False Love / True Love

Nils Vigeland's chamber opera False Love / True Love, based on Jane Eyre, premiered in 1992 in London (Almeida Theatre), finally gets a CD release:

Jane Eyre
Nils Vigeland
EMF Media, EM162

This collection of Nils Vigeland's music is dramatic and elegant!
'False Love / True Love' (2001) is a chamber opera in two acts based on two scenes from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The work features two characters (Jane Eyre and Rochester), and consists of two pivotal scenes between these protagonists: the meeting between them immediately following their unfulfilled marriage ceremony, and their first meeting after many years of separation. Scored for a piano trio with two vocal soloists, this work treats with musical sophistication and grace the intimacy of dialogue. (...)
Featured performers are Amy Goldstein, soprano; Brad Carswell, baritone; the Locrian Chamber Players; and Jonathan Faiman, piano.

Listen to these MP3 excerpts:
False Love/True Love
25" Nocturne
Two Days

Categories: Jane Eyre, Music, Opera