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...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 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...
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...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 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...
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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
Artists
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 Graham
Contents and tracklist
- 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 (opera company), Polly Graham
- Matthias Pintscher
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Olga Neuwirth's Orlando
22nd Apr 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.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week22nd April 2022
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.
