A tame and lowly `Wuthering Heights'

The Boston Globe, March 11th, 1993

WUTHERING HEIGHTS Opera by Carlisle Floyd, presented by the Boston Lyric Opera in the Emerson Majestic Theatre last night (repeats March 12, 14, 16). In reviving Carlisle Floyd's "Wuthering Heights," the Boston Lyric Opera has not rescued an overlooked masterpiece. But it has drawn attention to a work of music theater that might well be viable in a better performance than the Lyric mustered. Floyd is a man of the opera house and he has found a convincing operatic structure for Emily Bronte's novel. The language, much of it drawn directly from the novel, is simple and vivid; there are strong ch...

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