When Worlds Collide in Jane Austen: Persuasion the novel and the opera

Authors

Douglas Murray, Belmont UniversityFollow
Rachel deVore Fogarty, Belmont UniversityFollow

Abstract

The following is the account of a work in progress: a three-act opera based on Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion (1817). Douglas Murray (the librettist) and Rachel deVore Fogarty (the composer) began their collaboration in April 2010 with a plan to create the first opera based on an Austen book. In their presentation at the Belmont Humanities Symposium in October 2010, they discussed how their poetical and musical decisions—and borrowings from previous works—will transmit Austen’s text to the stage.

Keywords

Humanities Symposium

Recommended Citation

Murray, Douglas and Fogarty, Rachel deVore (2010) "When Worlds Collide in Jane Austen: Persuasion the novel and the opera," Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol1/iss1/13