American Lulu: Theater an der Wien

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Experience an all‐new version of Berg's opera -- one that seethes with racial tension.

When he died in 1935, Alban Berg left his opera Lulu unfinished. Until recently, the work was performed with a version of the third act composed by Fredrich Cerha, based on Berg's sketches.

The rights to Berg's work expired in 2005, and composer Olga Neuwirth decided to contemporize Lulu's predicament and retain the opera's social relevance -- by setting the work in the America of the 1950s and, subsequently, 1970s. The gender discrimination inherent in Berg's work is even more sharply defined in Neuwirth's version, in which an African‐American Lulu suffers racial discrimination as well.

Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
Stage direction and costuming: Kirill Serebrennikov
Light: Diego Leetz
Video: Gonduras Jitomirsky
Dramaturgy: Johanna Wall, Sergej Newski
Lulu: Marisol Montalvo
Eleanor: Della Miles
Clarence: Jacques‐Greg Belobo
Dr. Bloom: Glaudio Otelli
Jimmy / Young Man: Rolf Romei
Painter: Dmitry Golovin
Professor / Banker: Hans‐Peter Scheidegger
Commissioner: Frank Baer
Lulu Double: Jane‐Lynn Steinbrunn
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin