Wuthering Heights (musical)

Wuthering Heights (musical)

Bernard J. Taylor's musical/operatic version of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights first appeared in 1992 as a studio recording featuring Lesley Garrett, Dave Willetts, Bonnie Langford and other stars of Britain's West End stage. The show has since been translated into six languages from the original English and has been extensively staged in the UK, USA, The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Romania, Australia and New Zealand. In 2008 a production was being planned in Budapest, Hungary, where Taylor's "Much Ado" received its European continental premiere in 2007.

The adaptation had the support of the Bronte Society at Haworth in Yorkshire, whose curator at the time, Dr. Juliet Barker, wrote: "Various other attempts at adapting Wuthering Heights for the stage have been submitted to the Bronte Society in the past but Bernard Taylor's adaptation is the first that I have really approved of and would be prepared to support."

Mark Seaward, Editor of the Bronte Society's magazine, wrote: "Wuthering Heights is an intensely dramatic work, charged with emotion; it is not surprising that many dramatists, choreographers, lyricists and composers have been drawn to recreate it for stage and screen. There have been seven major films between 1920 and 1991 and in addition there has been a ballet (1982), and opera (1967) and numerous adaptations and plays, including several for television — and not forgetting Kate Bush’s song “Wuthering Heights” which topped the charts! Bernard J. Taylor’s work marks the first time that the true spirit and drama of Emily Brontë’s masterpiece has been captured in a musical."

The summer, 1992 edition of Show Music Magazine, USA, reported: "Bernard J. Taylor's big, sweepingly romantic score sustains a feeling of dark passion entirely appropriate for an adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel concerning the ill-fated love between Cathy and Heathcliff."

References

Larkin, Colin; John Martland (1999). "The Virgin Encyclopedia of Stage and Film Musicals". London: Virgin in association with Muze UK Ltd. ISBN 0753503751

External links

* [http://www.bernardjtaylor.com/Heights/Heights.html] , Bernard J. Taylor website


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