A Quiet Place

Release Date: 1986-04-01

Overview: "A Quiet Place" is an American opera in three acts, with music by Leonard Bernstein to a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth. The work is a sequel to Bernstein's 1951 short opera Trouble in Tahiti. In its initial form A Quiet Place was in one act; the premiere, on June 17, 1983, was a double bill: Trouble in Tahiti, intermission, A Quiet Place. In its three-act form, which appeared in 1984, Act Two of A Quiet Place largely consists of Trouble in Tahiti in flashback. This is a German Television broadcast of the 1986 Vienna State Opera production, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Rating: 4 / 10

Cast

Wendy White

as Dinah

Chester Ludgin

as Old Sam

Beverly Morgan

as Dede

Peter Kazaras

as François

Jean Kraft

as Susie