Bernstein's A Quiet Place: silence is golden

It's been a long road to the New York stage for Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place, but has its moment finally come?It was 20 years after his death before Leonard Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place finally got to be performed in New York, the city he lived in for close on half a century. At first sight it's hard to explain the neglect. West Side Story has been packing in punters worldwide since 1957. On the Town has been revived many times. Mass (the theatre piece) wowed London audiences just last Jul...

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