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Scott Walker Channels Jean Cocteau for Opera Score
By DJ Pangburn Wednesday, June 08, 2011

One of France's great novelists/filmmakers/playwrights has his words cocooned in Scott Walker's experimental embrace.

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Scott Walker Channels Jean Cocteau for Opera Score
By DJ Pangburn Wednesday, June 08, 2011

One of France's great novelists/filmmakers/playwrights has his words cocooned in Scott Walker's experimental embrace.

Scott Walker is one of the great American artistic treasures. Beginning with the Walker Brothers and progressing to his own solo experimental pop, Scott Walker dropped out of the music scene, but never quite left. He resurfaces from time to time, most recently with the experimental album "The Drift," the making of which was detailed in the documentary "30th Century Man."

Jean Cocteau, on the other hand, was one of France's great literary provocateurs and dandies, who collaborated with everyone from Pablo Picasso and Erik Satie to the Surrealists. Cocteau's film adaption of "Beauty & the Beast" is one of the most atmospheric and surreal films in early 20th century cinema.

Thus it was a stroke of brilliance for ROH2`s Associate Artist Aletta Collins to commission Walker to score "Cocteau Voices – Duet for One and La Voix Humaine." (ROH2 is the contemporary programming arm of the London Royal Opera House.) Collins reimagines Cocteau's "Duet for One Voice" for dancers.

Walker had this to say of the project:

"I must admit to not really being an admirer of Cocteau. I am, however, an admirer of Aletta Collins and her work. So when Aletta asked me to collaborate with the intention of deconstructing the original script for dance, I was grateful for the challenge to help take what is essentially, in my humble opinion, an antiquated piece of misogyny (in this case, woman as willing victim) and try to turn it on its head and use its traces to create something new."

"Cocteau Voices – Duet for One and La Voix Humaine" plays June 17-25.

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Tja, wenn wir das früher gewusst hätten.

Das klingt ziemlich interessant! Leider kann ich nicht nach London fliegen, habe zuviel um die Ohren.

Was ich so gehört habe, soll die Aufführung nicht so toll gewesen sein.

Klar, wir waren ja nicht dabei.

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