Alban Berg’s “Lulu” is an opera by a gifted Austrian composer steeped in the feverish psychosexual atmosphere of Sigmund Freud’s Vienna. Berg based his second and final stage work on two plays by the ...

Berg’s earlier opera, Wozzeck, is taut and perfunctory, like the Büchner play it’s based on. Lulu, a setting of a pair of wordy plays by the proto-expressionist Frank Wedekind, is brilliant, prolix, ...

This celebrated and extraordinarily performed production of Lulu, Alban Berg's musically and dramatically complex second opera, is designed and directed by the South African artist William Kentridge .

William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s atonal opera “Lulu” is sordid, seductive, sadistic, scandalous and, as one of the characters quips in German, full of schmutz. It might be the best ...

Two operas in two days in two locations: Last weekend’s opening of West Edge Opera’s summer festival offered a stunning display of musical and dramatic range. Saturday night’s gripping opening of ...

Even if it hadn’t been performed with such musical brilliance by a large and dedicated cast, and even if it hadn’t been staged with such inventive theatrical brio, you’d have to reckon the West Edge ...

NEW YORK — What do we see in Lulu? The title character of Berg's great 12-tone opera is no stranger to seduction, but the work's spell in fact originates on the level of sound itself. No other opera ...