Leonard Bernstein

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

Operas

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

Other Stage Works

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)

About Leonard Bernstein

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.

Discography

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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.

last update: 3 Dec. 2002