Len Lye: The Opera, by Eve de Castro-Robinson and Roger Horrocks

Len Lye: The Opera is as striking and original as the artist deserves, says librettist Roger Horrocks.

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1st September, 2012

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As a young man looking at “scuddy” clouds from a windy Wellington hilltop, artist Len Lye had a revelation. “All of a sudden it hit me,” he said later. “If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion.” His attempts to compose motion produced some of the most forward-looking filmmaking and sculpture of the 20th century and now this “modernist maverick” is the subject of a 21st-century opera that crosses almost as many artistic boundaries as he did in his remarkable career. The story of Len Lye: The Opera began in 2001 when ...

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