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American Lulu at Theater an der Wien

Dates: (12/7/2014 - 12/11/2014 )

Theatre:

Theater an der Wien


Linke Wienzeile 6
Wien,Wien A - 1060

Phone: +43 1 588 30 1010

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Alban Berg Lulu left in 1935 without the third act Friedrich Cerha 1979 allowed a construct on the basis of Berg's sketches "complete" version, which previously represented the only way to experience the piece entirely. Since 2005, the rights to Berg's music are free and the composer Olga Neuwirth decided to take a look at the new female to throw "mythical female figure." In order to lend the events more relevance to social policy, she replied Lulu's fate in the America of the 1950s and 1970s. Neuwirth Lulu is black. On the issue of discrimination against women that occurs racial discrimination should result.

In New Orleans in the 1950s, Dr. Bloom has brought the beautiful young black Lulu out of the gutter and made ??her his mistress. However, he does not want to confess to her and married her to a professor. When she is cheating 7diesen with a photographer, dies of a professor at a stroke. The subsequent marriage to the photographer turns deadly for her husband: he shoots himself, as he sees through the Lulu's relationship with Bloom. Then succeeds Lulu to marry Bloom, because only him she believes truly love, but also it is cheating. In the ensuing dispute, she shoots bloom and go to jail. Women also fall Lulus
Charm: The singer Eleanor loves them and freed Lulu at great personal sacrifice from prison. With Bloom's son Jimmy Lulu flees to New York. There she worked until the 1970s successfully as a luxury call girl
but in her dying from all feelings. As Eleanor leaves, Lulu looks alone, subjected to the consequences of their erufs.

Cast and Creative team for American Lulu at Theater an der Wien

cast
Musikalische Leitung Johannes Kalitzke
Regie und Austattung Kirill Serebrennikov
Licht Diego Leetz
Video Gonduras Jitomirsky
Dramaturgie Johanna Wall, Sergej Newski
Lulu Marisol Montalvo
Eleanor Della Miles
Clarence Jacques-Greg Belobo
Dr. Bloom Glaudio Otelli
Jimmy / Young Man Rolf Romei
Painter Dmitry Golovin
Professor / Banker Hans-Peter Scheidegger
Commissioner Frank Baer
Lulu-Double Jane-Lynn Steinbrunn
. Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin

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