Name: Miss Havisham's Wedding Night
Start: 2014-11-22T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Modern Theatre

Organization

Conductor

Gil Rose

Production

Singer

Heather Buck

Aurelia Havisham

Baritone

Aaron Engebreth

The Lecturer

Odyssey Opera

English

Miss Havisham's Wedding Night

Boston

United States

Modern Theatre

Miss Havisham's Wedding Night Argento

Public

A Water Bird Talk

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MISS HAVISHAM’S WEDDING NIGHT
This monodrama—a musical soliloquy by Dickens’s character Miss Havisham—is set in a room left long untouched, on a night in which Miss Havisham re-enacts all that happened to her when she was left by her lover on their wedding day fifty years before. On the morning of her wedding day, Miss Havisham was dressing for the ceremony when a note arrived from the groom-to-be, jilting her; she smashed the clocks, blocked out the light and vowed never to leave her rooms or remove her bridal attire, complete except for the one shoe still lacking when the note was delivered. Miss Havisham, many years later, spends her time reliving the disastrous day of her intended wedding, something she has obviously been doing for a very long time. She imagines a visit from her fiancé and wonders about what her life would have been like had her relationship turned out differently. She is interrupted by the chambermaid bringing her morning tea and as the curtain falls, Miss Havisham prepares to tell the young Estella all about men. 

A WATER BIRD TALK
A gentleman lecturer addresses a ladies’ club on the subject of water birds. His descriptions of the birds’ peculiar habits come to act as metaphors for his own horribly henpecked life. Parallels are drawn between the gentleman’s life and the birds he discusses: for example, the cormorant—whose young never leave the nest; the male phalarope—a domestically-inclined bird who remains in the nest while the female flits about; the puffin—who, once mated, remains mated for life; and the grebe—a gentle bird that is preyed upon by many enemies; it sinks out of sight when confronted by a threat. The lecturer illustrates his talk with tinted magic-lantern slides derived from J.J. Audubon’s The Birds of America. At the beginning of the lecture his wife reacts in the wings by coughing and clearing her throat. Disgusted with his talk, she soon leaves, and the lecturer digresses, gradually revealing that his miserable existence is due to an overbearing, domineering wife and daughters who constantly make fun of him.

Miss Havisham's Wedding Night by Argento, A Water Bird Talk by Argento, From (2014/2014), Conductor Gil Rose, Modern Theatre, Boston, United States

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