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Florida Grand Opera – André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire – Elizabeth Caballero, Rebecca Krynski Cox, Hadleigh Adams & Nicholas Huff; directed by Jeffrey Buchman; conducted by Gregory Buchalter

In composing A Streetcar Named Desire, André Previn rose to the rather difficult challenge of creating an operatic adaptation of one of the most iconic of American plays. His score remains mostly within the bounds of twentieth-century late-romanticism, but is rife with allusions to New Orleans’ jazzy, bluesy musical idiom, with dissonant portrayals of its noisy …

Florida Grand Opera – André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire – Elizabeth Caballero, Rebecca Krynski Cox, Hadleigh Adams & Nicholas Huff; directed by Jeffrey Buchman; conducted by Gregory Buchalter Read More »