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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.
Aug 25, 2022 · “Everything about Burroughs became this existential question, about writing one’s way out – the protagonist-artist being the hero – while touching on aspects of cancel culture’s extremes on one hand and the psychology of karma on the other hand,” says Waldman. “It is an investigatory opera, not one that strives to make you have an ...
Oct 5, 2022 · David T Little’s Black Lodge, with a libretto by legendary poet Anne Waldman, received its premiere at the Philadelphia Film Center over the first weekend of October as part of Opera Philadelphia's Festival O22 and the 2022 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. The 70 highly stylized minutes were a happy delirium of overwhelm, never mind the ...
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Jan 3, 2024 · Commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects and created alongside poet Anne Waldmann, the work premiered in October 2022 at Opera Philadelphia in a film production by Michael Joseph McQuilken. OperaWire recently spoke to Little about the process of creating the Grammy-nominated work.
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.
The Grammy-nominated William S. Burroughs-inspired opera and movie, Black Lodge, with music by David T. Little and libretto by Waldman, premiered at Opera Philadelphia in 2022. Patti Smith has called Waldman’s album SCIAMACHY with cover and interior art by Pat Steir, 2020: “Exquisitely potent, a psychic shield for our times.”
The opera, featuring music by David T. Little and a libretto by Anne Waldman, existed first, with the film’s story written and directed by Michael Joseph McQuilken. It draws on the work of David Lynch, as well as that of William S. Burroughs. It’s hard to describe the plot, so I refer to the program:
