Emma (Fine, Elaine)

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Publisher. Info. Elaine Fine, in collaboration with Howard Zinn
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Act 1, Sc.3b: Emma and Sasha

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Libretto

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Elaine Fine (2011/8/28)

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General Information

Work Title Emma
Alternative. Title An Opera In Two Acts
Composer Fine, Elaine
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IEF 18
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 acts
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 2005
First Publication. 2008
Librettist Composer
after Emma, 1987 revision, by Howard Zinn (1922–2010)
Language English
Average DurationAvg. Duration 127 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Modern
Piece Style Modern
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus, chamber ensemble [more...]
Cast
  Principals
Emma Goldman, mezzo-soprano
Sasha (Alexander Berkman), baritone
Fedya (Modest Stein), tenor
Johann Most, tenor
Ben Reitman, baritone
Anna Minkin, soprano
Vito, bass-baritone
  Additional characters
Jenny and Rose, sopranos, Dora, mezzo-soprano (factory workers)
Vogel, bass-baritone (factory foreman)
J. Edgar Hoover, bass-baritone
Henry Clay Frick, bass-baritone
Thomas Gregory, tenor
Newspaper reporter, soprano
Woman, soprano
Receptionist, mezzo-soprano
Chorus
workers, strikers, and police
Instruments
clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello, piano, percussion

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  • Emma is a two-act opera based on the play with the same name by Howard Zinn (revised in 1987) about the American Anarchist Emma Goldman (1869–1940). The narrative of the opera is woven from relationships and events in Goldman’s autobiography Living My Life. It is at once a story of a passionately-driven social and political reformer, and the story of a woman torn between her feminist ideals and her vulnerability in matters of love. The action of the opera begins 1887 when Emma is an 18-year-old factory worker in Rochester and ends in 1917 when, at age 48, she is about to be exiled to Russia. The music is mainly tonal with a musical color that often evokes the Yiddish theatre of the early 20th century.