“The Loser” will be on stage at the Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles.The statement, “Suicide calculated well in advance, I thought, no spontaneous act of desperation,” says a lot about the opera. So begins Thomas Bernhard’s novel “The Loser.”“The narrator, who is never named in the book, retells the story of his friend Wertheimer, who has just committed suicide, and in the process he reveals everything about himself. They both had been promising concert pianists in their youth — among the best in the world — but they had the misfortune of meeting each other as students in a master class of Vladimir Horowitz, in which the young Glenn Gould had also been a participant. The knowledge that they were never going to be as great as Gould wrecked their lives forever,” says the LA Opera website.As per the website, the story is not at all about Gould, Horowitz, or classical music. On one level the novel is an intense tour-de-force of character development, as the narrator tells you more and more about himself and his world, with all the details revealed in no particular order. “In its own confrontational and strangely beautiful way, however, it is also about perfectionism, hard work, optimism or lack of, how we justify our lives to ourselves, and how we learn to appreciate beauty and become alienated from it at the same time,” the website quotes David Lang.“The Loser” by Thomas Bernard used by permission of SuhrkampVerlag AG, Berlin is translated by Jack Dawson. This translation used by permission of The Knopf Doubleday Group, is a division of Penguin Random House LLC.It is the West Coast premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang's compelling new work.“A painful meditation on dreams forsaken and hopes unrealized unfolds in an unusually intimate staging that incorporates multiple levels of the spectacular Theatre at Ace Hotel. Composer David Lang returns to LA Opera for the first time since his spellbinding anatomy theater, with baritone Rod Gilfry in a tour-de-force performance of a role he created at the work’s premiere at the pathbreaking Bang on a Can festival,” adds the website.The opera will be on stage on February 22, 2019 and February 23, 2019 at 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015, U.S.A.For details, visit: https://www.laopera.org/season/1819-season-la-opera-season/the-loser/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the opera http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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