The Emperor Jones

[papoocanada]

interesting score. by the way this is the OPERA not the play, it was performed 8 times by the Met in the 1933-34 season with Tibbett.

[jackielynhudson]

Do anyone have a website or a link where I can watch the PLAY??? I need to watch that and The Hair Ape (also by Eugene O'Neill) by Tuesday. Please reply ASAP.

[b3autifu1Di5a5tr]

This. Is. Awful.

Really!?

The Emporer Jones is a PLAY not an OPERA. You credit a musical director for composing the score to this? Really? Cause it doesn't take much talent or creativity for this. This is the product of handing a play to a bunch of actors, just telling them to sing the lines "if that makes sense" and then telling someone to hit some random notes on the piano. O'Neil had no intentions on this being an opera, and there is honestly no creative value to what's been done here.

[AulicExclusiva]

@b3autifu1Di5a5tr This is an OPERA, based on O' Neill's play, with music by Louis Gruenberg (1884-1964). It was premièred at the Metropolitan Opera on January 7, 1933, with the famous American baritone, Lawrence Tibbett, as Brutus Jones. Eugene O' Neill was then very much alive and the whole thing was done, of course, with his consent and participation. YOU know NOTHING and should keep your ignorant mouth SHUT.

[antjuanoden]

PERFECT.

[Laffington]

This is great. But nothing compares to the actual theatre going experience. It would be interesting to compare the different take on the character. Compare and contrast this performance with that of Paterson Joseph and Paul Robeson.