"Despair" The Opera

Several years in the making, the debut of N + Gitane Demone has finally arrived. Despair, a sprawling, experimental opera with a libretto penned by Demone, Despair tells the story of an elderly man as he begins to slip into dementia, and whose sunny memories and hallucinations of his ancestors’ murderous past alternately propel him toward an inevitable and precipitous fate. Scored by German drone guitar alchemist N, whose long list of credits include the bands [MULTER] and O R T, using unique am...