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| Lost Highway | |
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| Opera by Olga Neuwirth | |
| Librettist | Elfriede Jelinek |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Based on | David Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway |
| Premiere | 2003 |
Lost Highway is a 2003 opera adaptation of the 1997 David Lynch film of the same name, by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth with the libretto by 2004 Nobel Prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek.
The opera was premiered in Graz in 2003 at the Steirischer Herbst Festival of New Music with the live-electronics and sound design realized at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) using the open source software Pure Data.[1]
It made its American premiere at Finney Chapel in Oberlin, Ohio and at the Miller Theater in New York City in February 2007, in a production performed by students from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. It was directed by Jonathon Field, with sound design by Tom Lopez, produced by Lewis Nielson, and Set Design by Scott Dane Knowles. Barry Bryan portrayed Fred Madison.[2]
It premiered in the UK in an ENO production at the Young Vic in April 2008. This production was directed by Diane Paulus, with set and costume design by Riccardo Hernandez, video design by Philip Bussmann, lighting design by Mimi Jordan Sherin and sound design by Markus Noisternig. The cast included Mark Bonnar as Fred Madison, Quirijn de Lang as Pete Dayton, Valérie MacCarthy as Renne/Alice, Christopher Robson as The Mystery Man and David Moss as Mr Eddy/Dick Laurent.[3]
The German premiere was staged at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt by Yuval Sharon, with David Moss, among others.[4]
References
- ^ Nicodemus, Katja (6 November 2003). "Im Hirn des anderen / Oper sucht Film – Olga Neuwirths Vertonung von David Lynchs "Lost Highway" wurde beim Steirischen Herbst in Graz uraufgeführt". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ Janas, Marci (October 2006). "The Conservatory to Present U.S. Premiere of Olga Neuwirth's 'Lost Highway'". Oberlin Online Backstage Pass. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
- ^ Hewett, Ivan (2008-03-25). "Lost Highway: into the dark heart of David Lynch". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-03-25.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Adler, Susanne (14 September 2018). "Deutsche Erstaufführung von "Lost Highway": Oper nach dem David-Lynch-Film in Frankfurt". Echo-Online (in German). Retrieved 19 September 2018.