COSMONAUT part 2 music David Chesworth, libretto Tony MacGregor

Cosmonaut with music and sound design by David Chesworth and libretto written by Tony MacGregor, was inspired by the fate of Soviet Sergei Krikalev, who was in orbit as the USSR fell apart. It explores time, mob mentality during political change, the loneliness of the individual and the possibility of connection between two distant souls.

The opera takes place over four orbits as our cosmonaut, Viktor Khlebnikov, listens to grabs of intercepted transmissions and broadcasts while the political situation on Earth twists and turns. During this time, he communicates for brief moments with Angela, who, isolated in her suburban Australian bedroom, becomes increasingly obsessed with her doomed spaceman.

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• Astronaut
• Cosmonaut
• space
• cold war
• David
• Chesworth
• opera
• contemporary
• experimental
• dance
• music