Olga Neuwirth

Olga Neuwirth is an Austrian composer, born in Graz in 1968. She studied in San Francisco and Vienna and later with Tristan Murail in Paris, where she also worked at IRCAM. She writes for the stage, for orchestra and ensembles and for film, and is known above all for her music theatre and operas, among them Lost Highway after David Lynch, on a libretto written with the author Elfriede Jelinek, and Orlando after Virginia Woolf. Bählamms Fest, set to a Jelinek libretto drawn from Leonora Carrington, premiered at the Wiener Festwochen in 1999. Lost Highway premiered in Graz in 2003.