Event listing: Lulu | Birmingham Hippodrome | Tue 5 Mar 2013 at 19:00

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Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham, West Midlands, B5 4TB, United Kingdom

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Programme

Berg, Alban (1885-1935)

Performers

Welsh National Opera
Lothar Koenigs	Conductor
Sir David Pountney	Director
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Welsh National Opera Chorus
Natascha Petrinsky	Mezzo-soprano	Countess Geschwitz
Patricia Orr	Mezzo-soprano	Theatrical Dresser
Paul Carey Jones	Baritone	Dr. Schön / Jack the Ripper
Peter Hoare	Tenor	Alwa
Richard Agnas	Baritone	Schigolch, an old man
Alan Oke	Tenor	Prince
Marie Arnet	Soprano	Lulu

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David Pountney and Welsh National Opera's superb new Lulu in Birmingham

Peter Marks, 5th March

Is it possible for us to feel a shred of sympathy for Lulu, surely one of opera’s most notorious anti-heroines, even when she meets her grizzly demise at the coda of Berg’s eponymous masterwork? I think it speaks volumes about the astonishing quality of soprano Marie Arnet’s performance that my answer to this question after seeing Welsh National Opera’s new production of Lulu is a most definite “n

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