06:00 pm | Nationaltheater

Lulu

Alban Berg

Opera

Opera

Lulu

Composer Alban Berg. Libretto after the tragedies "Erdgeist" and "Die Büchse der Pandora" by Frank Wedekind.

Opera in three acts

In German with German surtitles.

BMW GLOBAL Partner

Anyone who sees her is already lost and anyone who wants to kiss her will, sooner or later, get bitten. In droves, men are dashed to pieces on the apparently so cuddly Lulu as if she were the rock of the Loreley. Corpses pave her way, she is a femme fragile and a femme fatale all at the same time, the "prototype of a woman", the most lethal female figure in the history of opera. But it is only the glance of men that makes her into the personae in which we meet her: She creates the image of a woman he  craves and on this constraining perspective the object of his lusts must again be destroyed. Alban Berg has described Lulu's path in subtle symmetry, with a score that bears within it the entire wealth of the history of music's form and colour.

Cast

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester