{"id":12499,"date":"2024-02-12T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12499"},"modified":"2024-02-12T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:03:36","slug":"opera-based-kurt-cobain-premieres-la-philharmonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/02\/12\/opera-based-kurt-cobain-premieres-la-philharmonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Based on Kurt Cobain Premieres at the LA Philharmonic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ROH. (Photo: Camilla Greenwell)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented the US premiere of Oliver Leith\u2019s opera \u201cLast Days.\u201d The opera is based on the synonymous film<\/a> by Gus Van Sant with a libretto by the artist Matt Copson<\/a>. It features the story of the last days of a protagonist named Blake\u2019s life, loosely based on Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain<\/a>, as he descends towards suicide.<\/p>\n

Digging deeper:<\/strong> \u201cLast Days\u201d was conducted by the composer and conductor Thomas Ad\u00e8s and co-directed by Matt Copson and Anna Morrissey. In typical LA fashion, costumes were provided by Balenciaga. The opera also features a pre-recorded track of the art house pop star Caroline Polachek<\/a>, for whom Copson has directed music videos, singing operatically in a way that Leith refuses to categorize as ironic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Final word:<\/strong> While \u201cLast Days\u201d provides audiences with a look at the mundanity and beauty of the everyday, the audience at the LA Phil\u2019s premiere was anything but mundane. Ludwig Van sources reportedly spotted the full Boygenius<\/a> supergroup in attendance, as well as Polachek, Gus Van Sant, the film\u2019s Kim Gordon, Beck, and other glitterati. Turns out the stars of LA go to the opera, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Composer Oliver Leith\u2019s opera \u201cLast Days\u201d based on a Gus Van Sant film premiered at the Los Angeles Philharmonic last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3,80],"tags":[392,391],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/02\/Last-Days-Los-Angeles-Philharmonic-.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12501,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions\/12501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12499"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}