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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“The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.”
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