Perfect Lives

1984 • 2h 55m • TV Movie, Music

7.5(2 votes)

An opera for television

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

Writers

Robert Ashley

Status

Released