Overview
Character Name
Ellen Orford
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Role Size
Lead
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Soprano
Vocal Range
High Note: A♯5/B♭5
Low Note: D3
Vocal Technique
operatic
Time & Place
an english fishing village, 1830s
Analysis
According to the libretto, “She is a widow of about 40. Her children have died, or grown up and gone away, and in her loneliness she has become the Borough schoolmistress. A hard life has not hardened her. It has made her the more charitable.” Good-hearted and caring, she
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