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Gordon Getty USHER HOUSE Christian Elsner • Etienne Dupuis Phillip Ens • Lisa Delan HYBRID MUL with Special Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Gordon Getty USHER HOUSE Christian Elsner • Etienne Dupuis Phillip Ens • Lisa Delan HYBRID MUL with special guest Benedict Cumberbatch TICHANNEL Orquestra Gulbenkian Lawrence Foster Gordon Getty (1933) USHER HOUSE Libretto by the composer after “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe Opera in One Act 1 Prologue During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day 1. 23 Edgar Allan Poe Christian Elsner, Tenor (Poe) Roderick Usher, Poe’s host and old friend Etienne Dupuis, Baritone 2 Scene 1 Can it be five years, my friend? 21. 11 (Roderick, Poe, Primus) Doctor Primus, Madeline’s physician Phillip Ens , Bass 3 Where is my lady, o where is she gone? 2. 55 Madeline Usher, Roderick’s sister Lisa Delan, Soprano (Poe) 4 She was my model in writing 4. 08 with special guest Benedict Cumberbatch as the Attendant (Poe, Roderick, Primus, Attendant) 5 Scene 2 Lady Heliane Usher 7. 12 (Attendant, Roderick, Poe) Orquestra Gulbenkian 6 Scene 3 And now it is time to bid our silent farewells 5. 02 conducted by Lawrence Foster (Roderick, Primus, Poe) 7 Scene 4 We are particularly honored to receive our guest 8. 48 Concertmaster: David Lefèvre (Primus, Poe) 8 Scene 5 Roderick, I must speak 16. 16 (Poe, Roderick, Madeline) Total playing time: 67. 00 Recording venue: Grande Auditório of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Sept. 2011 Executive / Recording Producer: Job Maarse Balance Engineer: Jean-Marie Geijsen Recording Engineer: Roger de Schot • Editing: Ientje Mooij Foreword siblings, evil means Primus and the ances- Libretto world. Our clocks are the seasons; they oe’s intergrown house and family of tors, and Madeline becomes the agent of Track 1 run slow. But you will enliven us. What is PUsher are artworks of morbidity and redemption. Prologue the news of Richmond, Boston, London? malaise worthy of the spectacular climax To fit this new design, I have played Georgia, about 1834 And what of our classmates? Do you he devised for them. He has preferred to down Roderick’s ailments, and played up A soft light flickers equally over the sides still hear from Crewe? Has Stone found make mood everything, saving almost all his geniality and hospitality. I show no hint and front of the auditorium. Scrim depicts enough to eat? And what of good Profes- dialogue and explicit action for the closing of his intolerance of light and noise, suggest- a miasmic swampland, moving as if seen by sor Grubbins? Doctor Dodge? They will scene. There is no moral, no tragic flaw, no ing that the lumens and decibels he meets a traveler. The voice of Poe is heard from no not have forgotten such a scholar as Eddie explanation. Poe rather gives us the logic are within his comfort zone, or, if not, that place in particular. Poe! (Motions him to sit. They sit.) of the nightmare, and on this plane his logic he is too considerate a host to wish to seem POE POE is airtight. a burden. Meanwhile, I have done every- During the whole of a dull, dark and (Laughing:) All of them well, Roderick. In Probably the safest course in drama- thing I can to make Madeline endearing, soundless day, in the autumn of the year, the pink. Crewe married Ellen, and Stone tizing this gothic masterpiece would have not threatening. Only the forces of evil fear when the clouds hung oppressively low is fatter than ever. But I, a scholar? A poor been to save both letter and spirit as intact her. This premise can make the close all the in the heavens, I had been passing alone, counterfeit, to any that had known Roder- as possible. In fact, I found myself taking lib- more horrific. on horseback, through a singularly dreary ick Usher for comparison. erties. To start, I have made Poe himself the For better or worse, the deed is done. tract of country, and at length, found RODERICK narrator who lives to tell the tale. More radi- Directors and interpreters are entreated myself, as the shades of evening drew on, Nonsense! cally, I have conceived him and the doomed not to research the original, or biographies within view of the melancholy House of POE siblings as types of an ante-bellum warmth of Poe, for clues to motivation or personal- Usher. Yes, they knew better. You were the real and gallantry which hardly exist anywhere ity. There are no clues outside these pages. Track 2 article. Mine was the dunce cap, as be- in the prose of the real Poe, and must be The director is free to leave out the Scene One tween us two. Yours were the laurels. counter to his purposes here. I have added attendant, and to suggest the ancestors by Glimmering light out. Lights up on Roderick RODERICK other gothic staples – forbidden knowledge, visual effects alone, without actual perform- leading Poe into the library. Not a bit! None could touch you! And it a Faustian pact, ghostly ancestors – and ers. On-stage musicians may be members of RODERICK is not five years! (Sobering:) Yet I know, have shifted all into a tale of good and evil the orchestra or may be left out. Can it be five years, my friend? Is it pos- well I know, my friend, that every day of and redemption. Good means Poe and the sible, Eddie? them must show in my appearance. Let Gordon Getty POE us speak plainly. You see that my letter Roderick, upon my word, it is. did not exaggerate. I hope you are not RODERICK distressed. Yes, my old disorders have Is it possible? Five years! I fear that time worsened. I have become painfully sensi- has not noticed us here in our solitary tive to sound and light. I fear our old rev- els and carousals would be quite beyond fresher. And as for puzzles, I could never for it myself, just as in the old days. You POE me, quite beyond me. (Brightening again:) learn a fraction of your skill in them. You shall judge if they are worth hearing. If Perfect! I come here to cleanse myself But that does not mean that hospitality are still a legend at school. Do you know not, have no mercy! of the modishness of the great cities. I has left Usher House! Indeed, we have that you solve mysteries in my stories, POE welcome the lovers of learning! arranged a surprise tonight in your honor! under another name? New music by Roderick Usher would have RODERICK I will hear no protest! RODERICK brought me here at a gallop, even if our Then you will be at home in Usher House. POE Eddie, what an honor! old friendship were not reason enough. I do not boast. Scholars here have never A surprise? Roderick, you put me to your POE RODERICK been disappointed in their welcome or old puzzles. You review famous crimes in Paris from Done, then! We shall have a ball! in our resources. We Ushers have always RODERICK news accounts, after the Prefecture gives POE been devoted to the old studies, every (Laughing:) No puzzles, Eddie! I have them up as insoluble, and solve them Done! But the guests, Roderick. Where one of us, from father to son beyond learned my lesson many times. Nothing while scarcely stirring from your chair. have you found them? From landfall remembrance. And we are a race of can be hidden from Eddie Poe. I will reveal None who know you will doubt that I onward, I saw not a single person nor collectors. We have spared no pains, no everything in a moment. But first, tell me, mean Roderick Usher. But my stories are habitation. Do they somehow come from expense. We have brought together tracts, Eddie, have we provided well for you? Are only sketches now. They will go no further Savannah? Or (In jest:) do you summon monographs, manuscripts of the greatest your rooms comfortable? Are you rested without your blessing. them up from the depths, like a sorcerer? interest and rarity. Come, Eddie, first let and refreshed? I trust we have not dis- RODERICK RODERICK us look at some of our old favorites! (Both graced ourselves. Guests are valued here, Then you have it! Stories about me by Ed- (With only a moment of embarrassment:) men rise.) Here are manuscripts of Gresset, and scholars above all. If you are tired die Poe! That will put some shine on the Just so, my friend! Just so, in a way. They Swedenborg, the Belphegor of Machiavelli, from your journey, then say but a word family crest! I cannot wait to read them! come from the depths of this house, and the Directory of the Inquisition by Eymeric and the surprise can be put off. But Eddie, I have still said nothing about before that from Savannah and much de Gironne, and look here, Eddie! Here is POE the surprise tonight. farther. Each of them is an old visitor the Vigiliae Mortuorum. Yes, it exists after Tired? Not in the least! From Savannah POE here. Usher House is indeed remote. And all. All these but whet the appetite. Pride to Poole’s Landing by comfortable packet You have not, my old friend, and you must you are too kind as to our landscape. It is of place belongs to our medical archives. this morning, then the ride here through now have pity on me. I fear I am still a desolate. But we have rooms aplenty and The ancients knew secrets that would your picturesque marshland. A few easy child at heart.
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