Wuthering Heights
(1957-58)Libretto by the composer, after the novel by Emily Brontë (E)
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
Abbreviations (PDF)
Boosey & Hawkes
Opera
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Sante Fe, New Mexico
Irving Guttman, director / Santa Fe Opera / John Crosby
"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

Florentine Opera Company
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
John Mechavich, conductor; Georgia Jarman; Kelly Markgraf; Heather Buck
Reference Recordings