The Mother of Us All is an opera by Virgil Thomson to a libretto by Gertrude Stein. It chronicles the life of Susan B. Anthony, one of the major figures in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States. In fanciful style, it brings together characters, fictional and non-fictional, from different periods of American history. The opera premiered on 7 May 1947 at Columbia University's Branders Matthews Hall with soprano Dorothy Dow as Susan B. Anthony.

If one measure of an opera's lasting significance is its ability to stand up under a wide variety of stagings, ''The Mother of Us All'' would seem to qualify as one of the durable ones. In the 36 years of its existence, this second collaboration by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein has become one of the most frequently performed and most variously produced of modern operas. It is not only nostalgically melodious from start to finish, but is also the carrier of a thoroughly up-to-date theme: women's rights.

Profilo: American writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, born February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA, died July 27, 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. She spent most of her life in France. Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein - The Mother Of Us All (Album).

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Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts. Modernism and Americana: A Study of 'The Mother of Us All'". Ars Musica Denver 2, no. 1 (Fall): pp. 24–29. Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism. New York: Random House, 1998; ISBN 0-679-44139-5 (cloth); reissued in paperback, University of California Berkeley Press, 2000; ISBN 0-520-22353-5.

In 1934, Virgil Thomson made Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts into an opera. Her second Opera The Mother of Us All also played on the music by Virgil Thomson. In Brewsie and Willie (1946), Stein wrote about the young American servicemen she met during the German occupation of France. Most of Gertrude Stein’s work did not reach a mass audience because she never meant to be a commercial writer. Her deep black eyes and solemn face reveal her sturdy character while her work is a reflection of her personality, profoundly deep with an ironic sense of humor.

The Virgil Thomson Award Committee was struck by the strong personality and profile of the moving vocal work by Anna Weesner in My Mother in Love and Mother Tongues. Her originality set her apart. Composer Anna Weesner wins Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music – American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s The Mother of Us All, a fanciful opera about Susan B. Anthony, will be staged at a Hudson, . hall where Anthony spoke. Virgil Thomson Foundation.

Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France. Gertrude Stein, the youngest of a family of five children, was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (merged with Pittsburgh in 1907)to upper-class German Jewish parents, Daniel and Amelia Stein. Her father was a railroad executive whose investments in streetcar lines and real estate made the family wealthy. 'It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), . The Mother Of Us All, Last Operas and Plays, Rinehart (1949) ''Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them s. '