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Extravagance (and Shoe Love) in the Rise of a Despot?
“This is quite a place to audition new material,” David Byrne deadpanned at Carnegie Hall on Saturday night…
The New York Times 2.5.07 |
David Byrne Meets Imelda
With almost every number in Here Lies Love the audience was ready to dance, even if it was to a lesson in late 20th century southeast Asian history.
Time 2.4.07
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In New York, David Byrne sings of Imelda Marcos
"This is not artistic licence, this is reportage," Byrne told a laughing audience as the story moved to Marcos' extravagant visits to New York, where she frequented the famed nightclub "Studio 54."
Reuters 2.4.07 |
Imelda: The Nightclub Years
"No shoes? No brutal husband? David Byrne tells Andrew Purcell why he teamed up with Fatboy Slim to write an opera about the disco-loving side of Imelda Marcos."
Guardian (UK) 1.29.07 |
Has Opera Lost the Plot?
The music-theatre piece by David Byrne on the life of Imelda Marcos, Here Lies Love, came much closer to a kind of operatic truth…
The Weekend Australian 3.25.06 |
The life of Imelda Marcos comes to the Adelaide stage
"And I thought, here's someone in power that comes with a sound track attached…"
ABC Australia 3.13.06 — Radio interview [1MB Quicktime file]
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A Steel Butterfly Still Emerging
[Byrne] is proposing that Imelda is no more the sum of her shoes than Jackie Kennedy was just a collection of pillbox hats.
The Australian 3.13.06 |
Retro and Kitsch — So in Style
Introducing the show, Byrne said he was interested in how powerful people justify their morally reprehensible acts to themselves, but he found Imelda more interesting than your garden-variety dictator because she had a disco installed in her New York townhouse.
The Age 3.13.06 |
Imelda Marcos, in her own words
Imelda Marcos pointed a tiny pistol straight ahead of her and a red dot appeared on a screen in the middle of a heart-shaped face labeled "Happy."
The International Herald Tribune 3.8.06 |
True Stories
So David Byrne calls Fatboy Slim and says: "Here's an idea. Imelda Marcos, OK? Wife of a dictator. Liked to go to discos in her younger days. Could make a good musical. What do you think?"
The Australian 2.25.06 |
Byrne, Baby, Byrne
"The auditions were fairly hilarious," Byrne says. "Because they have to sing for the whole thing and because it's energetic dance music, I set up a karaoke lounge in my studio here."
The Advertiser 10.15.05 |
