Communities Broken and Remade: Jane Austen’s Persuasion–the Novel and Opera
Location
Neely Black & White Dining Room
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
30-10-2010 3:00 PM
Description
Austen’s final novel, Persuasion (1817), enacts a culture clash between two communities: the aristocracy and the new meritocracy of the British Navy. The novel’s heroine, Anne Elliot, is caught between these two communities: a world dying and one in the process of being born. Douglas Murray and Rachel DeVore Fogarty discuss how they are presenting these communities in their opera in progress, being written and based on Austen’s text. Brief musical examples will be presented--and most of them premiered.
Recommended Citation
Murray, Douglas and DeVore Fogarty, Rachel, "Communities Broken and Remade: Jane Austen’s Persuasion–the Novel and Opera" (2010). Humanities Symposium. 3.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2010/2010/3
Communities Broken and Remade: Jane Austen’s Persuasion–the Novel and Opera
Neely Black & White Dining Room
Austen’s final novel, Persuasion (1817), enacts a culture clash between two communities: the aristocracy and the new meritocracy of the British Navy. The novel’s heroine, Anne Elliot, is caught between these two communities: a world dying and one in the process of being born. Douglas Murray and Rachel DeVore Fogarty discuss how they are presenting these communities in their opera in progress, being written and based on Austen’s text. Brief musical examples will be presented--and most of them premiered.
Comments
Convo: AL