An operatic monodrama, before you ask, is a one-person opera -- and who better to carry a piece like that than Dickens's Miss Havisham? Composer Jacques Cohen wrote The Lady of Satis House back in 2012, in honor of the author's bicentenary. Now it's just had its first recording.
This interview with Cohen gives all the details. And here's where you can find the recording, released by Meridian Records and starring Marie Vassiliou with the Tippett Quartet.
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