The Fall of the House of Usher

from Philip Glass


The Fall of the House of Usher
Chamber Opera in a prologue and two acts

Libretto

Arthur Yorinks und Philip Glass (nach Edgar Allan Poe)

Premiere

18 May 1988, Cambridge, Massachusetts (American Reportery Theater)

Cast

RODERICK USHER (tenor)
MADELINE USHER (soprano)
WILLIAM (baritone)
THE DOCTOR (Actor)

CHORUS
Diener, Geister, Schauspieler

Place

Somewhere in England

Time

An autum day in the late 19th Century

Composer

Glass, Philip