Lulu

Composer: Berg, Alban

Librettist/Text Author: Berg, Alban

Conductor: Barenboim, Daniel

Orchestra: Berlin Staatskapelle

A Negro: Rugamer, Stephan

A Painter: Rugamer, Stephan

Alwa: Piffka, Thomas

Athlete: Mayer, Thomas Johannes

Countess Geschwitz: Polaski, Deborah

Dr. Schon: Volle, Michael

High-School Boy: Lapkovskaja, Anna

Jack the Ripper: Volle, Michael

Lulu: Erdmann, Mojca

Lulu's Doppelganger: Modra, Blanka

Lulu's Doppelganger: Osswald, Liane

Professor of Medicine: Hubsch, Wolfgang

The Manservant: Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Wolfgang

The Prince: Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Wolfgang

The Professor: Hubsch, Wolfgang

Theatre Manager: Prein, Johannes Werner

Theatrical Dresser: Lapkovskaja, Anna

Set Designer: Wonder, Erich

Costume Designer: Bickel, Moidele

Lighting Designer: Freese, Olaf

Stage Director: Breth, Andrea

Television Director: Beyer, Michael

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Festival: Staatsoper Festtage Festival

Venue: Schiller Theater, Berlin

Playing Time: 02:35:37

Catalogue Number: A05018969

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Lulu – the "archetypal woman, created to wreak havoc, to lure, to seduce, to poison and to murder without anyone realizing" – represents the object and the projection of men's desires and dreams. By destroying her lovers, Lulu is driven from cold-hearted love to cold-blooded murder and ultimately to her own destruction. For this Berlin Version Alban Berg's fragment has been completed by David Robert Coleman. Mojca Erdmann as Lulu proves ideally suited, mastering the insane leaps and coloraturas of the role with incredible ease. She is supported by Deborah Polaski as Countess Geschwitz, the "internally smouldering" Michael Volle as Dr. Schon and Georg Nigl as the "meticulously articulating athlete". (Der Tagesspiegel)