Based on Jane Austen’s novel, Mansfield Park is the story of Fanny Price, a Cinderella-like heroine, who quietly negotiates her way through the moral perils of early nineteenth century high society, from landscape gardening and amateur theatricals to balls and arranged marriages, and wins the hand of the man she has loved all her life. Jonathan Dove is one of today’s most successful composers of opera and his setting of Mansfield Park brings “impeccable vocal writing and wonderful ensembles that sparkle with style and wit.”
