A Streetcar Named Desire by Previn, Wed 28 Feb 2007, From (2007/2007), Directed by Stein Winge, Conductor Sian Edwards, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

As part of the opera evening on Radio Stephansdom or via live streaming, you can watch the live recording of the world premiere (San Francisco Opera, 1998) with Renée Fleming as Blanche DuBois under the musical direction of the Listening to composer Sir André Previn. Sir André Previn, best known in Europe as a conductor and pianist, has been involved in more than 50 films as a composer and arranger and has received four Oscar awards. For his first opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, he resorted to the drama of the same name by Tennessee Williams, which saw 844 performances in a row after its premiere in 1947 on New York's Broadway and at the latest in 1951 through Elia Kazan's filming with Vivien Leigh and Starring Marlon Brando became a classic. Janice Watson & Teddy Tahu Rhodes