![]() With Blake as the inert focus, all these hangers-on gradually generate chaos around him. ![]() His manager is just heard on the telephone, as the gabbling, pre-recorded voice of a Montana cattle auctioneer. To a greater or lesser extent all the other onstage characters sing – a delivery driver (Mimi Doulton), a superfan (Patricia Auchterlonie), two evangelising Mormons (Seumas Begg and Kate Howden), and a private investigator (Sion Goronwy) hired to locate Blake. He says very little in the opera that’s intelligible - the surtitles decipher his enigmatic mumblings. Leith and Copson make Blake a non-singing role, which is taken in gender-blind casting by the French actor Agathe Rousselle. Van Sant’s central character is Blake, a rock musician freshly out of rehab who is hiding away from his fame and the friends, fans and managers who all want a piece of him.
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