LibriVox: Hernani

I recorded about 3 words for this project.  LibriVox

Hernani

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Translated by Camilla Dufour Crosland (1812 - 1895)

First performed in 1830, this was once described as a play on which the "romantic school centered its
hopes". The Classicists at the time felt that this play was a threat to everything they deemed important in literature. Set in 16th century Spain, Hernani is a tale of romance and intrigue.

Described in 1912 thusly: "The performance was permitted, so tradition says, in the expectation that the play would discredit the romantic school once and for all. The principal actress, Mlle. Mars, was outraged by Hugo’s imagery, and refused point blank to call Firmin [actor] her ‘lion, superb and generous.’ A goodly claque, drawn from the ateliers and salons, brought the play to an overwhelming triumph, and for fifteen years the dominance of the romantic school was indisputable." ... and "Hernani passes from one cataclysmic experience to another; the whole of life seems to depend on the blowing of a hunting horn.".

This play inspired the opera "Ernani" by Giuseppe Verdi, premiered in 1844. - Summary by Jake Malizia

Cast list:
Hernani: Greg Giordano
Don Carlos: Jake Malizia
Don Ruy Gomez de Silva: Alan Mapstone
Doña Sol de Silva: Jenn Broda
The King of Bohemia: Algy Pug
The Duke of Bavaria: James R. Hedrick
The Duke of Gotha: Michael Broomhill
The Duke of Lutzelbourg: redrun
Don Sancho : Adrian Stephens
Don Mathias: John Payton
Don Ricardo: Larry Wilson
Don Garcie Suarez: James R. Hedrick
Don Francisco: Andrew Gaunce
Don Juan de Haro: KHand
Don Gil Tellez Giron: Sandra Schmit
Doña Josefa Duarte: Lynette Caulkins
A Mountaineer: ToddHW
A Lady: Michele Eaton
First Conspirator: Adrian Stephens
Second Conspirator: John Payton
Third Conspirator: Andrew Gaunce
A Conspirator: ToddHW
The Page: James R. Hedrick
Stage Directions: Sonia
Editing: ToddHW

Genre(s): Romance

Language: English

Librivox: Love and Friendship

 I worked a bit on this one (voice of the Innkeeper).

Love and Freindship (Dramatic Reading)

Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)

Love and Freindship [sic] is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels Austen became known for were not published until she was in her thirties, she was an active writer from the age of twelve, frequently composing epistolary works such as Love and Freindship. Austen eventually compiled 29 of her early writings in three notebooks that became known as the Juvenilia and that she called “Volume the First”, “Volume the Second”, and “Volume the Third”, including Love and Freindship in “Volume the Second”. Love and Freindship is set contemporaneously to Austen’s writing and consists of a series of fifteen letters, most of which are written from the perspective of the protagonist, Laura, who recounts her extraordinary personal history to her friend Isabel’s daughter. The novel satirizes sentimental novels, which were a popular genre at the time. Austen’s early works are frequently published with the original spelling errors unaltered, a practice that is particularly conspicuous in the case of Love and Freindship because of the spelling error in the title. Austen dedicated this novelette to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, who is believed by literary critics to have inspired multiple characters in Austen’s writings, including the titular character in the novel Lady Susan. In 2016, Lady Susan was adapted into a film that borrowed the title Love & Friendship, albeit with the spelling corrected. - Summary by David Purdy

Cast List:

Laura: Irene Rubio

Sophia: Devorah Allen
Edward Lindsay: Larry Wilson
Isabel: rosefiasco
Augusta: Jenn Broda
Gustavus: Tomas Peter
Polydore: David Purdy
Claudia: Michelle Purdy
Sir Edward: Adrian Stephens
Augustus: redrun
Philippa: Norah Nelson
Lord St. Clair: Algy Pug
Janetta: deaspoke
MacDonald: ToddHW
Servant: Greg Giordano
Postilion: Rich Brown
Innkeeper: John Payton
Narrator: James R. Hedrick

Genre(s): Dramatic Readings, Epistolary Fiction, Humorous Fiction

Language: English