Leonard Bernstein Born: 25 August 1918, Lawrence, Mass. Died: 14 October 1990

(U.S. Opera Home Page)

• Trouble in Tahiti, (12 June 1952, Waltham, MA)
• A Quiet Place, (17 June 1983, Houston)

• On the Town (musical, 1944)
• Wonderful Town (musical, 1953)
• Candide (operetta, 1956)
• West Side Story (musical, 1957)
• Mass (theater piece, 1971)
• 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical, 1976)

One of the most important American musical figures of the twentieth century, as theater and concert composer, conductor, and writer; Bernstein's musical theater works often merge the worlds of broadway and opera, as in his "Broadway Operetta," Candide.

A Quiet Place (complete opera, incorporating Trouble in Tahiti). ORF Symphony Orchestra/Bernstein, 1986. Compact disc: Deutsche Gramaphone 419 761 2.

Trouble in Tahiti on The Bernstein Century: Trouble in Tahiti/Facsimile. Brown, Butlet/Bernstein (released) 1999. Compact disc: Sony 60969.

Trouble in Tahiti. Cortese, cond. 1999. Compact disc: Newport Classics 60969.

"What a movie" from Trouble in Tahiti, on The World So Wide, Dawn Upshaw 1998. Compact disc: Nonesuch 79458.