A Streetcar Named Desire: Andre Previn

For his first-ever opera, Andre Previn turned to one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American theater, Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire.He saw the haunting story of lost youth and innocence in the romantic, shadowy world of New Orleans as ideal material to work on: "It's an opera already" he said, "except that it doesn