Lost Highway
Olga Neuwirth’s opera adapts David Lynch’s 1997 film into music theatre for singers, actors and live electronics. Its roles include Fred, Pete, Alice/Renee, Mr Eddy/Dick Laurent and the Mystery Man.
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Olga Neuwirth’s opera adapts David Lynch’s 1997 film into music theatre for singers, actors and live electronics. Its roles include Fred, Pete, Alice/Renee, Mr Eddy/Dick Laurent and the Mystery Man.
Vampire women Vampi and Bampi travel the world and attempt to stop a destructive King-President, portrayed as a grotesque ruler in an oval office. Gorgonzilla, a sea monster created by a nuclear accident, opposes the ruler but has an ambiguous role. The King-President’s adjutants Mickey and Tuckey are patterned after powerful technology executives. The work satirizes the danger that the ruler could destroy the world and the efforts to prevent it.
Olga Neuwirth’s opera adapts David Lynch’s 1997 film into music theatre for singers, actors and live electronics. Its roles include Fred, Pete, Alice/Renee, Mr Eddy/Dick Laurent and the Mystery Man.
Vampire women Vampi and Bampi travel the world and attempt to stop a destructive King-President, portrayed as a grotesque ruler in an oval office. Gorgonzilla, a sea monster created by a nuclear accident, opposes the ruler but has an ambiguous role. The King-President’s adjutants Mickey and Tuckey are patterned after powerful technology executives. The work satirizes the danger that the ruler could destroy the world and the efforts to prevent it.