Gormenghast (opera) Gormenghast (opera) Gormenghast is an opera in three acts composed by Irmin Schmidt to an English-language libretto by Duncan Fallowell, based on Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast Trilogy". It premiered at the Opernhaus Wuppertal on 15 November 1998. Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast Trilogy", on which the opera is based, is a Gothic tale recounting the rise of the evil Steerpike from a kitchen boy in Gormenghast castle to total domination of the castle and its aristocratic inhabitants. Benjamin Britten had contemplated composing an opera based on the trilogy in the 1950s, but then changed his mind. Irmin Schmidt and his librettist Duncan Fallowell,
Titus Alone Titus Alone Titus Alone is a novel written by Mervyn Peake and first published in 1959. It is the fourth work in the Gormenghast series. The other works in the series are "Titus Groan", "Gormenghast", the novella "Boy in Darkness", and the fragment "Titus Awakes". It was re-edited by Langdon Jones in 1970 using more of the original manuscript. The story follows Titus as he journeys through the world outside Gormenghast Castle, having left his home at the end of the second book. Titus bumbles through a desert for a time, then uses a canoe to row down the river,