Oliver Leith and Matt Copson’s unorthodox opera draws from Gus Van Sant’s Kurt Cobain biopic, and features overblown costumes by Balenciaga and a starring role from Caroline Polachek
Leith, currently composer-in-residence at the Royal Opera House, was introduced to Copson through their mutual friend, music producer Danny L Harle. They immediately connected, sharing an interest in. Leith composed the score to the libretto – the text of an opera – which Copson wrote. Copson, a visual artist, is also directing. This isn’t the norm for creating an opera, they explain; neither are experts and the pair are familiarising themselves with operatic tradition as they go.
“There’s a cultural lineage that starts with a figure like Kurt Cobain, and has been disseminated through all kinds of media – tabloids at the time, then into this cult film,” says Copson. “It’s a mythology that has been created.– that has heightened the iconography of [him]. Primark making smiley face Nirvana T-shirts has done the same.”
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