Orlando : a fictional musical biography in 19 scenes

DVD 2022

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.

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2 videodiscs (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (29 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
digital optical stereo Dolby Digital 5.1
videodisc
NTSC
video file DVD video region 0
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVRS: Not rated

Other Title:

Olga Neuwirth : Orlando : a fictional musical biography in 19 scenes

Notes:

Originally performed and filmed as an opera in 2019
Special features include: interviews with Kate Lindsey, Will Duke, Lucas Niggli; booklet with complete credits, scene list, synopsis, and an essay entitled "On Orlando: A Fictional Musical Biography" (text in English and German)
Filmed in HD and mastered from an HD source
Music by Olga Neuwirth ; set designer, Roy Spahn ; costume designer, Comme des Garçons ; lighting designer, Ulrich Schneider
Narrator, Anna Clementi ; featuring: Kate Lindsey, Eric Jurenas, Constance Hauman, Margaret Plummer, Agneta Eichenholz, Leigh Melrose, Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Nicolas Rudner, Emil Lang, Wolfram Igor Derntl, Hans Peter Kammerer, Ayk Martirossian, Lucas Niggli, Katie La Folle ; Children's Choir: Opernschule Der Wiener Staatsoper, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper; Chorus Masters: Thomas Lang, Stefano Ragusini, Svetlomir Zlatkov; conductor Matthias Pintscher
Recorded live at the Wiener Staatsoper, December 2019
DVD; region code 0 (worldwide); NTSC; 16:9; PCM stereo; DTS 5.1
In English; with subtitles in German, English, Korean, and Japanese

Contents:

Disc 1: Scenes I-X and Bonus
Disc 2: Scenes XI-XIX

Control Number:

3193314

UPC:

814337016791

Other Authors:

Bankl, Wolfgang, singer
Bond, Justin Vivan, 1963- singer
C Major Entertainment GmbH, distributor
Clementi, Anna, narrator
Comme des Garçons (Firm), costume designer
Derntl, Wolfram Igor, singer
Eichenholz, Agneta, singer
Eleta, Jasmina, film director
Filloux, Catherine, librettist
Graham, Polly, stage director
Hauman, Constance, singer
Jurenas, Eric, singer
Kammerer, Hans Peter, singer
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, singer
La Folle, Kate, singer
Lang, Emil, 1909-1944, singer
Lang, Thomas (Chorus master), choral conductor
Lindsey, Kate, singer
Martirossian, Ayk, singer
Melrose, Leigh, singer
Miedl, Christian, singer
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Orlando
Neuwirth, Olga, 1968- Orlando
Neuwirth, Olga, 1968- librettist
Niggli, Lucas, 1968- performer
ORF III, production company
Osuna, Carlos, 1954-
Pintscher, Matthias, conductor
Plummer, Margaret, singer
Ragusini, Stefano, choral conductor
Rudner, Nicolas, singer
Schneider, Ulrich, lighting designer
Spahn, Roy, set designer
Unitel Film- und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft mbH, production company
Wiener Staatsoper, production company
Wiener Staatsoper. Opernschule, singer
Zlatkov, Svetlomir, choral conductor

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