Four Saints in Three Acts with Stephanie DePrez

Opera is an opera is an opera is an opera: This week, soprano and comedian Stephanie DePrez joins us to discuss Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s  modernist 1934 gem Four Saints in Three Acts, including what it’s like to sing a work when you get the vibes but not the text, the star-studded (and slightly problematic) history of this work’s premiere, and pigeons on the grass.

Additional topics include: Jesuit theater education, Pete Davidson, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, and ecstatic visions.

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