Berg: Lulu

Berg: Lulu

156 mins | Music | April 7, 2015

A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark and satirical in tone, charts the story of the rise and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and, eventually, a bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper.

Berg: Lulu

156 mins | Music | April 7, 2015

Berg: Lulu
A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark and satirical in tone, charts the story of the rise and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and, eventually, a bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper.
Producers Deutsche Grammophon
Original title Berg: Lulu
Directors Andrea Breth, Michael Beyer
Writers Frank Wedekind

Cast

Mojca Erdmann

as Lulu

Anna Lapkovskaya

as Eine Garderobiere

Jürgen Linn

as Schigolch

Thomas J. Mayer

as Ein Athlet

Thomas Piffka

as Alwa

Deborah Polaski

as Grafin Geschwitz

Johann Werner Prein

as Der Theaterdirektor

Stephan Rügamer

as Mer Maler

Michael Volle

as Dr. Schön