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"exceptional...potent and streamlined...a fantastic contemporary exploration and reflection on love"

- Limelight MAGAZINE

LOVE FAIL

LOVE FAIL

BY DAVID LANG

stories by Lydia Davis, and words by David Lang after Gottfried von Strassburg, Beroul, Sir Thomas Malory, Marie de France, Beatriz Contessa de Dia, Thomas of Britain, the yom kippur liturgy and Richard Wagner

an Australian Contemporary Opera Co. (ACOCo) and Monk Parrots USA Co-Production

SHORTLISTED:

EVERYDAY ARIAS FILM FESTIVAL LONDON 2022

HONORABLE MENTION:

TOKYO SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2022

Free live performance / screening - Fed Square ForecourT - MELBOURNE 2021

Australian Premiere - Yarra Valley Opera Festival - online 2020

Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner, and Oscar nominee DAVID LANG was inspired by one of the greatest love stories ever told.

“I thought I might learn something about love if I could explore this in a piece, putting details abstracted from many different retellings of Tristan and Isolde next to texts that are more modern, more recognisable to us, more real"

4 beautiful live voices with simple, haunting percussion, combined with the screening of video footage captured in upstate New York - FED SQUARE becomes a contemporary music-film-opera oasis for everyone on a Melbourne summer night.

Artistic Director Linda Thompson

Video Director Luke Leonard

Music Director Patrick Burns

Featuring

(performing live)

Amelia Jones

Heather Fletcher

Linda Barcan

Alexandra Amerides

Belinda Prakhoff (recording)

With actors (USA)

Josh Landis