as the chorus intones the moral, "The only death in life is the death of love." Performance history The opera has been performed very infrequently since its premiere; in 1997, a production was mounted in New York with the Center for Contemporary Opera. In February 2018, the opera was performed for the first time in the Midwest at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where it was featured in a triple bill of one-act operas alongside Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Gian Carlo Menotti's The Telephone. References Multiple-language operas Operas 1957 operas One-act operas Operas by Mark Bucci