CDXXVIII. BERG, Alban (1885-1935)
Lulu (1929-35)
Act I (1:00:35)
Act II (51:46)
Act III (56:47)
Teresa Stratas, Lulu
Yvonne Minton, Countess Geschwitz
Hanna Schwarz, a dresser in a theatre; a high-school boy; a groom
Toni Blankenheim, the Professor of Medicine; an old man; the Police Officer
Robert Tear, the Painter; A Negro
Franz Mazura, Dr. Schön, editor-in-chief; Jack the Ripper
Kenneth Riegel, Dr. Schön's son, a composer
Gerd Nienstedt, an animal-tamer; an athlete
Helmut Pampuch, the Prince; the Manservant; the Marquis
Jules Bastin, the Theatre Manager; the Banker
Jane Manning, a fifteen-year-old girl
Ursula Boese, her mother
Anna Ringart, a lady artist
Claude Meloni, a journalist
Pierre-Yves le Maigat, a manservant
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris
Pierre Boulez, cond.
Berg died before completing Act III. This version includes Friedrich Cerha's orchestration of the Act III sketches.
Once the Nazis came to power, the opera was doomed. A production by Erich Kleiber in 1932 was the last, and by 1935 Berg's music was labelled Entartete Musik (degenerate music).
Goebbels made a speech equating atonality with "the Jewish intellectual infection," and it was suggested that "any reviewer who had anything favorable about the opera should be dismissed."
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