A multi-dimensional performance combining poetry, music, images and text in a complex and intoxicating meeting of two musical icons: Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass.

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Composed by Philip Glass and adapted from Cohen’s 2006 poetry collection Book of Longing, this genre-defying work starred Richard Piper (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) and featured four soloists, soloist ensemble, eight instrumentalists and live graphic imagery. Described as "part-song-cycle, part cabaret, part-installation" Book of Longing is a work that explores romance, biography, balladry, the dharma, limericks and rhymes.

 

Sold Out at ​Fed Square: "an audacious, magnetic and convention-busting performance".

Conducted by

CARLO ANTONIOLI
MSO Cybec Assistant Conductor 2022

 

Directed by

LINDA THOMPSON

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with

RICHARD PIPER as the voice of Leonard Cohen

EMILY BURKE, soprano

DIMITY SHEPHERD, mezzo soprano

MARTIN BUCKINGHAM, tenor

CHRISTOPHER TONKIN, baritone

with

Caitlin Toohey, soprano*

Genevieve Droppert, mezzo soprano*

Alexandra Amerides, contralto*

Callum Warrener, tenor*

Daniel Felton, baritone*

*ACOCo Young Artist

 

Visuals by

ALICE EDY

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Presented in partnership with

The Wheeler Centre

and 

Fed Square