Kurt Cobain’s estate accuses Royal Opera House of profiting from the singer’s death
msn.comthe production, called Last Days, was not “authorised” and is “an attempt that seeks to profit” on the harrowing end to Cobain’s life.
The highly-rated production of the 2005 Gus Van Sant film of the same name tells of the lead singer’s final hours alone before he took his own life aged 27 in 1994.
A representative for Kurt Cobain’s estate told MailOnline: “This show has been created and written without the permission or input of the Cobain estate. “Sadly, it is an unauthorised attempt that seeks to profit and benefit from a brief meeting that took place thirty years ago. ”Conceived by librettist Matt Copson and composer Oliver Leith, the story is an enigmatic sequence of events from which Cobain - renamed Blake in the opera - withdraws into total isolation.
The introspective artist struggles with drug addiction and feeling isolated and lonely under the weight of fame, killing himself in his Seattle home.
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