Lincoln/Lyndon B. Johnson
Bass Gen. Howell Cobb/James Bonard Fowler
Bass Douglass/Martin Luther King
Chorus of union and conf. soldiers; citizens of Richmond & Appomattox; slaves and women
Roles from the chorus:
Tenor A young man
Tenor & Bass Two freed slaves,
Tenor A brigadier
Bass A naval officer
Baritone Voice of a confederate soldier
Bass A captain
Bass Old Man in Richmond
SATB Four civil rights marchers
SYNOPSIS
The brutal American Civil War is drawing to a close. Three scenes unfold simultaneously as Julia (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant), Mary Custis (Mrs. Robert E. Lee) with her daughter Agnes, and Mary Todd Lincoln with her seamstress Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave, separately express their anxieties, then jointly voice their foreboding about the suffering that is imminent.
Scores
Act II