KILTER, ANDROMEDA ANARCHIA, (FOLTERKAMMER) GROWLERS CHOIR and SEVEN) SUNS’ collaborative opera, La Suspendida have released a video for “Song of the Countess – Châtelet sur le toit (Paris)”.
Librettist WILLIAM BERGER comments, “In this segment, María Elena explains the source of her necrophiliac lover Tanzler’s obsession with her in life and in death. She retells his vision of a supposed ancestress, the Countess of Cosel, who told him she’d been sent by the Goddess of Love to promise him an ideal woman – not yet born, but to be created one day from his deepest fantasies. When he met María Elena, he instantly recognized her as the Countess’s promised Ideal. (The colorful life of the Countess, and Dr. Tanzler’s belief that she’d “visited” him with this strange promise, are both historically true). María Elena recounts this story to the Chorus of the Dead, explaining how Tanzler’s obsession with her beyond death is not perverse but divinely ordained. It is a discrete “number” in this largely through-composed score, and follows a Brechtian meter and rhyme form to frame it as a sort of oration to the judges of Eternity.”
Led by progressive jazz metal trio KILTER’s bassist Laurent David, La Suspendida is a collaboration between musicians and artists, including KILTER’s own Kenny Grohowski (IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT), and Ed Rosenberg III, ANDROMEDA ANARCHIA (soprano), the string quartet SEVEN)SUNS, and the GROWLERS CHOIR (comprised of metal vocalists), as well as the librettist WILL BERGER. The musicality of the opera traverses multiple realms ranging from the atonal melodies of new music to the aggressive rhythms of metal.
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Credits:
Libretto by WILLIAM BERGER
Music by KILTER: Ed Rosenberg III, Laurent David, Kenny Grohowski
Produced by Laurent David
Maria Elena: ANDROMEDA ANARCHIA
The Choir Of The Dead: GROWLERS CHOIR
String Quartet: SEVEN)SUNS
Release Details:
Run time 81 minutes
Available in CD and Gatefold Double Vinyl Record
Track Listing:
1. Overture – Death & Transfiguration
2. Limbo – A Place with No Weather
3. Interlude – Arrival
4. Laudes Mortuorum & Roll Call of the Newly Dead
5. A Decision
6. The Ballad of María Elena
7. Arguments at the Gates of Death part 1 – You can’t drag me through your gate
8. Interlude – Innocence
9. Arguments at the Gates of Death part 2 – You don’t remember what flesh is
10. Song of the Countess
11. Interlude – Moments of Stillness
12. Arguments at the Gates of Death part 3 – The hypocrites of the light (Tutti)
13. My Corpse, Your Dungeon
14. Interlude – Climax
15. Afterglow
16. Double Call – Laudes Mortuarum Reprise and Finale
17. Lullabye