Two operas in two days in two locations: Last weekend’s opening of West Edge Opera’s summer festival offered a stunning display of musical and dramatic range. Saturday night’s gripping opening of ...

William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s atonal opera “Lulu” is sordid, seductive, sadistic, scandalous and, as one of the characters quips in German, full of schmutz. It might be the best ...

Even if it hadn’t been performed with such musical brilliance by a large and dedicated cast, and even if it hadn’t been staged with such inventive theatrical brio, you’d have to reckon the West Edge ...

Berg’s earlier opera, Wozzeck, is taut and perfunctory, like the Büchner play it’s based on. Lulu, a setting of a pair of wordy plays by the proto-expressionist Frank Wedekind, is brilliant, prolix, ...

Blood flows like ink in the Metropolitan Opera’s spellbinding new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu. That’s only as it should be, because the 1937 tragedy is the operatic version of a slasher film, ...

Alban Berg’s “Lulu” is an opera by a gifted Austrian composer steeped in the feverish psychosexual atmosphere of Sigmund Freud’s Vienna. Berg based his second and final stage work on two plays by the ...