DVD + Blu-Ray:
Olga Neuwirth: Orlando from Wiener Staatsoper

“A vivid Orlando makes history in Vienna” (New York Times) / “World premiere of the year” (Opernwelt) / "The premiere of the season” (Die Zeit)

Olga Neuwirth’s opera Orlando, based on Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same name, is the first full-length opera work by a woman celebrating its premiere at the Vienna State Opera. Olga Neuwirth, for a long time one of the great composers of the present, succeeds with this opera in creating a captivating arc across many musical genres. It’s an exciting, socially critical production by Polly Graham who puts a fantastically singing and playing Kate Lindsey in the center of the action. For Orlando Olga Neuwirth won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, it became “world premiere of the year” by Opernwelt magazine and for Die Zeit it was “the premiere of the season”.

BONUS: Interviews with Kate Lindsey, Will Duke (Video Designer), Lucas Niggli (drummer)

Original title Olga Neuwirth: Orlando from Wiener Staatsoper
Genre Opera
Recording location Wiener Staatsoper, December 2019
Duration 181 mins
Production Company A co-production of Wiener Staatsoper and ORF III in cooperation with UNITEL
Composer Olga Neuwirth
Orchestra / Band Wiener Staatsoper
Conductor Matthias Pintscher
Choir Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
Chorus Master Thomas Lang
Stage Director Polly Graham
Costumes COMME des GARÇONS
Soloist Kate Lindsey, Anna Clementi, Eric Jurenas, Justin Vivian Bond, Leigh Melrose, Constance Hauman