Lisa Bielawa Vireo - The Spiritual Biogr

'Vireo' is an opera in 12 episodes, created for television and online viewing. The opera removes the set limitations of a staged opera, visiting locations across the country - Alcatraz Prison, a monastery on the Hudson River, an abandoned train station in Oakland, the California Redwoods. An orchestra in the pit is replaced with world-class musicians on camera, inside the action. The eponymous heroine Vireo, played by Rowen Sabala, is a fourteen-year-old girl genius entangled in the historic obsession with female visionaries, as witch-hunters, early psychiatrists, and modern artists have defined them. Vireo was shot on location from New York's Hudson River Valley to California's Redwood forests.