Language: German
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Lulu is an opera in three acts by Alban Berg. Berg adapted the libretto from Frank Wedekind's two Lulu plays, Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora.

The opera tells the story of a mysterious young woman known as Lulu, who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a victim and a purveyor of destruction. It explores the idea of the femme fatale and the duality between her feminine and masculine qualities. The characters are symmetrical, and the musical form is arched, based on twelve-tone series.

Berg died before completing the third and final act, and in the following decades the opera was typically performed incomplete. Since the 1979 publication of the version including Friedrich Cerha's orchestration of the act 3 sketches, it has become standard. Lulu is especially notable for using serialism at a time that was particularly inhospitable to it. Theodor W. Adorno wrote, "The opera Lulu is one of those works that reveals the extent of its quality the longer and more deeply one immerses oneself in it."

Director: Dmitri Tcherniakov (Director), Kirill Petrenko (Music Conductor)
Cast: Marlis Petersen (Lulu), Daniela Sindram (Gräfin Geschwitz), Rachael Wilson (Eine Theatergarderobiere / Ein Gymnasiast / Ein Groom), Christian Rieger (Medizinalrat / Bankier / Professor), Rainer Trost (Der Maler / Ein Neger), Bo Skovhus (Dr. Schön / Jack the Ripper), Matthias Klink (Alwa), Martin Winkler (ein Tierbändiger / Ein Athlet), Pavlo Hunka (Schigolch), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Der Prinz / Der Kammerdiener / Der Marquis), Bavarian State Opera Orchestra