Event listing: American Lulu | King's Theatre, Edinburgh | Event is in the past

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King's Theatre, Edinburgh2 Leven Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 9LQ, United Kingdom

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Festival: Edinburgh International Festival

Programme

Berg, Alban (1885-1935)

Performers

Scottish Opera
Gerry Cornelius	Conductor
John Fulljames	Director
Angel Blue	Soprano	Lulu
Jacqui Dankworth	Vocals	Eleanor
Donald Maxwell	Bass	Dr Bloom
Robert Winslade Anderson	Bass	Clarence
Jonathan Stoughton	Tenor	Jimmy
Paul Curievici	Tenor	The Painter
Simon Wilding	Bass	Athlete
Paul Reeves	Bass	Commissioner

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Edinburgh International Festival: Olga Neuwirth's American Lulu

Alan Coady, 31st August

In his programme note, director John Fulljames remarked that “any opera has many layers of authorship”, and that is truer of American Lulu than most.Alban Berg compiled the original libretto for Lulu (1929–34) from two plays by Frank Wedekind: Erdgreist (“Earth Spirit”, 1895) and Die Büsche der Pandora (“Pandora’s Box”, 1904). At the time of Berg”s death in 1935 the third act remained incomplete.

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