Usher House is a 2014 opera by Gordon Getty to the composer's own libretto based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story "The Fall of the House of Usher". The staged world premiere of the opera took place in June 2014 at the Welsh National Opera and was later performed by the San Francisco Opera. It was performed as a pair with his opera The Canterville Ghost at the Centre for Contemporary Opera in New York in August 2017.[1]
Recording
edit- Christian Elsner (tenor), Benedict Cumberbatch (speaker), Lisa Delan (soprano), Phillip Ens (bass), Etienne Dupuis (baritone); Gulbenkian Orchestra, conductor: Lawrence Foster, 1 SACD Pentatone
References
edit- ^ CCO Opens 35th Season with Premieres of Two Getty Operas. Broadwayworld, Opera News Desk, August 3, 2017: "The New York premieres and world premiere production of Gordon Getty's "Scare Pair," a double-bill by the San Francisco-based composer, pairs his two one act-operas – Usher House and The Canterville Ghost – together for the first time on October 19 and 21 (7:30pm) at The Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College