A Quiet Place (opera)
Opera with music by Leonard Bernstein to a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Quiet Place is a 1983 American opera with music by Leonard Bernstein and a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth. It is a sequel to Bernstein's 1951 opera Trouble in Tahiti.
A Quiet Place | |
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Opera by Leonard Bernstein | |
Librettist | Stephen Wadsworth |
Language | English |
Premiere |
In its original form, A Quiet Place was in one act. Bernstein spoke of it as having a Mahlerian four-section structure.[1] The premiere, conducted in Houston by John DeMain on June 17, 1983, was a double bill: Trouble in Tahiti, intermission, A Quiet Place.
In its three-act form, act 2 largely consisted of Trouble in Tahiti in flashback. This form appeared in 1984, with John Mauceri conducting in Milan and Washington. It was refined in 1986 for Vienna, where a recording was made and the composer himself conducted.