New Brontë Operas in September

Broadway World informs of the full programme of productions in the 2023 Grimeborn Opera Festival, at the Arcola Theatre. A couple of the new productions are big (Brontë) news.

The first production of John Joubert's Jane Eyre opera:

Green Opera presents

Jane Eyre

By John Joubert, libretto by Kenneth Birkin after Charlotte Brontë

6 September – 9 September 2023

After a triumphant run of Bluebeard’s Castle at Grimeborn 2022 (***** British Theatre), Green Opera, the first environmentally-sustainable opera company, returns to Grimeborn with the first stage production of John Joubert’s moving and dynamic adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. Featuring a diverse cast in a dynamic new staging, this production explores the enduring struggle for freedom in a world that refuses to accept the individual.

And a whole new chamber opera after Polly Teales's Brontë: 

Keynote Opera in association with Docklands Sinfonia presents the premiere of

Brontë. The Opera

Lisa Logan’s Opera based on the play by Polly Teale

September 12-Septeber 16

Directed by Katharina Kastening

Conducted by Alex Ingram

The world premiere of a compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontë sisters – based upon an acclaimed play by Polly Teale. In 1845, Branwell Brontë returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sisters write… Polly Teale’s powerful play, adapted as an opera by composer Lisa Logan, evokes the real and imagined worlds of the Brontës, as their fictional characters Jane Eyre, Rochester, Cathy, Nelly and Heathcliff come to haunt their creators.