VIDEO: David Lang's Uniquely Staged THE LOSER Has Performer Floating 20 Feet Above Orchestra Seats

Don't even try getting orchestra seats to the Brooklyn Academy Of Music's Next Wave Festival production of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang's THE LOSER.

It's not that all the prime seats at the Howard Gilman Opera House are sold out. They were never on sale to begin with.

It's mezzanine seating only for this unusually-staged chamber opera adapted from Thomas Bernhard's novel about a failed piano student recounting his life lived in The Shadows of his famous friend Glenn Gould, one of the 20th Century's most celebrated classical pianists.

In the title role, baritone Rod Gilfry will appear to float above the covered orchestra seats, while virtuoso pianist Conrad Tao and a chamber ensemble conducted by Karina Cannelakis accompany from far in the distance.

In the video, Associate Producer Amy Cassello and Director of Production Neil Kutner discuss achieving this tricky effect.

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