Name: David Lang On "prisoner of the state"
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T04:15:52.000Z
Duration: 2 min 21 s
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DAVID LANG: I saw a production of Fidelio--

I must have been 20 years old, 21 years old--

and there were a lot of unanswered questions

and I've been thinking about those questions ever since.

And so, I thought I would think about politics,

and try to go into this piece and figure out

how it can more relate to what I am thinking now

I want to ask now about the world I live in.

and I got rid of the secondary stories in that.

And so a lot of what I'm doing in the opera

What the relationship of the husband and the wife should be?

What the relationship of the people living in this prison

What's the relationship of this prisoner to the state that

And how we essentially have given power to the state

And what I did is I tried to take texts from other sources

and to bring them to the foreground in my piece.

- (SINGING) Better to be feared than to be loved.

one of the most exciting things I've ever done.

Because I've been thinking about this piece for so long.

And to see it made real, to see these incredible actors,

it's just unbelievable to see this thing take shape.

of a dream, of a memory, of a tiny little seed.

And now, all of a sudden, it's something real.

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David Lang On "prisoner of the state"

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