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LOCATION:Komische Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Orlando
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DESCRIPTION:Imagine being immortal and witnessing four centuries of history
  firsthand—first as a man\, then as a woman...\n\nA favorite of Queen El
 izabeth I\, the young English nobleman Orlando is showered with honours an
 d estates—and henceforth\, ceases to age. After an unresolved love affai
 r with the beautiful Russian Sasha\, Orlando withdraws from society\, dete
 rmined to become a poet. Disappointed once again\, he then takes up a dipl
 omatic post in a distant conflict zone. There\, after a trance-like sleep 
 lasting a week\, Orlando awakens as a woman. With this change\, she discov
 ers that she’s lost all her property ownership rights in England. In sea
 rch of freedom\, Orlando journeys through centuries of patriarchal rule\, 
 witnessing Baroque decadence\, Victorian morality\, countless wars\, and t
 he rise of the digital age. Orlando’s own non-binary child embodies the 
 fluidity of identity\, challenging every notion of duality. As a poet\, Or
 lando writes against simplification and populism\, and as a time traveller
 \, Orlando continuously reimagines the present.Virginia Woolf dedicated he
 r visionary novel Orlando to her lover Vita Sackville-West in 1928. In the
  opera Orlando\, which premiered in 2019\, the Austrian composer Olga Neuw
 irth continues the fictional biography into the present day and embarks on
  her own musical journey through time\, from madrigals to electronic music
 . Director Ewelina Marciniak brings this kaleidoscopic work on the fluidit
 y of time\, style and gender roles to a German stage for the first time in
  this new production by the Komische Oper Berlin.
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