Although Christa Opriessnig is from Graz, she is now living in Vienna and very often performs on this viola. She is a founding member of Orpheon, and as such, has complete access to not only a number of violins and violas in the collection, but also to the violas da gamba: YES, she, too, plays the viol! She is portrayed here with the Dallinger viola, although she often performs on the wonderful instrument by either Nikolas Leidolff or his son, Johann Christoph. Therefore I am not allowed to lend either of these two violas out to anyone else (without her permission)!
