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

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Reviewed at Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham on 5 March 2013
Berg, Lulu
Lothar Koenigs, Conductor
Sir David Pountney, Director
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Welsh National Opera Chorus
Natascha Petrinsky, Countess Geschwitz
Patricia Orr, Theatrical Dresser
Paul Carey Jones, Dr. Schön / Jack the Ripper
Peter Hoare, Alwa
Richard Agnas, Schigolch, an old man
Alan Oke, Prince
Marie Arnet, Lulu
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