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Scene from: Lulu

Composer: Alban Berg
Conductor: Andrew Davies

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera, Lulu, in a provocative production for Glyndebourne by Graham Vick, is one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. Based on a pair of once-banned plays by the fin de siècle satirist Frank Wedekind, it charts the rise and fall of a serial seductress, from life as a society hostess to eventual death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Left uncompleted on the composer's tragically early death, Lulu is at once a pioneering work of musical modernism and a lyrical outpouring of a dying man's obsession for another man's wife.

"Altogether it's a superbly realised and revelatory evening"
THE GUARDIAN

Cast: Lulu - Christine Schäfer, Countess Geschwitz - Kathryn Harries, Wardrobe Mistress / Groom / Schoolboy - Patricia Bardon, Stage Manager / Banker / Medical Specialist / Professor - Jonathan Veira, Painter / Negro - Stephan Drakulich, Dr Schön / Jack the Ripper - Wolfgang Schöne, Alwa - David Kuebler, Schigolch - Norman Bailey. Animal Trainer / Athlete - Donald Maxwell, Prince / Manservant / Marquis - Neil Jenkins.

Catalogue: 0630155332

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