Name: The Fall of the House of Usher
Start: 2009-11-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-12-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Kanneltalo

Organization

Soprano

Sanna Heikkinen

Madeleine Usher

Tenor

Tuomas Katajala

Roderick Usher

Baritone

Jussi Ziegler

William

Lassi Virtanen

Physician

Bass

Jari Parviainen

Servant

Conductor

Harri Karri

Stage director

Vilppu Kiljunen

Set designer

Kimmo Viskari

Lighting designer

Helena Roivainen

Suomalainen Kamariooppera

The Fall of the House of Usher

Helsinki

Finland

Aleksanterin Teatteri

Kanneltalo

The Fall of the House of Usher Glass

Public

Approved

According to Edgar Allan Poen Novell

The Fall of the Usher House is a two-act opera for orchestra and soloists (1987), libretto by Arthur Yorinks. 


Poe’s famous horror story has fascinated poets, dramatists and composers for over a hundred years. Poe alludes a lot in his text, but brings out hardly anything. Is the story real or is it a hallucination? What is the narrator’s (William) relationship with his friend Roderick Usher and Roderick’s dying sister, Madeline? Has Madelin been buried alive, or is the demon of hell making a spectacular revenge at the end? Is the great house and community in which they live a perverted nest of evil? Incest, homosexuality, murder, and the supernatural are present in the work, but again, they may only exist in the imagination of the audience.

English

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