Brief Encounter - Radio Broadcast

Futral	Gunn	Josephson
Summers	Caird

"[Previn's] great talent as a composer is to catch you unawares. In Brief Encounter, he hooks you with a melody, turns it on its side and moves on, measure after measure feeling like a brief but significant encounter. The opera will last." - LA Times
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"Feel free to fall madly in love with Brief Encounter." - Houston Chronicle
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"[Brief Encounter] is a skillful musical reimagining of this intimate romance about infidelity." - Wall Street Journal

Principal Guarantor
The Andrew W. Mellon  Foundation

Guarantor
Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation

Grand Underwriter
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Brief Encounter is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for
the Arts

The production of Brief Encounter received funding from OPERA America's Opera Fund

WORLD PREMIERE
An opera in two acts
Music by André Previn
Libretto by John Caird
Based on the play Still Life and the screenplay to the 1945 film Brief Encounter, both by Noël Coward
Sung in English

Houston Grand Opera presents the world premiere of André Previn’s Brief Encounter, based on David Lean’s classic film adaptation of a play by Noël Coward. An honest and compassionate look at emotional infidelity, Brief Encounter stars Elizabeth Futral and Nathan Gunn as Laura and Alec, the couple torn between love and loyalty, and Kim Josephson as Laura’s bewildered husband; Patrick Summers conducts.

Synopsis of Brief Encounter 

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Laura and Alec fall in love  PC  MAC
Alec sings of his dreams  PC  MAC
Laura and Alec meet by the river  PC  MAC

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Colin Ure's Podcast Guide to Brief Encounter Audio (12.4 MB) 

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