The Dangerous Liaisons
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The Dangerous Liaisons is an opera in two acts by Conrad Susa to an English libretto by Philip Littell, based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. First performance: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 1994.
The opera has set numbers with recitative and spoken dialog. It is set in France in the 18th century and was also aired on television in 1994 under the direction of Gary Halvorson; starring Frederica von Stade, Thomas Hampson, and Renée Fleming[1]
The Dangerous Liaisons is not part of the standard operatic repertory. There is a recording of it. It is sometimes performed.