Marc Blitzstein - Selected Works

Selected Works

See also: Category:Compositions by Marc Blitzstein

• Triple-Sec (1928)
• Garrick Gaieties (1930) — revue — contributing composer (revival of Triple-Sec)
• The Harpies, opera (1931)
• The Condemned (1932, unproduced)
• Parade (1935) — revue — featured songwriter
• The Spanish Earth (1937) — composer with Virgil Thomson
• Julius Caesar (1937) — play revival — incidental music composer
• Pins and Needles (1937) — revue — contributing bookwriter
• The Cradle Will Rock (1938) — musical — composer, lyricist, bookwriter, director, pianist, and actor in the roles of Clerk, First Reporter, and Professor Mamie
• Danton's Death (1938) — play revival — incidental music composer
• Another Part of the Forest (1946) — play — incidental music composer
• Androcles and the Lion (1946) — play revival — incidental music composer
• I've Got the Tune (1938) — radio musical
• The Cradle Will Rock (1938) revival)
• No for an Answer (1941)
• Symphony: The Airborne (1946) — symphony — composer
• Another Part of the Forest (1946) — play — incidental music
• Regina (1949) — opera — composer and orchestrator, librettist
• Let's Make an Opera (1950) — special performance — director
• King Lear (1950) — play revival — incidental music composer
• The Threepenny Opera (1954) — operetta revival — editor of Bertolt Brecht's book and lyrics into English
• Reuben, Reuben (1955) — opera
• Juno (1959) — musical — composer, lyricist and co-orchestrator
• Toys in the Attic (1960) — play — featured songwriter for "French Lessons in Songs" and "Bernier Day"
• Tales of Malamud (2 one-act operas): Idiots First (1963, unfinished, completed by Leonard Lehrman, 1973) and The Magic Barrel (1964, unfinished)
• Sacco and Vanzetti (1964, unfinished opera, completed by Leonard Lehrman, 2001)