The director, Michael Capasso, comes to rely on the voices, as if this were merely a chamber version of the opera.

The revived chamber version now on Broadway has freed everyone involved from having to pursue operatic pretensions that were only partly realized 36 years ago.

A Baker's Tale for concert band (transcribed from the chamber version, 1987)

But often the chamber version was refreshingly transparent.

However, if you look upon the proceedings as a chamber version of "Milk and Honey" and concentrate on the voices, you'll come out ahead.

Some passages in the opening movement took on an almost Mahler-like quality, something less apparent in the chamber version.

Yet, this original chamber version is seldom performed these days.

So making the chamber version was painstaking work, and far more complex than I had imagined.

A chamber version of this work has been performed many times, although the full score remains unperformed.

"The chamber version was the original," she said.