Olga Neuwirth: Orlando

Kate Lindsey (Orlando), Anna Clementi (Narrator), Eric Jurenas (Guardian Angel), Justin Vivian Bond (Orlando’s Child), Leigh Melrose (Greene/Shelmerdine), Constance Hauman (Queen/Purity/Friend of Orlando’s Child), Agneta Eichenholz (Sasha/Chastity)

Wiener Staatsoper, Matthias Pintscher, Polly...

Its sonorities and textures are extraordinary. Orchestral, electronic and sampled sounds run into each other to create astonishing fusions...There are many roles, all of them inhabited with unfailing... — Opera, October 2022 More…

Release Date: 22nd Apr 2022
Catalogue No: 760708
Label: C Major

Presto Recording of the Week

22nd April 2022

Neuwirth, O: Orlando

Kate Lindsey (Orlando), Anna Clementi (Narrator), Eric Jurenas (Guardian Angel), Constance Hauman (Queen/Purity/Friend of Orlando’s child), Leigh Melrose (Greene/Shelmerdine), Justin Vivian Bond (Orlando’s Child), Agneta Eichenholz (Sasha/Chastity), Wiener Staatsoper (opera company), Polly Graham
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Recording of the Week, Olga Neuwirth's Orlando

22nd April 2022

The Austrian composer's Virginia Woolf-inspired opera delights in blurring boundaries of all kinds, with an astonishing central performance from mezzo Kate Lindsey in the shape-shifting title-role.

Orlando is the first work commissioned from a woman for 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. An exciting, socially critical production by Polly Graham who puts a fantastically singing and playing Kate Lindsey in the center of the action. Opernwelt made it “First performance of the year” in its annual hit list. “The premiere of the season” Die Zeit

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Wiener Staatsoper, Matthias Pintscher, Polly Graham

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October 2022

Its sonorities and textures are extraordinary. Orchestral, electronic and sampled sounds run into each other to create astonishing fusions...There are many roles, all of them inhabited with unfailing assurance by an exceptionally strong cast. Leading all is Kate Lindsey, her Orlando simply a stunning performance.

22nd April 2022

Woolf's 1928 novel provides Neuwirth with a framework to explore boundaries of almost every possible variety, blurring the lines between sound, speech and music, stage and screen, and above all musical styles: the score draws on influences as disparate as Renaissance polyphony, Stravinsky-esque neo-Classicism, protest-song and punk, and does so with a dizzying sleight-of-hand that’s hard to resist

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