Name: American Lulu
Start: 2014-12-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-12-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

Organization

Instrumentalist

Olga Neuwirth

Conductor

Johannes Kalitzke

Stage director

Kirill Serebrennikov

Set designer

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Diego Leetz

Dramaturge

Johanna Wall

Sergej Newski

Soprano

Marisol Montalvo

Lulu

Singer

Della Miles

Eleanor

Bass

Jacques-Greg Belobo

Clarence

Bass-baritone

Claudio Otelli

Dr Bloom

Tenor

Rolf Romei

Jimmy

Young Man

Dmitrij Golovnin

Painter

Horst Lamnek

Athlete

Jane-Lynn Steinbrunn

Lulu-Double

Video

Gonduras Jitomirsky

MusikTheater an der Wien

engelsk

American Lulu

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

Public

tysk

Approved

In 1935 Alban Berg left Lulu without the third act. In 1979, Friedrich Cerha was allowed to construct a “complete” version based on Berg's sketches, which until now was the only way to experience the piece in its entirety. The rights to Berg's music have been free since 2005 and the composer Olga Neuwirth decided to take a new female look at the “mythical female figure”. In order to give the events more socio-political relevance, they relocated Lulu's fate to America in the 1950s and 1970s. Neuwirth's Lulu is black. Racial discrimination is added to the issue of discrimination against women.

In 1950s New Orleans, Dr. Bloom took the beautiful young black Lulu out of the gutter and made him his lover. However, he does not want to confess to her and marries her to a professor. When she cheats on him with a photographer, the professor dies of a stroke. The subsequent marriage with the photographer also ends fatally for the husband: he shoots himself when he sees through the relationship between Lulu and Bloom. Then Lulu succeeds in marrying Bloom, because she only thinks she really loves him, but she cheats on him too. In the ensuing argument, she shoots Bloom and has to go to jail.
Women also fall for Lulu's charm: the singer Eleanor loves her and frees Lulu from prison at great personal sacrifice. Lulu flees to New York with Bloom's son Jimmy. There she worked successfully as a luxury call girl until the 1970s, but all emotions died in her. When Eleanor also leaves, Lulu sees herself at the mercy of the consequences of her job.

English

American Lulu by Neuwirth, Fra (2014/2014), Instrueret af Kirill Serebrennikov,, Dirigent Johannes Kalitzke, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

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