False Love/True Love
Date of Composition: 1992
Duration: 45'
Category: Opera
Instrumentation: Soprano, Baritone, Violin, Cello, Piano
Chamber opera in two scenes adapted by the composer from the novel. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Commissioned by The English National Opera and first performed at the The Almeida Theater, London in July1992.
Scene 1 takes place in Thornfield hall immediately after the revelation just before Jane's wedding to Rochester, that Rochester is already married. She rejects his reasoning that as his wife is insane, there is noimpediment to their marriage, and leaves him.
Scene 2 takes place some years later in a modest cottage near the now destroyed Thornfield Hall. Jane has returned to find Rochester blind ,widowed and desolate. She now accepts his offer of marriage.