Written during the most exasperating period of his compositional career, Leonard Bernstein’s opera A Quiet Place reflected all of his then current excesses – be they conducting commitments, prescription medications, Ballantine Scotch and his inability to say ‘no’. This more recent rewrite for chamber-sized forces (less than 20 musicians are employed here compared to the 70-piece ensemble that Lenny originally sought) achieves much. Gone is the earlier ‘flashback’ using his early-50s one acter Trouble in Tahiti, though many musical references remain, and this works for the better along with other judicious prunings by composer Garth Sunderland. The opera in this new incarnation is now cut down to just over 90-minutes in duration.