Douglas Perry

"A Quiet Place" is an American opera in three acts, with music by Leonard Bernstein to a libretto by Stephen Wadsworth. The work is a sequel to Bernstein's 1951 short opera Trouble in Tahiti. In its initial form A Quiet Place was in one act; the premiere, on June 17, 1983, was a double bill: Trouble in Tahiti, intermission, A Quiet Place. In its three-act form, which appeared in 1984, Act Two of A Quiet Place largely consists of Trouble in Tahiti in flashback. This is a German Television broadcast of the 1986 Vienna State Opera production, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Portrait du predicateur pentecotiste texan Euliss Sonny Dewey, sincere et passionne, qui aspire a la grandeur, mais controle mal ses passions et ses pulsions. Mortifie de voir son epouse Jessie lui preferer un jeune pretre, il le tue. Contraint de fuir apres cet acte de violence aveugle, l'"apotre" change d'identite et entreprend une nouvelle vie au sein d'une petite communaute du Sud profond dont il rallie les fideles grace a son charisme. Mais un jour, Jessie reconnait sa voix a la radio et previent la police.