Wuthering Heights (song) 18, within a few hours late at night on 5 March 1977. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights". She then read the book and discovered that she shared her birthday with author Emily Brontë. "Wuthering Heights" is sung from the perspective of the "Wuthering Heights" character Catherine Earnshaw, pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. It quotes Catherine's dialogue, including the chorus lyric "Let me in! I'm so cold!" and "bad dreams in the night". Critic Simon Reynolds described it as "Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody".
Wuthering Heights (1951 opera) very positive critical attention. It has since been transferred to CD (Unicorn-Kanchana UKCD 2050). A live performance by the Orchestre National de Montpellier under Alain Altinoglu, with Daniel Boaz and Laura Aikin (Festival de Radio-France-Monpellier, July 2010) was released in October 2011 by the French label Accord/Universal. The 3-CD set received the Diapason d'Or-Découverte and the Diamand award from French magazines "Diapason" and "Opéra". "Wuthering Heights" quotes various themes from Herrmann's earlier film scores: Some themes from the opera were used in Herrmann's later scores: Wuthering Heights (1951 opera) Wuthering Heights is the sole opera written by Bernard Herrmann. He