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FULL BLUE MONDAY (Gershwin) New York 2013 Alyson Cambridge, Chase Taylor, Clayton Mathews, Lawrence Craig
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Blue Monday
- Composer: Gershwin George
- Libretto: Buddy DeSylva Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Cotton Club, New York City, ON SITE OPERA
- Recorded: June 2013
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Blue Monday (Opera à la Afro-American) was the original name of a one-act “jazz opera” by George Gershwin, renamed 135th Street during a later production. The English libretto was written by Buddy DeSylva.
Though a short piece, with a running time of between twenty and thirty minutes, Blue Monday is often considered the blueprint to many of Gershwin’s later works, and is often considered to be the “first piece of symphonic jazz”[1] in that it was the first significant attempt to fuse forms of classical music such as opera with American popular music, with the opera largely influenced by Jazz and the African-American culture of Harlem.