Dick McGann
The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose's irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbors, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions. Broadcast on BBC Two on New Years Day, 1993, this production was performed by the English National Opera and conducted by James Holmes.
Man at Del Mar
Después de muchos años sin verse, dos hermanos vuelven a encontrarse. Tras la pérdida de la granja familiar, Joe y Frank Roberts siguieron caminos diferentes. Joe, casado y sheriff de un pueblecito de Nebraska, vive abrumado por el trauma que le produjo matar a un hombre en defensa propia. Frank, por su parte, es un veterano de Vietnam, de carácter violento y agresivo, que muestra su resentimiento viviendo al límite de la ley.
