Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Kate Lindsey

Orlando

Spoken

Anna Clementi

Narrator

Countertenor

Eric Jurenas

Angel

Soprano

Constance Hauman

Queen

Purity

Friend of Orlando's child

Agneta Eichenholz

Sasha

Chastity

Baritone

Leigh Melrose

Shelmerdine

Green

Child vocalist

Justin Vivian Bond

Orlando's child

Lucas Niggli

Schlagzeug-Soloist

Margaret Plummer

Modesty

Marcus Pelz

Dryden

Lukhanyo Moyake

Addison

Wolfgang Bankl

Duke

Christian Miedl

Pope

Wolfram Igor Derntl

Doctor 1

Hans Peter Kammerer

Doctor 2

Ayk Martirossian

Doctor 3

Katie La Folle

Orlando's girlfriend

Andreas Patton

Tutor

Felix Erdmann

Russian sailor

Florian Glatt

Servant

Michael Stark

Boat's captain

Tvrtko Stajcer

Children's father

Massimo Rizzo

Officiant

Katharina Billerhart

Fiancée

Conductor

Matthias Pintscher

Stage director

Polly Graham

Set designer

Roy Spahn

Costume designer

Comme des garçons

Video designer

Will Duke

Lighting designer

Ulrich Schneider

Choreographer

Jenny Ogilvie

Dramaturge

Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach

Helga Utz

Wiener Staatsoper

English

Vienna

Austria

On December 8, 2019, Olga Neuwirth's opera Orlando - based on Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name - will have its world premiere at the Haus am Ring. The work was commissioned in 2014 by State Opera Director Dominique Meyer for the Vienna State Opera. The libretto was written by the Franco-American author and playwright Catherine Filloux and the composer Olga Neuwirth herself.

Orlando is Virginia Woolf's first major literary success, which has become one of the most prominent classics of English modernism. It addresses the intertwining of gender identity, love and artistic creativity and poetically breaks social and personal reality in a sophisticated way.

The journey through time and generations through the centuries does not end in Olga Neuwirth's "Opera in 19 Scenes" as in the original in 1928, but continues into 2019. Olga Neuwirth's music theater opens a door into the realm of the simultaneity of things experienced, selected, heard, knowledge and feeling. So into the realm of fiction, built from memories. “Ever since I was a child I was interested in everything: art, politics, science, architecture, human psychology. I am equally inspired by the wonderful variety of life, the small and big things in the world. ORLANDO reflects this: Because the essence of this fictional biography is the love of the strange, the paradoxical, the grotesque, the artistry, exaggeration and exaggeration, to create a new morphology of a narrative in constant motion. It's also always about a cultivated, highly sophisticated form of sexual attraction and against the constriction in the direction of a single gender. And about not allowing yourself to be patronized and treated condescendingly, which happens and will happen to women again and again,” says Olga Neuwirth.

Orlando Neuwirth

German

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading