Olga Neuwirth: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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In 1985/86, she studied music and art at the [[San Francisco Conservatory of Music]] with [[Elinor Armer]]. She also studied painting and film at the [[Academy of Art University|San Francisco Art College]].<ref name="Ricordi" /> She continued her studies at the [[University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna]]<ref name="Ricordi" /> under [[Erich Urbanner]] while studying at the Institute for Composition and Electroacoustics. Her master's [[thesis]] was written on the [[film score]] of Alain Resnais's ''[[L'Amour à mort]]''.

In 1993/94 she studied with [[Tristan Murail]] and worked at [[IRCAM]], producing such works as "''...?risonanze!...''" for [[viola d'amore]]. She received significant inspiration in this period from [[Adriana Hölszky]] (''Nicht beirren lassen! Weitermachen!'')<ref name="Flitner-2004"/> and [[Luigi Nono]], who had similarly radical politics, and who she said was a strong influence in her life.{{cn}}

===Adulthood and advocacy===

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==Music==

Neuwirth has created several full-length music theatre works, including the video opera ''Lost Highway'' (2003), based on David Lynch's film; ''Bählamms Fest'' (1993/1997), drawing on the work of Leonora Carrington; ''The Outcast,'' referencing Herman Melville; and ''American Lulu,'' inspiredher byfree adaptation of Alban Berg's ''[[Lulu (opera)|Lulu]]''. She collaborated with [[Elfriede Jelinek]] on the opera "Bählamms Fest."

Neuwirth's [[opera]] of [[David Lynch]]'s film ''[[Lost Highway (film)|Lost Highway]]'' incorporates both live and pre-recorded audio and visual feeds, alongside other electronics. Its premiere took place in Graz in 2003, performed by the [[Klangforum Wien]] with the electronics realized at the [[Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics|Institut für Elektronische Musik]] (IEM). The American premiere of the opera took place at [[Oberlin College]] in Oberlin, Ohio, and featured further performances at [[Columbia University]]'s [[Miller Theatre]] in New York City, produced by Oberlin Conservatory and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble. The surround-sound recording released by Kairos was awarded the [[Diapason d'Or]]. The UK premiere took place at the [[Young Vic]] in London in April 2008, in a co-production with the [[English National Opera]], directed by [[Diane Paulus]] and conducted by [[Baldur Brönnimann]].

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* ''Körperliche Veränderungen'' and ''Der Wald'' (1989/1990). Two operas after Elfriede Jelinek

*''Bählamms Fest'' (1997/98) Music theatre in thirteen pictures. Text: [[Elfriede Jelinek]] after [[Leonora Carrington]]

* ''[[Lost Highway (opera)|Lost Highway]]'' (2002–2003) Anan [[opera]] adaptationbased ofon the 1997 [[David Lynch]] [[Lost Highway (film)|film of the same name]]

* ''American Lulu'' (2006–2011) Newa interpretationfree adaptation of [[Alban Berg]]’s opera ''[[Lulus (opera)|Lulu]]'' by Olga Neuwirth

* ''The Outcast – Homage to [[Herman Melville]]'' (2009–2011), a "musicstallation theatre" with video, libretto by [[Barry Gifford]] and Olga Neuwirth with monologues for Old Melville by [[Anna Mitgutsch]]

* ''Kloing! and A songplay in 9 fits'', ''Hommage à [[Klaus Nomi]]'' (2011), a music-theatre evening produced and compiled by Olga Neuwirth