FULL THE LAST MILE Short Film USA 1992

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Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Last Mile  
• Composer: Puccini Giacomo  
• Libretto: Terrence McNally  
• Venue & Opera Company: New York  
• Recorded: 1992
• Type: Movie
• Singers: Bernadette Peters, Nathan Lane, Tony Goldwyn, Paul Sorvino, Bill Irwin
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Paul Bogart  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: PBS  
• Date Published: 1992  
• Format: DVD
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House a soprano is preparing for her debut in the opera Tosca. The stage manager gives her encouraging advice. She is visited by her “tenor for the evening”. Equally terrified and nervous yet excited, she thinks fondly of her brother, who died from AIDS. He appears to her in her dressing room as a ghostly apparition.

The Last Mile is a short comedy-drama filmed play written by Terrence McNally and directed by Paul Bogart for Public television’s Great Performances 20th Anniversary Special (1992). The 15-minute film aired on American Public television stations in October 1992. The play concerns the hopes and fears of a soprano making her Metropolitan Opera debut.