Aurora Leigh / Audio performance
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Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Abridged by Temi Rose
AURORA LEIGH - The narrator, a brilliant poet, tells her story from the vantage point of having experienced it all. Read by Temi Rose.
YOUNG AURORA LEIGH - The same brilliant poet as a young woman, tells her story from the vantage point of innocence. Read by Lucy McMichael
ROMNEY LEIGH - An aristocrat and social revolutionary, a committed activist. Read by Jonathan Horvath.
LADY WALDEMAR - Beautiful, graceful, magnificent, selfish. Read by Stephanye Dussud.
MARIAN ERLE - A gentle soul, and strong. Mary, the virgin and Magdalene in one. Read by Michelle Sims.
AUNT LEIGH - Critical, cold, dutiful. Read by Meeni Naqvi. WOMAN IN ALLEY - A horrific person. Read by Howard Pinhasik. SEAMSTRESSES - Read by Meeni Naqvi and Howard Pinhasik. MEN AND WOMEN IN CHURCH - Read by Meeni Naqvi and Howard Pinhasik. MR. SMITH - An elegant, sophisticated gossip. Read by Howard Pinhasik. SIRE BLAISE - Another elegant, sophisticated gossip. Read by Meeni Naqvi. DISTRACTED MAN IN PARIS - Read by Howard Pinhasik. PARISIAN LADY - Spoiled, rich, impossible. Read by Meeni Naqvi. VINCENT CARRINGTON - A painter and friend of Aurora and Romney from childhood. Read by Howard Pinhasik.
Music Credits Aurora Leigh, based on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's novel in verse, Aurora Leigh (1856) abridged and edited to playform by Temi Rose.
Edvard Grieg, Pezzi lirici, Op.12 No.1, Arietta. Alexander Goldenweiser, piano. https://www.liberliber.it/mediateca/musica/g/grieg/op12_pezzi_lirici/ga/mp3/grieg_op12_ga_01_arietta.mp3
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