NEW ORLEANS IN VIRGINIA Like many operas in the last 100 years, Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire " recently produced by Virginia Opera " is through-composed with very little straight dialogue, declamatory vocals, and text set to music so that the words and sense are both clear (this is also known as Literaturoper). Before Debussy's Pellas et Melisande [...]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:29AM on April 1, 2013