Herrmann's Wuthering Heights in 2014

A press release from The Minnesota Opera reveals how a new production of Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights is on the works for the 2014-2015 season:

Minnesota Opera announces the creation of Minnesota OperaWorks, a landmark program designed to invigorate the operatic repertoire with an infusion of contemporary works. It is a multi-year, $5.5 million commitment that will energize the company, the community, the industry and the art form. The Minnesota OperaWorks program includes an international coproduction, three revivals of American works and three commissions by American composers:

2014-2015: Revival: Wuthering Heights (Bernard Herrmann)

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune adds:

The program concludes in 2014-15 with an intriguing oddity. Bernard Herrmann, the film composer closely associated with Alfred Hitchcock, set "Wuthering Heights" as an opera. (Graydon Royce)

We thought that the official Heathcliff lookalike was no other than Gordon Brown, but The Scotsman has surprised us with a new and even higher (in rank) incarnation:

In the tradition of great romantic heroes, such as Rochester and Heathcliff, Charles is moody, fallible and has endured periods of great torment. (Dani Garavelli)

Now that Catherine Hardwicke's film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight has been premiered, new Brontë references appear:

Because Meyer, despite her occasional penchant for purple prose, vividly creates a world of gothic, edge-of-danger romance, the kind in which bookish girls have long loved to lose themselves on rainy afternoons. Meyer has said that Edward's name came from Mr. Rochester in Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" and Mr. Ferrars in "Sense & Sensibility." "Jane Eyre," especially, can be seen as an inspiration for "Twilight": the innocent young woman, newly arrived in a strange place and falling in love with a vaguely sinister man. (Moira Macdonald in The Seattle Times)

The wait is finally over for the legions of fans who have been anticipating director Catherine (Thirteen) Hardwicke's adaptation of the first book in Stephenie Meyer's series of novels about a teenage girl (Kristen Stewart) in love with a vampire (Robert Pattinson). Sort of like Wuthering Heights, with fangs. (Glenn Garvin in The Miami Herald)

On the blogosphere: Jerrychicken-The Diary has visited Haworth and Worthwhile Books posts briefly about Jane Eyre 1949.

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