Fortunato : an opera in three scenes (1958) / Miriam Gideon ; edited by Stephanie Jensen-Moulton.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Gideon, Miriam, 1906-1996, composer.

Álvarez Quintero, Joaquín, 1873-1944, author.

Contributor:

Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie, editor.

Series:

Recent researches in American music ; 75.

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Recent researches in American music ; 75

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Standardized Title:

Fortunato. Vocal score

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operas--United States--20th century--Vocal scores with piano.

Operas.

Genre:

Operas.

Vocal scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xv, 126 pages, 3 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2013.

Language Note:

Staff notation.

Summary:

"In 1958 American composer Miriam Gideon (1906-96) completed her only opera, Fortunato, based on the eponymous "tragicomic farce" by the Spanish playwrights Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero (1871-1938 and 1873-1944, respectively). Although Gideon's opera has never received a full performance and has only been available until now in a marginally legible autograph copy of the piano-vocal score, it may be regarded as a central work within Gideon's style and oeuvre and an important American operatic work of the 1950s. In addition to the fully edited piano-vocal score, the edition includes a significant introductory essay that summarizes Gideon's compositional activity during the post-World War II years, her most active period. The essay also provides a context for Gideon's opera by examining attitudes toward women composers in the American 1950s and by placing the opera's main themes into dialogue with recently discovered personal writings by the composer." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Plates

Fortunato. Cast of characters ; plot synopsis ; Scene 1 ; Scene 2 ; Scene 3

Critical report

Appendix: Substitute trio for Scene 3 chorus.

Notes:

Based on the Spanish farce Fortunato, by Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero.

Edited from the holograph in the Miriam Gideon papers, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (call number JPB 04-13).

Includes introduction and critical report.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed December 10, 2018).

Contains:

Libretto based on: Álvarez Quintero, Serafín, 1871-1938. Fortunato.

OCLC:

1079230662

Publisher Number:

A075 A-R Editions, Inc.