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Hammill Peter

The Fall of the House of Usher - An Opera by (1991)

Libretto by Chris Judge Smith from the tale by Edgar Allen Poe

The Characters:

THE CHOIR - Sarah-Jane Morris

MONTRESOR - Andy Bell

RODERICK USHER - Peter Hammill

MADELINE USHER - Lene Lovich

THE HERBALIST - Herbert Gronemeyer

THE VOICES OF THE HOUSE - Peter Hammill

Performed, arranged and recorded by Peter Hammill at Sofa Sound

and Terra Incognita

Except: parts of Ms. Lovich's performance, recorded at H.O.M.E. Studios

by Les Chappell.

Mr. Gronemeyer's performance recorded at Outside Studios

by Christoph Matlok


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Lyrics by Hammill Peter

  A Louse Is Not A Home   Act Five   Act Four   Act One   Act Six   Act Three   Act Two   Again   Breakthrough   Candle   Central Hotel   Child   Comfortable?   Curtains   Easy To Slip Away   Empress's Clothes   Faint-heart And The Sermon   Ferret And Featherbird   Film Noir   Fireships   Flight   Fogwalking   Forsaken Gardens   German Overalls   Given Time   Glue   Golden Promises   Happy   Hesitation   His Best Girl   I Will Find You   Imperial Zeppelin (chris Judge Smith)   In Slow Time   In The Black Room   Incomplete Surrender   Jeunesse D'oree   Labour Of Love   Losing Faith In Words   My Experience   No More (the Submariner)   Now More Than Ever   Oasis   Ophelia   Out Oyster   People You Were Going To   Re-awakening   Red Shift   Reprise   Rock And Role   Rubicon   Shingle Song   Sign   Sitting Targets   Slender Threads   Solitude   Stranger Still   Summer Song (in The Autumn)   Sunshine   Tapeworm   The Birds   The Jargon King   The Lie (bernini's St Theresa)   The Spirit   Thunder   Time For A Change (chris Judge Smith)   Time Heals   Traintime   Vision   What's It Worth?   Wilhelmina

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