Devil and Daniel Webster
- Douglas Moore
First performance: 1939, New York, NY
With his soul on the line, only one of the greatest orators in American history can get Jabez Stone out of his contract with the devil in Douglas Moore’s American folk opera The Devil and Daniel Webster. From Stephen Vincent Benet’s pen comes the story of New Hampshire’s own Daniel Webster, who was a senator, US Secretary of State, and a lawyer famed for winning many a case before the Supreme Court. At the wedding party of Mr. Stone, Daniel Webster is delighted by his friend’s sudden prosperity. Soon enough, however, a nefarious character named Scratch appears and Webster realizes what has transpired. In a trial that features a jury of the damned and presided over by the judge from the Salem witch trials, Daniel Webster is in for the fight of his life.
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