Previn - A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)

　　Andre Previn's first opera goes straight to the heart of 20th-century American drama, setting to music the play that encapsulates Tennessee Williams's unique poetic world. Against the background of a sultry, languorous New Orleans, the character of Blanche, the faded Southern belle, takes center stage, in all her heart-breaking vulnerability and desperate strength, like the gre... (展开全部) 　　Andre Previn's first opera goes straight to the heart of 20th-century American drama, setting to music the play that encapsulates Tennessee Williams's unique poetic world. Against the background of a sultry, languorous New Orleans, the character of Blanche, the faded Southern belle, takes center stage, in all her heart-breaking vulnerability and desperate strength, like the great tragic operatic heroines of the past.　　

　　A Streetcar Named Desire
　　opera in three acts
　　Music by Andre Previn
　　Libretto by Philip Littell
　　Based on the play by Tennessee Williams
　　
　　演员表：
　　Blanche DuBois -- Renne Fleming
　　Stanley Kowalski -- Rodney Gilfry
　　Stella Kowalski -- Elizabeth Futral
　　Harold Mitchell (Mitch) -- Antony Dean Griffey
　　Eunice Hubbell -- Judith Forst
　　Steve Hubbell -- Matthew Lord
　　A Young Collector -- Jeffrey Lenz
　　A Flower Woman -- Josepha Gayer