Haydee Zelideth’s costumes for Song of the Earth are rooted in the earth. Dimensional, layered and inspired by the era from whence they came, each costume draws on the journey created in Anne Bogart’s new production of Mahler’s classic work.
Song of the Earth takes place in a single room inhabited across time by three figures: the Poet, who occupies the space shortly before his death; the Lover, who remains after him, suspended in memory; and the Mother, who lives in the present, grieving the loss of her child. Though they share the room, they exist in different temporal states, their lives overlapping without fully touching. Through Mahler’s songs and additional spoken text written by Anne Bogart, the work becomes a meditation on grief, memory, and endurance—ending not with resolution, but with continuation, as loss and life persist side by side.
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