American Lulu
Overall concept and new interpretation of Alban Bergs opera "Lulu" by Olga Neuwirth (2006-2011)
In English with German surtitles
Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke
Director, set & costume design: Kirill Serebrennikov
With Marisol Montalvo, Della Miles et al.
Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
Guest performance of the Komischen Oper Berlin
Synopsis
In New Orleans in the 1950s, Dr Bloom has rescued the beautiful young black girl Lulu from the gutter and made her his lover. However, he does not want to publicly admit his liaison and marries her off to a professor. When she cheats on her husband by sleeping with a photographer, the professor suffers a fatal stroke. The subsequent marriage to the photographer also ends in death: he shoots himself when Bloom’s relationship to Lulu becomes clear to him. Lulu then succeeds in marrying Bloom, believing that he is the one she truly loves. But she is unfaithful to him, too. In the quarrel that ensues, she shoots Bloom dead, and is sent to prison. Women, too, fall for Lulu’s charm: the singer Eleanor loves her and makes great personal sacrifices to enable her to leave the prison. Lulu escapes to New York with Bloom’s son, Jimmy, where she works successfully as a high-class call-girl until the 1970s. But she becomes numbed to all feeling. When Eleanor leaves her as well, Lulu finds herself left alone to face the consequences of her profession.
Cast
Overall concept and new interpretation of Alban Bergs opera "Lulu" by Olga Neuwirth (2006-2011)
Music of Act I and II adapted and newly orchestrated by Olga Neuwirth | text of Acts I and II adapted by Olga Neuwirth and Helga Utz using translations by Richard Stokes and Catherine Kerkhoff-Saxon | music and text of Act III by Olga Neuwirth, English translation by Catherine Kerkhoff-Saxon
Performed in English with German surtitles
Conductor | Johannes Kalitzke |
Biography |
Director, Set & costume design | Kirill Serebrennikov |
Biography |
Light design | Diego Leetz |
Biography |
Video design | Gonduras Jitomirsky |
Biography |
Dramaturgy | Johanna Wall, Sergej Newski |
Biography |
Lulu | Marisol Montalvo |
Biography |
Eleanor | Della Miles |
Biography |
Clarence | Jacques-Greg Belobo |
Biography |
Dr. Bloom | Glaudio Otelli |
Biography |
Jimmy | Young Man | Rolf Romei |
Biography |
Painter | Dmitry Golovnin |
Biography |
Athlete | Horst Lamnek |
Biography |
Lulu-Double | Jane-Lynn Steinbrunn |
Biography |
Orchestra | Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin |
Biography |
