The concept of adapting a multifaceted Regency novel into a play, let alone an opera is a daunting one. There is a unity of place (and indeed the novel is all about place, the enclosure of the eponymous park), which follows through into the music and the libretto. Hence, there could not then be a more propitious place to premiere the newly orchestrated version of Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park as the closing opera of the inaugural season of the new Grange Festival. Just ten miles away, across beautiful Hampshire countryside, stands the magnificent edifice of The Grange, which remarkably is also equidistant from Steventon, her birthplace. All polymer and holograms it is certainly not Regency style … but it does feature that epitome of Regency style, Jane Austen, who died two hundred years ago this summer, in a little house tucked in alongside Winchester College. Last Thursday, the Bank of England issued the new ten-pound note. E.By Jonathan Dove, libretto Alasdair Middleton, adapted from Jane Austen Grange Festival at The Grange, Hampshire 16 th and 17 th September Building on the excitement over this initiative, Arts on the Grounds expanded to include outdoor performance programs featuring modern interpretations of classical theater and site-specific productions designed for the Clark’s five acres of beautiful gardens, public spaces, outdoor “rooms,” and lawns.įor more information, please visit Image: Watercolor illustration by C. Theatre Works, which brought to the library’s drawing room a dramatic version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, as well as Pierre Corneille’s The Liar.
The Clark launched the collaboration in 2012–13 with L.A. UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library seeks to create intersections between literature and the performing arts though its Arts on the Grounds program. For wheelchair access, please notify the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies in advance at 31.
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The original piano four-hand orchestration will be played by Victoria Kirsch and Douglas Sumi. Originally composed to be performed in great houses, the story of poor Fanny Price’s struggle to find happiness among her rich relatives will come to life in the beautiful Clark Drawing Room. Join us for the Southern California premiere of a new opera based on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, with music by renowned British composer Jonathan Dove to a brilliant libretto by Alasdair Middleton. presented by Opera UCLA, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Saturday, June 3 Sunday, June 4 Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11. There are four performances of the opera over the course of two weeks:
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