Theater and Opera
- A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 play that is famously set in the city of New Orleans and the city itself plays a major role in the play.
- A Streetcar Named Desire, 1995 opera
- Manon Lescaut, opera by Giacomo Puccini based on the Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost) novel. The last scene (Act IV) is set in New Orleans, then a French colony, where Manon dies in Des Grieux's arms.
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Famous quotes containing the words theater and/or opera:
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself—a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)