
Jane Eyre is John Joubert's eighth and final opera which was completed in 1988. A number of Joubert's other operas have literary origins, and Joubert's engagement with the work of the Brontë sisters includes a song-cycle based on Emily's poems.
The novels of the Brontë sisters seem to be a popular source of material for opera composers, Michael Berkeley's opera Jane Eyre was premiered by Music Theatre Wales in 2000, whilst Carlisle Floyd's 1958 opera on Wuthering Heights has just received its first recording (see my review) and film composer Bernard Hermann's Wuthering Heights was written in 1951 but had to wait until 2011 for a complete staged performance.
Full details from the English Symphony Orchestra website.
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