Berg: Lulu

Overview

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.

Cast

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Der prinz

Mojca Erdmann

Lulu

Anna Lapkovskaya

Eine Garderobiere

Jürgen Linn

Schigolch

Thomas Johannes Mayer

Ein Athlet

Thomas Piffka

Alwa

Deborah Polaski

Grafin Geschwitz

Johann Werner Prein

Der Theaterdirektor

Stephan Rügamer

Mer Maler

Michael Volle

Dr. Schön