Minnesota Opera's Wuthering Heights Cast

The much expected staged version of Bernard Herrmann's opera Wuthering Heights to be produced next year at The Minnesota Opera already has an (incomplete) cast:

Wuthering Heights
by Bernard Herrmann

April 16, 17, 19, 21 and 23, 2011
A gothic romance by a Hollywood legend.

Wuthering Heights is based on Emily Brontë's gothic romance. Unable to bridge the chasm of social class, Heathcliff and Catherine are consumed by a love that can never be, and its legacy haunts the windswept Yorkshire moors. The music of the opera, composed by Hollywood legend Bernard Herrmann, underscores the novel's passion, prejudice and mystery.

Bernard Herrmann was an Academy Award-winning American composer whose unforgettable collaborations include Psycho with Alfred Hitchcock, Citizen Kane with Orson Welles and Taxi Driver with Martin Scorsese. Minnesota Opera's new production of his only opera celebrates the centennial of the composer's birth and is the first major revival of this forgotten masterpiece since it was written in Minneapolis in 1951.

Music by Bernard Herrmann
Libretto by Lucille Fletcher after the novel by Emily Brontë

Conductor: Michael Christie
Stage Director: Eric Simonson
Set Designer: Neil Patel
Costume Designer: Jane Greewood
Lighting Designer: Robert Wierzel
Projections Designer: Wendall K. Harrington

The Cast

Catherine Earnshaw ... Kelly Kaduce
Heathcliff ... Lee Poulis
Hindley Earnshaw, Catherine's brother ... Ben Wager
Edgar Linton, the Earnshaws' neighbor ... Eric Margiore
Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister ... Adriana Zabala
Nelly Dean, the housekeeper ... Victoria Vargas
Joseph, a farmhand ... Rodolfo Nieto
Mr. Lockwood, a neighbor ... Jesse Blumberg
Hareton, Hindley's son ... tba

Not the first Brontë heroine for Kelly Kaduce. She was Jane Eyre in the 2006 St Louis performances of Michael Berkeley's Jane Eyre. Complete information about the cast can be found here.

Categories: Music, Opera, Wuthering Heights