Kurt Cobain's Last Days Come to the Opera | Israel today

"Last Days," director Gus Van Sant's 2005 film about Kurt Cobain, will soon become an opera.

According to The Guardian magazine, the film, which centers on the character of a musician based on the lead singer of the late band Nirvana, will receive a stage adaptation in the hands of the London Royal House Opera.

Oliver Lith, 31, the opera's lead composer, is considered a big fan of the band, and in an interview with the Guardian he said Cobain's biography is "an archetypal story, the kind that operas know how to deal with well."

Although Lith was 4 years old when the singer ended his life in April 1994, he says that "the music (of Nirvana) was a soundtrack of my youth. These are some of the first songs I learned to play the guitar."

He further said that despite viewers' claims that Van Sant made a sensationalization of Cobain's suicide story in his film, he does not think so.

The film on which the opera is based was based (but not exactly) on the musician's last days, and its protagonist sinks into it for pain, depression, loneliness and drug use, before ending his life.

The comedy for the opera will be composed by Matt Copson, who will also direct the show alongside director Anna Morrissey.

"I owe a lot to the way I create music to the grunge sound of the period," the composer added.

"I had never before thought of the place from which I drew inspiration for experimental and repetitive ideas in my work."

An official statement from the opera house said that the opera "Last Days" "dives into the suffering and anguish that created modern mythology" and that Blake Weil, the character representing Cobain at the center of the film as well as at the center of the opera, is "haunted by distracting objects, critics and memories" His mind from his real goal - self-destruction. "

The intriguing opera (which Cobain probably would not have liked) is expected to hit the stage in October.

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