Name: The Book of Longing
Start: 2022-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-05-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Wheeler Centre

Organization

Singer

Richard Piper

Leonard

Stage director

Linda Thompson

Emily Burke

Soprano

Dimity Shepherd

Mezzo-soprano

Martin Buckingham

Tenor

Christopher Tonkin

Baritone

Caitlin Toohey

Genevieve Droppert

Alexandra Amerides

Contralto

Conductor

Carlo Antonioli

Callum Warrener

Daniel Felton

Australian Contemporary Opera Co

angol

The Book of Longing

Melbourne

Australia

Wheeler Centre

Performance Space

The Book of Longing Glass

Public

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Bass

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

An evening-length work of poetry, music and image based on Leonard's book of 2006.

Humorous self parody, romantic longing, spiritual striving - a sampling of Cohen's poems that touch on romance, biography, balladry, the dharma, limericks and rhymes.

"I wanted the experience of listening to the piece to be similar to what happens when you look through a book of poems but you don't look at it sequentially," he says. "It's a random kind of thing but in the course of time you actually encounter all the different aspects of the piece."

Cohen was once asked, “is the music cabaret, theatrical, or classical?”

He responded “Glassical.”
This multi-dimensional performance combines poetry, music, images and text in a complex and intoxicating meeting of two musical icons: Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass.

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Composed by Philip Glass and adapted from Cohen’s 2006 poetry collection Book of Longing, this genre-defying work stars Richard Piper (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) and features four singers, ensemble, eight instrumentalists and imagery. Described as "part-song-cycle, part cabaret, part-installation" Book of Longing is a work that explores romance, biography, balladry, the dharma, limericks and rhymes.

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Glass is the long-reigning emperor of modern classical music. Cohen spent his career melding pop, folk and Euro-cabaret with his existential-meets-erotic confessional style. Here, they summon the best in each other with a work of feverish passion and wily humour, full of spiritual striving, romantic yearning and witty self parody.

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English

The Book of Longing by Glass, pén 13 máj 2022, -tól (2022/2022), Rendezte Linda Thompson,, Karmester Carlo Antonioli, Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, Australia

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