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Olga Neuwirth

OLGA NEUWIRTH  

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below is a list of Olga Neuwirth's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 American Lulu         Lost Highway

American Lulu

Synopsis:
In 1950s New Orleans, a young dancers world is slowly torn apart by the jealous and controlling men and women desperate to be her lover. As the seductive and scarred Lulu looks back at her life, she faces a sordid history of sex, murder and suicide.

Notes:
Olga Neuwirth interpreting Alan Berg's opera. This radical reworking of Alban Bergs unfinished opera will transport audiences to the smoky jazz clubs of the Deep South against the backdrop of the civil rights movement.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Opera Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  with doubling

Further Reference:
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Lost Highway

Synopsis:
exitential statements about identity, disorientation and 'the inevitable questioning of questionableness', it revolves around a jazz musician sentenced to death for murdering his wife.
Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph

Notes:
music/words by Olga Neuwirth; words by Elfriede Jelinek, Based On Film By David Lynch

1st Produced:
-    2003

Organisations:
Young Vic/English National Opera

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  12            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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