[DOC] [TLE] Regina (opera) - Wikipedia [PAR] Regina is an opera by Marc Blitzstein, to his own libretto based on the play The 
Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman. It was completed in 1948 and premiered the next 
year. Blitzstein chose this source in order to make a strong statement against 
capitalism. In three acts, the musical style has been described as new American 
verismo ... Brenda Lewis, Birdie in the 1949 cast, now took the lead as Regina. [DOC] [TLE] THEATER - A Musical Version Of 'Little Foxes' - NYTimes.com [PAR] May 15, 1988 ... THEATER; A Musical Version Of 'Little Foxes' ... Mark Blitzstein's musical version 
of ''The Little Foxes,'' Lillian Hellman's 1939 play, was a commercial casualty on 
Broadway in 1949, lasting seven weeks. ... The director, Arvin Brown, clearly 
perceives ''Regina'' as a theatrical display piece, and indeed he... [DOC] [TLE] ON THE RECORD: At Long Last, Regina | Playbill [PAR] Aug 8, 2010 ... In his 1949 musical drama Regina, Marc Blitzstein uses music and lyrics to 
weave a ... Blitzstein started with Lillian Hellman's strikingly effective ... Consider 
that moment in the play when Horace's bottle of heart ... Hellman's 1939 drama 
was only ten years old when Blitzstein's version reached Broadway. [DOC] [TLE] Regina Restored (Tommy Krasker) - The Marc Blitzstein Web Site [PAR] Blitzstein's opera Regina was commissioned by Serge Koussevitsky and the ... A 
musical adaptation of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play The Little Foxes, the work 
evolved ... Throughout 1948 and 1949, Hellman sent lengthy missives to 
Blitzstein ... accorded this revival prompted the company to mount a new version 
in 1958. [DOC] [TLE] Cast Album: Regina (1949) | The Singing Critic [PAR] Aug 6, 2013 ... Regina is Marc Blitzstein's theatrical opera based on Lillian Hellman's play The 
Little Foxes. ... on Broadway in 1946 and was subsequently given its own film 
version in 1948. ... The trend continued into the 1950s with Leonard Bernstein's 
operatic-infused musical Candide and Frank Loesser's sung-through... [DOC] [TLE] Southern inhospitality: Utah Opera's 'Regina' is based on Lillian ... [PAR] Jan 11, 2009 ... Composer Marc Blitzstein and playwright Lillian Hellman were kindred spirits. ... 
While Blitzstein wrote incidental music to two of Hellman's plays, their ... a new, 
distinctly American musical genre, Blitzstein is today relegated to a footnote in 
music history. ... "Regina" premiered on Broadway on Oct. 31, 1949. [DOC] [TLE] Lillian Hellman - Gvsu [PAR] Jun 30, 1984 ... Four Plays by Lillian Hellman (New York: Modern Library, 1942). ..... with Bette 
Davis in the lead, and in 1949 a musical version, Regina, with... [DOC] [TLE] Regina - Pacific Opera Victoria [PAR] Apr 15, 2008 ... But considered as a work written in 1949, Regina was first seen in a ... Lillian 
Hellman and Marc Blitzstein knew that these venomous ... 4. Musical Styles in 
Regina ... Evolution of Regina from Broadway Play to Hollywood Movie to .... 
Version for Scottish Opera restored by Tommy Krasker and John Mauceri. [DOC] [TLE] Bard festival skillfully revives Blitzstein's 'Regina' The three-act work ... [PAR] Aug 2, 2005 ... Premiered on Broadway in 1949, this three-act opera misses none of the 
sociological bite of its source material - Lillian Hellman's play, The Little ... Thus, 
Regina can be as sharp and swift as non-musical theater, particularly ... Pfaff 
provides a skeletal version framed by predatory-looking vines and a rear... [DOC] [TLE] The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 1949 - TIME [PAR] Regina (written & composed by Marc Blitzstein; produced by Cheryl Crawford in 
association with Clinton Wilder) sets Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes to music. [DOC] [TLE] Vision of 'Regina' Restored : Marc Blitzstein's operatic adaptation of ... [PAR] Mar 10, 1996 ... In Lillian Hellman's play "The Little Foxes," heroine Regina Giddens and her ... It 
took Blitzstein, who had composed the 1938

Question: "Regina" was a 1949 musical version of this Lillian Hellman play
Answer: "The Little Foxes"