David Van Tieghem

A young couple move to the countryside where the wife paints and the husband hopes to make progress in his gene experiments.

An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley's television opera "about" bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al, in the American Midwest. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called a comic opera about reincarnation. (robertashley.org)