AN ENTHUSIASTIC audience of Brontë lovers watched the local premiere of an opera based on Wuthering Heights.

Brontë Parsonage Museum worker Charissa Hutchins organised last Saturday’s performance.

Bernard Hermann, the American composer of classic film soundtracks like Psycho and Citizen Kane, wrote the opera in the 1940s.

Charissa said the concert, performed by herself with several other singers, was very well attended.

She said: “The first half, of operatic scenes, was greatly appreciated by the audience.

“Although the cast had very few rehearsals together, the extracts came together well.”