Summer

Name: Summer
Brand: Schott Music
SKU: 232033
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opera in two acts

libretto by Joan Vail Thorne

Edition: Performance material

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Description

This opera is set in the early 1900’s in the small town of North Dormer located in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. The novel‘s heroine, eighteen-year-old Charity Royall, is bored with her life in the small town of North Dormer and ignorant of desire until she meets a visiting architect, Lucius Harney. Like the lush summer of the Berkshires around them, their romance is shimmering and idyllic, but its consequences are harsh and real. Wharton‘s prose, her raw depiction of the mountain community where Charity was born, the intrusion into Charity‘s bedroom by her guardian, Lawyer Royall, and Charity‘s rites of passage into adulthood elevate Summer into a study of society, nature, and human needs.

Orchestral Cast

2.1.2.1-2.1.1(btbn).0-timp.2perc(glsp, crot, xyl, vib, bell tree, tri, large sus cym, crash cym, h.h, tamb, s.d, tom-t, b.d, brake d, chimes, high wdbl, low wdbl, tempbl, slapstick, sandbl)-hp-str(6.5.3.3.1)

Cast

Principal: Charity Royall, an 18year old Girl · mezzo-soprano - Lucius Harney, her Lover, an Architect from the nearby town Nettleton · baritone – Lawyer Royall, Charity’s Warden · bass-baritone -
Supporting: Liff Hyatt, Charity’s Cousin · baritone (also: 2nd Man from Nettleton, Bash Hyatt) - Miss Hatchard, an elderly Woman · soprano (also: 1st Woman from Nettleton) - Verena Marsh, 60 year old House Maiden with Lawyer Royall · mezzo-soprano (also: old Mrs Hyatt, Girl from Nettleton) - Ally Hawes, Charity’s School Mate · soprano (also: Wife of Bash Hyatt, 2nd Woman from Nettleton) - Reverend Miles, Reverend from Nettleton and Friend of Mrs Hatchard · tenor (also: 1st man from Nettleton) - Annabel Balch, Lucius Harnell’s Fiancée · soprano (also: Prostitute)

More Information

Title:

Summer

opera in two acts

libretto by Joan Vail Thorne

after the novella by Edith Wharton

Language:

English

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

1999

Duration:

115 ′

World Premiere:

August 28, 1999 · Pittsfield, MA (USA)
Koussevitsky Arts Center
Conductor: Joel Revzen
Original staging: Mary Duncan · Costumes: Helen E. Rodgers · Set design: David P. Gordon
(scenic)

Commissioned work :

Commissioned by Berkshire Opera Company, Sanford H. Fisher, General Director, Joel Revzen, Artistic Director and Edith Wharton Restoration