Blake, a successful musician, has recently escaped rehab to return home. The safety of his house is soon disrupted by a slew of unwelcome guests — an insistent delivery worker, a pair of Mormons on a ...

We still don’t know what Kurt Cobain did in the days before his suicide in 1994. Gus Van Sant offered one hallucinatory guess in Last Days, refashioned into opera by Oliver Leith and Matt Copson, and ...

The most important thing to clarify about Last Days – the production at Royal Opera that every single Londoner is talking about/fighting to get into – is that it is not about Kurt Cobain. Instead it ...

Inspired by the 2005 Gus Van Sant film of the same name, which charts the final days of a silent musician inspired by Kurt Cobain, Last Days is an introspective exploration of alienation, banality and ...

An unexpected by-product of pandemic lockdowns was the time and headspace they allowed for composers to work on big projects. Oliver Leith and Matt Copson used the opportunity well; his Last Days is ...

Rock ‘n’ roll meets opera in this haunting and raw story loosely based on the last days of grunge icon Kurt Cobain’s life. Blake, a musician, has recently escaped rehab to return home. His inside ...