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Approximate Runtime (hh:mm)
02:00
Number of Acts
2
Musical Style
The music is mainly tonal with a musical color that often evokes the Yiddish theatre of the early 20th century.
Vocal & Musical Forces
Emma Goldman - Mezzo-soprano
Alexander Berman - baritone
Fedya (Modest Stein) - tenor
Johann Most - tenor
Ben Reitman - baritone
Anna Minkin - soprano
Vito - bass-baritone
Additional characters: Jenny, Rose, Dora (factory workers); Vogel (facotry foreman); J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Clay Frick; Thomas Gregory; Newspaper reporter, Receptionist; a chorus of workers, strikers, and police.
Instrumentation: clarinet, trumpet, piano, violin, cello, and percussion.