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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780769722535 Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC ISBN: 0769722539 Label: Kultur Video Manufacturer: Kultur Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kultur Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 13, 2004 Running Time: 183 minutes Studio: Kultur Video Sales Rank: 24195 MPN: 2253
Description: Winner of the 1997 Gramaphone Award for Best Video! This production by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stars Christine Schafer, Kathryn Harries, and Wolfgang Schone. With its intensely beautiful score, this is one of the greatest operatic masterpieces of the 20th century. Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic. Subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese. Color, 183 minutes.
Amazon.com: 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 is 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. --Roz Kaveney
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Gripping!
Just a word for other folks who watch opera as they do operetta or Broadway musicals, for the gratification of the thing in itself. Deeper meanings, musical technicalities, the place of this opera in the ... Read More
Rating: - Repulsive Beauty
Alban Berg's two operas, Wozzeck and Lulu, are the epitome of German Expressionism, like a canvas by Max Beckmann or Otto Dix set to music and staged. Whether you choose to interpret them as powerful sermons ... Read More
Rating: - An outstanding performance of a masterpiece
This is the only commercial DVD release of Berg's Lulu in complete 3 acts. I like the performance here. Christine Schäfer is a great champion of modern music and "Lulu of our time". Her performance is outstanding, ... Read More
Rating: - Lulu ou bien Loulou?
Les spécialistes se souviennent de la Lulu de Pabst, mais aussi de celle d'Anja Sija, dans un opéra-filmé qui ressortira peut-être un jour en DVD. Et puis il y eut la référence absolue : celle de l'Opéra de Paris, ... Read More
Rating: - Lulu Review
This is an amazing performance of Berg's Lulu. The impressive acting and singing may help distract you from music that is quite difficult to comprehend.
- Gripping!
- Repulsive Beauty
- Lulu Review