Perfect Lives

Perfect Lives

175 mins | Music, TV Movie | Feb. 16, 1984

An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Set in the American Midwest, it is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".

Perfect Lives

175 mins | Music, TV Movie | Feb. 16, 1984

Perfect Lives
An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Set in the American Midwest, it is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".
Producers the kitchen
Original title Perfect Lives
Directors John Sanborn
Writers Robert Ashley

Cast

Robert Ashley

as "R" Narrator

“Blue” Gene Tyranny

as Buddy "The World’s Greatest Piano Player"

Jill Kroesen

as Isolde

David Van Tieghem

as "D" The Captain of The Football Team / Chorus