Get an inside look at the costumes Rei Kawakubo designed for a new production of 'Orlando.'
When soprano Constance Hauman donned her Queen Elizabeth I costume for a production of “Orlando” premiering Sunday at the Vienna State Opera, she was overcome with emotion in her golden cage of a dress that abstractly suggests bee anatomy, and telegraphs otherworldly grandeur.
“Woolf depicts and criticizes changes in politics, etiquette, societal constraints and literature and that’s why I had also chosen this book,” she adds. “I didn’t take too much into account for the periods and the gender when I was making costumes,” she says in response to e-mailed questions. “I accepted Olga’s offer because she agreed that I [should] work on the Orlando theme for men’s and ladies’ collections as well as the opera. I thought the idea of a three-part project would be interesting — working on three different ways of interpreting the theme.
To be sure, it was a dream come true for Neuwirth that Kawakubo accepted the project. When she sat down to pen the libretto with New York-based writer Catherine Filloux in 2014, she had already inscribed the Japanese designer as her wish to outfit “Orlando.
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