Wuthering Heights
(1957-58)A musical drama in a prologue and three acts
Duration: 130'
Music Text
Libretto by the composer, after the novel by Emily Brontë (E)
Scoring
2S,M,4T,Bar,B; chorus
2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).2-2.2.2.0-timp.perc(1):SD/cyms/
susp.cym/gong-harp-strings
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Opera
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Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
16/07/1958
Sante Fe, New Mexico
Irving Guttman, director / Santa Fe Opera / John Crosby
Press Quotes
"Wuthering Heights has audience appeal... The music illustrates the events which take place around the classic scenes between the two lovers. The couple has everything which makes for great opera: a wealth of emotions, passion, poetry. And set in a continual vocal-dramatic high tension..."
Freie Presse
Subjects
Recommended Recording
Florentine Opera Company
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Mechavich, conductor; Georgia Jarman; Kelly Markgraf; Heather Buck
Reference Recordings
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