<P> The Fall of the House of Usher (2015), narrated by Christopher Lee, animated short film which is part of Extraordinary Tales </P> <P> Between 1908 - 17, French composer Claude Debussy worked on an opera called La chute de la maison Usher . The libretto was his own, based on Poe, and the work was to be a companion piece to another short opera (Le diable dans le beffroi) based on Poe's "The Devil in the Belfry". At Debussy's death the work was unfinished, however . In recent years completions have been attempted by three different musicologists . </P> <P> Another operatic version, composed by Philip Glass in 1987 with a libretto by Arthur Yorinks, premiered at the American Repertory Theatre and the Kentucky Opera in 1988 and was revived at the Nashville Opera in 2009 . The Long Beach Opera mounted a version of this work in February 2013 at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, Los Angeles . </P> <P> In 2008, a musical theatre adaptation ("Usher") written by two Yale students (Sarah Hirsch and Molly Fox) won the Best Musical award at the New York International Fringe Festival . </P>

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