First a one-act play by famed playwright Tennessee Williams (1958), then a famous movie (1959), and now, finally, an opera composed by Courtney Bryan — a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. More precisely it is a theater piece created by Daniel Fish with an operatic obligato. Judging from the look of its audience of a Sunday matinee the name recognition “Suddenly Last Summer” derived from the Katherine Hepburn...