Oliver Leith Last Days
Release date:
September 27, 2024
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"Oliver Leith's critically-acclaimed chamber opera Last Days premiered in a sold-out run of performances at London's Royal Opera House in October 2022. In this new studio recording, released on Platoon in June 2024, the stellar cast return to their original roles and the 12 Ensemble led by Jack Sheen anchor Leith's tightly wrought and deeply imaginative score. Based on the cult film Last Days written and directed by Gus Van Sant, this new opera from composer Oliver Leith and librettist Matt Copson plunges into the torment that created a modern myth, as we witness the undoing of Blake, whose self-destructive spiral lies at the heart of the 90 minute opera.
Tracklist:
- 1. "Prologue
- 2. Prologue, Scene 1: Blake in the Wilderness
- 3. Prologue, Scene 2: Home
- 4. Prologue, Scene 3: Wisdom of Birds
- 5. Act 1, Scene 1: Trip Calls
- 6. Act 1, Scene 2: A Package
- 7. Act 1, Scene 3: Blake Listens to Opera
- 8. Act 1, Scene 4: Confusion
- 9. Act 1, Scene 5: Friberg and Friberg
- 10. Act 1, Scene 6: He Said
- 11. Act 1, Scene 7: Chorus of Things
- 12. Act 1, Scene 8: The Magician Story
- 13. Act 2, Scene 1: Trip Calls Again
- 14. Act 2, Scene 2: His Understudy
- 15. Act 2, Scene 3: The Party
- 16. Act 2, Scene 4: The Super-Fan
- 17. Act 2, Scene 5: Blake Cleans the Stage
- 18. Act 3, Scene 1: Blake in the Wilderness
- 19. Act 3, Scene 2: Trip Calls Again Again
- 20. Act 3, Scene 3: P.I. in the Wilderness
- 21. Act 3, Scene 4: The Magic Trick
- 22. Act 3, Scene 5: Intervention
- 23. Act 3, Scene 6: Abandoning Blake
- 24. Act 3, Scene 7: Voyage
- 25. Act 3, Scene 8: Death Part I
- 26. Act 3, Scene 8B: Death Part Ii"
