Orlando

Music theater based on Virginia Woolf and George Friedrich Händel

Virginia Woolf’s literary masterpiece Orlando is a fictional biography and a playful and crazy treatise on gender identities, role models and time itself. In its version, Opera Incognita interweaves this literary story with a musical journey through time from Händel’s opera of the same name to the sounds of the present day. A music theater project full of subtle comedy and poetry.

Transformation into a woman

The page Orlando lives in 16th century England. He is young, handsome and his beauty should never fade. A wish that becomes his destiny. One day he wakes up and, looking in the mirror, discovers that he has been transformed into a woman. He lives through four centuries and various lifestyles without ever growing old.

You can look forward to the bewildering biography of a servant with literary ambitions at the English court who, after becoming a woman, mutates from a royal envoy in Constantinople to a salon lady in 18th century society. Disguised as a man, he experiences forbidden adventures and searches for true love.

Opera Incognita

The aim and guiding principle of Opera Incognita is to make extraordinary operas accessible to a young audience. Following the great success of La Traviata 2023, we are presenting Orlando, another extraordinary production that builds a bridge between the past and present and explores gender identities.

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Creative team