Fall of the House of Usher - libretto
Artikelnummer
CH49700
Kompositör
Glass Philip
Textförfattare
Yorinks Arthur
90 kr
Libretto, engelsk och tysk text.
Baserad på en historia av Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe’s famous horror story has fascinated poets, dramatized and composers for over a century. Poe hints at much, but states hardly anything at all. Is the story real, or is it a hallucination? What are the relationship between the narrator (William), his friend Roderick Usher, and Roderick’s dying sister, Madeline? Has she been buried alive, or is it a demon from hell who takes such a spectacular revenge at the end? And is the vast house in which they live a living malignant entity? Incest, homosexuality, murder, and the supernatural hang in the air, but then again, such things may exist only in the imagination of the audience.