Today : World première performance of Gordon Getty's 'Usher House' in Cardiff

Today, the opera Usher House, composed by Gordon Getty will receive its first staged performance at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff (Welsh National Opera), as the first part of a double bill program that also features Claude Debussy's La Chute de la Maison Usher in its British première of a new version completed by Robert Ortledge.

The librettos of both operas are written after Edgar's Allan Poe's famous macabre tale. Lawrence Foster will conduct the following cast : Benjamin Bevan (Roderick Usher), Anna Gorbachyova (Madeline Usher), Jason Bridges (Edgar Allan Poe) and Kevin Short (Doctor Primus). David Pountney directs.

The work has already been recorded in Lisbon in September 2011, and then released by PentaTone classics in 2013.