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E.M. Forster’s classic novel “A Room with a View” became an award-winning film in 1985. Thanks to two University of Houston music professors, the comedic tale of a woman torn between passion and societal conventions found another home on the opera stage. UH’s Edythe Bates Old Moores Opera Center will kick off its latest production of “A Room with a View” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, in the Moores Opera House. The opera will be performed in English with English surtitles. Buck Ross, the center’s director, wrote the libretto and Robert Nelson, professor of composition and music theory, composed the musical score. Their combined energies have translated the whimsical romance of Forster’s book into a musical extravaganza. “This has always been a big, lush romantic story, so it’s a natural fit for an opera,” Ross said. Ross and Nelson debuted “A Room with a View” at UH in 1993. The opera tells the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a well-to-do Englishwoman who journeys to Italy and unexpectedly finds love with George Emerson, a young man lacking in social status, but rich in the ways of romance. “The opera follows the book very closely,” Ross said. “Forster’s novel relies on dialogue rather than descriptive passages, so it lends itself to dramatic adaptation.”
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