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FULL THE LADY OF SATIS HOUSE (Jacques Cohen) London 2012 Marie Vassiliou
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: THE LADY OF SATIS HOUSE
- Composer: Cohen Jacques
- Libretto: Jacques Cohen adapted from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: London, UK
- Recorded: August 4, 2012
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Marie Vassiliou
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Piatti Quartet
- Stage Director: Joe Austin
- Stage Designer: Emily Harwood
- Costume Designer: Emily Harwood
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Tête à Tête
- Date Published: 2012
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
“Miss Havisham presented herself to me as the ideal subject – has there ever been a literary character who seems more destined to sing? This woman who, abandoned on her wedding day, resolved to lock herself away retaining all her wedding paraphernalia while she plans her revenge on the male sex seems so absurdly melodramatic, yet at the same time she is like so many of us in that she is her own worst enemy and subsequently the ultimate author of her own tragedy.“
JACQUES COHEN
Introduction Scene/Variation 1 Miss Havisham bemoans her fate and resolves to take revenge
Scene/Variation 2 Young Pip comes to play with Estella and is mocked by her for being common
Scene/Variation 3 Miss Havisham is visited by her avaricious relations, the Pockets
Scene/Variation 4 Pip is apprenticed to the Blacksmith
Scene/Variation 5 Pip comes to Satis House hoping to see Estella but she is away on the continent
Scene/Variation 6 Pip is to be a gentleman and believes Miss Havisham to be his secret patron
Scene/Variation 7 Miss Havisham instructs Pip on how to love Estella
Scene/Variation 8 Miss Havisham fears that Estella now behaves coldly even towards her Interlude/Theme
Scene/Variation 9 and Finale Pip discovers who his benefactor is. Miss Havisham expresses regret