Perfect Lives

An opera for television

Perfect Lives — Plot

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".

• Release date
• February 16, 1984
• Runtime
• 175 min
• Genres
• TV Movie, Music
• Director
• John Sanborn

Perfect Lives — Cast

Robert Ashley "R" Narrator

“

“Blue” Gene Tyranny Buddy "The World’s Greatest Piano Player"

J

Jill Kroesen Isolde

D

David Van Tieghem "D" The Captain of The Football Team / Chorus