Arden Must Die

Arden Must Die (Arden muss sterben) is an opera by Alexander Goehr.

The German libretto was written by Erich Fried, with an English version by Geoffrey Skelton.^[1] It tells the story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife Alice and her lover Mosbie. The libretto draws on two sixteenth-century accounts of the murder, namely the version by chronicler Raphael Holinshed and the anonymous play Arden of Faversham.^[1]

The British première was at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 17 April 1974, conducted by Meredith Davies.^[1]

References

1. Williams, Nicholas. "Arden must Die". In Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Oxford University Press.