Name: Black Lodge
Start: 2024-05-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg

Organization

Admin

O. Festival for Opera.Music.Theatre

Beth Morrison Projects

Story, Screenplay and Film Direction

Michael Joseph McQuilken

Producers

Beth Morrison

Jecca Barry

Brian Freeland

Robert Phillip Smith

Executive producer

Thurston Moore

Singer

Timur

The Man

Jennifer Harrison Newman

The Woman

Orchestra

Isaura String Quartet

Instrumentalist

Daniel Corral

Keyboard

Andrew Lessman

Drums

Vocalist

Matthew Setzer

Guitar

David Tranchina

bass

English

Black Lodge

Rotterdam

Netherlands

Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg

Small Hall

Public

Daniela Romina Ruesja

Approved

Black Lodge Little

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.

“Wat is er nodig om onszelf onder ogen te zien? Ga de duisternis in op zoek naar iets moois, mystieks. Maar wees heel voorzichtig met wat je moet weten…”

In een nachtmerrieachtige Bardo, een plaats tussen dood en wedergeboorte, gaat een gekwelde schrijver de confrontatie aan met demonen van zijn eigen makelij op zoek naar ontsnapping. Dit is het uitgangspunt van Black Lodge van componist David T. Little (US) en dichter Anne Waldman. Een gelaagde moderne opera die put uit de complexe mythologieën rond artiesten als William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), David Lynch (Twin Peaks) en anderen. De film is genomineerd voor een Grammy® Award in de categorie ‘Best Opera Recording’. Beleef een wilde reis naar de hel en terug met industrial metal en punk, klassiek strijkkwartet en opera. 

Een unieke ervaring met zowel film als live zang van de veelgeprezen Kazachs-Amerikaanse operazanger Timur (Klaus From Space, O. 2023).

Nederlands

“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…

Set in a nightmarish Bardo, a place between death and rebirth, a tormented writer faces down demons of his own making in search of escape. This is the premise of composer David T. Little and poet Anne Waldman’s Black Lodge — a multilayered modern opera that draws on the complex mythologies surrounding artists like William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), David Lynch (Twin Peaks), and others. A journey into hell and back, Black Lodge fuses industrial metal and punk with classical string quartet and opera to create something wildly vivid and new.

A unique experience featuring both film and live vocals by acclaimed Kazakh-American opera singer Timur (Klaus From Space, O. 2023).

Black Lodge by Little, From (2024/2024), Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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