An opera based on the novel was produced by Sadler Wells in London in 1958.
The libretto was written by Patrick Terry, manager of the Covent Garden Opera Company; the music was composed by John Gardner. The production was only moderately successful, largely because of the somewhat dissonant score. As might be expected, the opera focuses almost completely on the artist's life in Tahiti. It is seldom revived.
More successful was a cinematic version of the novel released in 1943. In this treatment, George Sanders played Strickland, with Herbert Marshall as the narrator. It, too, takes place largely in the South.....
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