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Vienna stages first female-led opera

Adele Redmond
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Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has become the first woman to have a show staged by Vienna State Opera in the company's 150-year history. Her show, inspired by Virigina Woolf's novel 'Orlando', is "a a journey of constant questioning of imposed norms by society, and society is made by man", she said.