Black Lodge (Little) Philadelphia 2022
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Black Lodge
- Composer: Little David T.
- Libretto: Anne Waldman, Story & Screenplay by Michael Joseph McQuilken
- Venue & Opera Company: Studio and on location
- Recorded: 2022
- Type: Movie
- Singers: Timur, Jennifer Harrison Newman, Timur & the Dime Museum
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: .operaphila.tv FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Opera Philadelphia:
What does it take to face ourselves? Enter the darkness in search of something beautiful, transcendent. But be very careful what you need to know…
Drawing on the disturbing and complicated mythologies of the surrealist writer William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Black Lodge uses dance, industrial rock, classical string quartet, and opera to take viewers through a Lynchian psychological escape room.
Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making. Forced to confront the darkest moment in his life, he mines fractured and repressed memories for a way out. A woman is at the center of all the writer’s afterlife encounters. She is the subject of his life’s greatest regret, and she materializes everywhere in this Otherworld. The writer cannot detach any thoughts of his life from her.