Argento, Dominick: Miss Havisham's Fire (1979, rev.1996) 113'
Opera in two acts

Music Text  
Libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour, after Dickens's `Great Expectations' (E)

Scoring
Major role: colS; minor roles: 2S,2M,A,2T,Bar,BBar,2B,speaker; chorus 2(I=picc,II=afl).2(II=corA).2(I=ssax,II=bcl).2(II=dbn)-3.2.2.1- timp.perc(2):vib/t.bells/glsp/susp.cyms/tam-t/BD/whip/tgl/tamb/ steel plate/steel anvil/bell tree/tpl.bl/wind chimes-harp-pft(=cel)- harm or org-strings


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World Premiere
3/22/1979
New York City Opera, New York, NY
H.Wesley Balk, director / New York City Opera / Julius Rudel


World premiere of version
6/3/2001
St. Louis, Missouri
Saint Louis Opera / Beatrice Jona Affron


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