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DESCRIPTION:Short synopsis\nLulu is a young and fascinatingly beautiful you
 ng woman\; an orphan who\, as an adolescent\, falls in love with the bourg
 eois Dr Schön\, and has a secret love affair with him for several years. 
 Despite Lulu's successive marriages\, which Schön secretly arranged in or
 der to keep her at a distance and avoid scandal\, and which all ended trag
 ically\, he is forced to accept the fact that he cannot ignore his feeling
 s\, and ends up marrying the woman who will cause his death. Once married\
 , this jealous and possessive man spirals towards a murderous outcome. Aft
 er attempting to convince the young woman to commit suicide with his gun\,
  she accidentally kills him. Lulu flees to Paris and then to London. Accom
 panied by Schön's son Alwa and Countess Geschwitz – both of whom are in
  love with her – and by Schigolch\, an old tramp whom she has known sinc
 e her childhood\, Lulu attempts to escape the police and those who seek to
  take advantage of her. Due to her state of extreme poverty\, she is final
 ly forced to become a prostitute and ends up being stabbed to death by Jac
 k the Ripper\, her last customer.\nAlban Berg\nAlban Berg was born in 1885
  to a wealthy family of Viennese shopkeepers. He had only taken a few pian
 o lessons with a governess and had 'composed' about twenty-four lieder whe
 n he became a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg in 1904. During the next seven ye
 ars\, Schoenberg allowed him to develop his talents to such a point that t
 he young amateur – who wrote in the style of Schumann and Brahms – bec
 ame one of the figureheads of the Second Viennese School\, a movement whic
 h breathed new life into the music of the 20th century. In Schoenberg's wa
 ke – and after the fashion of his classmate Anton Webern – Berg accomp
 lished the transition from late romanticism to atonality\, and from free a
 tonality to dodecaphonism\, although in fact he remained a romantic compos
 er. His modest production has great qualities. Although Berg ‘only’ co
 mposed two operas\, he is among the genre's masters. After Wozzeck – the
  first large-scale atonal opera which met with huge success in 1925 – he
  began to work on his second opera\, Lulu\, in 1927\, based on two tragedi
 es by Frank Wedekind: Erdgeist (1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1902)\,
  both of which deeply shocked the bourgeois public at the time. It took hi
 m six years to compose the work – from 1928 until spring 1934 – but th
 e score still had to be orchestrated. Berg interrupted this phase of his w
 ork in summer 1935 in order to compose a violin concerto\, which became a 
 requiem in the memory of an ‘angel’ following the death of Manon Gropi
 us\, daughter of Alma Mahler and architect Walter Gropius\, who was only 1
 7 years old. Shortly after finishing his ‘requiem’\, Berg died of sept
 icaemia. At the time of his death\, the orchestration for the third act of
  Lulu was still very fragmented. Berg's widow Helene asked Schoenberg\, Ze
 mlinsky and Webern to finish the orchestration for Lulu\, but none of them
  agreed to do it. Lulu premiered in 1937 in Zurich in its unfinished form 
 in two acts. It was only in 1979 that the complete version of the work was
  presented for the first time\, with all three acts\, in an orchestration 
 by Friedrich Cerha.
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LOCATION:De Munt/ La Monnaie
SUMMARY:Lulu - Opera
URL:http://www.lamonnaie.be/en/opera/229/Lulu
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