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Perfect Lives

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Perfect Lives

An opera for television

7.5

2h 55m

1984

“An opera for television”

Synopsis

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives 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".

Director

John Sanborn

TV MovieMusic

pop artconceptual art

Cast & Crew

Robert Ashley

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

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