Herrmann's Wuthering Heights in Minnesota next year

The Minnesota Opera is filling the gap of their delayed The Garden of the Finzi-Continis with Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights in April 2011, as many news outlets report today:

The company is replacing it with another piece that boasts a movie tie-in, "Wuthering Heights." Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights" features music by Alfred Hitchcock's favorite composer, Bernard Herrmann ("Psycho," "Vertigo"). The final production of the season, it opens next April. For ticket information, call 612-333-6669. (Chris Hewitt, Pioneer Press)

So, finally it wouldn't be in 2014!

The Minnesota Public Radio, however, didn't get it so accurately, though:

It will be replaced by a production of "Wuthering Heights," based on the classic Charlotte Bronte novel. (Euan Kerr)

Yeah, sure.

Not leaving the stage yet, as The Fall River Herald News includes the following:

There was plenty of drama taking place in Norwell this weekend and a group of Matthew J. Kuss Middle School students were happy to be in the middle of it.
The Kuss Theater Arts Program captured a gold medal at Saturday’s Massachusetts Middle School Drama Guild Festival held at Norwell High School.
Program Director Charles Jodoin said 34 Kuss students competed against seven other middle schools to receive the honor. He said the students were judged on aspects such as overall performance, characterization of the character being portrayed and technical aspects of the performance.
The honor was bestowed on the group for their production of the play “Jane Eyre: Life at Lowood.”
“This is an awesome accomplishment,” Jodoin said. “Since the beginning of the program we’ve always expected to take the troupe to festivals and competitions and this group really lived up to the expectations.”[...]
The drama program has been working on “Jane Eyre: Life at Lowood” since January putting in about 10 hours a week. He said a public performance of the play will be held at the school on June 4 and 5 along with a one-act play titled “East of the Sun and West of the Moon.” (Will Richmond)

Publishers Weekly mentions Laura Joh Rowland's forthcoming Bedlam: The Further Adventures of Charlotte Brontë in an article about real people turned into fictional sleuths.

Laura Joh Rowland, who's written more than a dozen novels starring fictional 17th-century Japanese investigator Sano Ichiro, reinvented Charlotte Brontë in The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë (Overlook, 2008), in which the author of Jane Eyre fights accusations of plagiarism and hunts a killer loose in London. Brontë faces a Jack the Ripperesque serial killer in the sequel, Bedlam: The Further Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë (Overlook, May). (Jordan Foster)

The book is coming out next week (May 13th). Stay tuned for our review of it in the coming days!

The Christian Science Monitor reviews a few children's books and warns,

If you’re an orphaned British governess working at a rural manor with dark goings-on and your name is not Jane Eyre, I’m probably going to find you a pallid imitation. (Yvonne Zipp)

Which is a good declaration of intentions as far as we know.

A couple of weird mentions in the press:

From Forbes:

I say "beep," but that doesn't do onomatopoeic justice to the noise. There are no consonants in this unpleasant sound, yet neither is it the wild "EEEEE!" of Gothic fiction--which would be annoying, but at least it would evoke the Brontë sisters rather than fully warmed ramen noodles. (P.J. O'Rourke)

From BBC Sport and a live cricket match commentary:

2114: Still raining, it's not looking good to be honest, the cane fields beyond the Providence Stadium look bleaker than the moors in Wuthering Heights...

And now for a few news items in brief: The Globe and Mail quotes from a letter by Charlotte Brontë, Allie is Wired hasn't heard that Ed Westwick is out of the new Wuthering Heights Pproject and The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that handwriting expert Harvey Altes has a copy of Wuthering Heights in his office.

Three blogs for today: Dandelions & Singularities posts about Villette, Life as I see it writes about Wuthering Heights and Complete & Unabridged discusses the possible reasons behind the current shift from Austen adaptations to Brontë adaptations. And YouTube user 202Hunter taks us on a walk around Haworth.

Categories: Books, Fiction, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Opera, Theatre, Wuthering Heights