Meditations on love, death, memory, and what remains
Erik Satie’s luminous Socrate, performed by soprano Lily Flynn and pianist Coady Green, offers a serene, translucent meditation on the philosopher’s final hours, a work the composer called a “symphony in white.” Viktor Ullmann’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke, with actor Paul English and Green, transforms Rilke’s prose poem into a hallucinatory wartime monodrama composed in Theresienstadt before Ullmann’s death in Auschwitz. The program concludes with a world-premiere preview of Linda Kouvaras’s The Boarding House, Carlton, 1972: Those that Remain, narrated by Tiriki Onus with baritone Nicholas Dinopoulos on text by Richard Ward, a searing reimagining of memory, violence, and 1970s Melbourne.
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