Berg: Lulu - Glyndebourne Festival Opera [1996]

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Alban Berg's second and last opera Lulu is one of the monuments of modernism, constructed around serial technique and containing scenes conceived of as Sonata-form, Suite and so on. The bliss of Andrew Davis's conducting in this classic Glyndebourne production is that we forget all of this--Davis doesn't gloss over the music's intellectual content, but that's not what we think about as we watch and listen. Part of the production's strength is the prodigious performance by Christine Schafer as Lulu--for once we believe in the character's sexual energy and power; and Schafer makes her real enough as a person that we largely forget the work's intrinsic misogyny. The rest of the cast are admirable too: Norman Bailey brings something perversely sweet to the disreputable painter Schigolch; Kathryn Harries makes the dying words of Lulu's lesbian lover Geschwitz one of the work's lyric high points; David Kuebler is equally powerful as Alwa. The final duet between Lulu and her destroyer Jack the Ripper is one of Wolfgang Schone's great moments, but he is equally good as Dr Schon, the man Lulu marries and kills. This is a performance of energy and beauty, matched by a simple but effective production.

On the DVD Lulu on disc is presented in disappointingly in NTSC format with a 4:3 picture ratio. Fortunately, the Dolby 2.0 digital sound is ideal for the fine detail of this complex score and these nuanced performances. There are subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. --Roz Kaveney

DVD Description
Cast:

• Lulu -- Christine Schafer
  
• Countess Geschwitz -- Kathryn Harries
  
• Dr Shon/Jack the Ripper -- Wolfgang Schone
  
• Patricia Bardon, Jonathan Veira, David Kuebler, Norman Bailey, Donald Maxwell, Neil Jenkins

London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis
Stage producer: Graham Vick

Graham Vicks' 1996 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production, starring Christine Schafer and conducted by Andrew Davis.

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