Janice Cairns Movies

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually...