The Fall of the House of Usher Usher House La Chute De La Maison Usher San Francisco Opera (2015)

Roderick Usher is the last surviving male member of his family living as a recluse in the ancestral home with his twin sister Madeline She is slowly dying of a disease for which her doctor seems unable or unwilling to find a cause or a cure Roderick begs an old friend to visit Shortly after the friends arrival Madeline is found dead and is buried in a vault beneath the house In an attempt to calm the increasingly distracted Roderick his friend reads to him a medieval romance As the climax of the tale is reached the figure of Madeline appearsshe has been buried alive and has clawed her way out of the vault to find her brother Roderick is overcome by horror and as he and Madeline both confront death the House of Usher collapses around them