Resultado de búsqueda
Synopsis. Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called “the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s”.
19 de abr. de 2022 · Perfect Lives is populated with myriad characters revolving around two musicians - "R", the singer of myth and legend, and his friend, Buddy, "The World's Greatest Piano Player". They have come to a small town in the Midwest to entertain at the Perfect Lives Lounge.
19 de may. de 2022 · ‘Perfect Lives,’ which premiered on UK television, Channel 4, in 1984, is a TV Opera originally commissioned by Kitchen, New York. The opera itself is composed of seven, thirty-minute vignettes, that follow characters from the Corn Belt and their interaction with two out-of-town musicians.
PERFECT LIVES. An opera for television by Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley’s television opera “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al, in the American Midwest. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called a comic opera about reincarnation.
27 de jul. de 2023 · Perfect Lives is, in Bob’s words, a “comic opera about reincarnation,” and ostensibly tells the story of a lounge singer and his best pal (Ashley as the singer, and the luminary Blue “Gene” Tyranny as Buddy, the greatest piano player in the world) rolling into a small Midwestern town, meeting many colorful characters, and getting roped into a bank robbery in which all the money will ...
Perfect Lives has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s." At its center is the hypnotic voice of Robert Ashley. His continuous song narrates the events of the story and describes a 1980's update of the mythology of small-town America. Perfect Lives is populated with myriad characters revolving around two ...
Robert Ashley’s television opera “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al, in the American Midwest. One of the definitive compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called a comic opera about reincarnation.
