Genre: Music
Runtime: 148 min
Average vote: 0
Release date: 1993-01-01
Director: Barrie Gavin
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.
Janice Cairns
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Anna Maurrant
Lesley Garrett
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Rose Maurrant
Kevin Anderson
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Sam Kaplan
Mark Richardson
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Frank Maurrant
Daniel Ison
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Willie Maurrant
Terry Jenkins
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Abraham Kaplan
Richard Halton
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Harry Easter
Keel Watson
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Henry Davis
Philip Gould
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Dick McGann
Caroline O'Con...
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Mae Jones
Anthony Mee
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Lippo Fiorenti...
Christine Bunn...
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Greta Fiorenti...
Meriel Dickins...
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Emma Jones
Shelagh Squires
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Olga Olsen
Harry Nicoll
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Daniel Buchanan
Yvette Bonner
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Jennie Hildebr...