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FULL JILTED (Henry, Gough, Peyton-Jones, Pook) London 2012 Melanie Pappenheim, Rebecca Askew
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Jilted
- Composer: Michael Henry Orlando Gough Jeremy Peyton-Jones Jocelyn Pook
- Libretto: Emma Bernard, based on Dickens Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: London, UK
- Recorded: August 4, 2012
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Melanie Pappenheim, Rebecca Askew
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Emma Bernard
- Costume Designer: Stella Cecil
Information about the Recording
- Published by: tete a tete
- Date Published: 2012
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Flam Productions
What if Miss Havisham could sing? How would one of the heroines of Dickens’ novel Great Expectations describe her fate?
Singers Melanie Pappenheim and Rebecca Askew provide the answers in Jilted, their follow up piece to Flam which was performed at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in 2008 and 2009.
Synopsis
Jilted imagines a modern day relationship between one of Dickens’s most striking characters, Miss Havisham, the aging, jilted bride and his own wife, Catherine Hogarth, from whom he separated after 19 years of marriage and ten children.
As Catherine attempts to organize Miss Havisham’s belongings in order to move house, the two women needle, irritate each other, and compete for attention. Their stories are revealed through newly commissioned vocal music as they re-enact the wedding that never happened.
Commissioned by: Bath Literature Festival (2012)
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