NEUWIRTH : LOST HIGHWAY

Radio New Zealand Concert network
Tuesday 12th of July 2011 at 8 pm

Olga NEUWIRTH's Lost Highway, an opera in twelve scenes,
after the film of the same name by David Lynch
Renée/Alice............................ Constance Hauman
Pete........................................ Georg Nigl
Fred/Mechaniker.................... Vincent Crowly
Mr Eddy/Dick Laurent............ David Moss
Mystery Man.......................... Andrew Watts
Andy/Mechaniker................... Kai Wessel
Klangforum Wien/Johannes Kalitzke (Kairos 0012542KAI)

COMPOSER
INTRODUCTION
UNDERGROUND
RECORDING
REVIEW


Olga Neuwirth's LOST HIGHWAY, an opera in 12 scenes, based on the movie by David Lynch; this might be difficult to follow if we can not see what is happening on the stage. David Lynch (TWIN PEAKS) always sets puzzles for viewers (what is going on here?!). One of his stinkers is MULHOLLAND DRIVE; I actually worked that one out after pondering over it for years (you have to determine what is dream and flashback in the sequence of scenes).