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::''This article is about the opera by Bernard Herrmann. For the opera of the same name by Carlisle Floyd, see ''Wuthering Heights (1958 opera)''. ''Wuthering Heights'' is the sole opera written by Bernard Herrmann. He worked on it from 1943 to 1951. It is cast in a prologue, 4 acts, and an epilogue that repeats the music of the prologue.〔 The opera was recorded in full by the composer in 1966, but it had to wait until April 2011, the centenary of the composer's birth, for a complete theatrical performance〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Minnesota Opera offers superb production of Herrmann's remarkable 'Wuthering Heights' )〕 (there was an abridged stage production in 1982 and a concert version in 2010). The libretto was by Herrmann's first wife, Lucille Fletcher, based on the first part of Emily Brontë's novel of the same name. Fletcher also interpolated some text from the second part of the novel, and from some unrelated poems by Emily Brontë (such as "I have been wandering through the Green Woods").〔 By the time the work was finished, Fletcher and Herrmann had divorced and he had married her cousin Lucy. Although the work is largely unknown, Lucille Fletcher said it was "perhaps the closest to his talent and heart".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bernard Herrmann )〕 ==Genesis== Herrmann started work on the opera in April 1943,〔(Bernard Herrmann Society )〕 while composing the film score for ''Jane Eyre''〔 (an adaptation of ''Jane Eyre'' by Emily Brontë's sister Charlotte Brontë). It received a boost in 1946, when Herrmann and Fletcher made a visit to the moor country near Manchester, while he was fulfilling conducting engagements with the Hallé Orchestra.〔 There, they visited the Brontë home at Haworth. He completed the composition in Minneapolis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Season Tickets - Minnesota Opera )〕 On the score, Herrmann wrote that he finished the work at 3:45 pm on 30 June 1951.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wuthering Heights (1951 opera)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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