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	Lulu (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg.
		Lulu leaves to take the stage, but refuses to go on because Dr. Schön and his fiancee are in the audience.
		Lulu is being flmailed into working in a Cairo brothel by the Acrobat and a pimp; she is still wanted for Dr. Schön's murder and they will turn her in if she does not do as they say.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lulu_(opera) (1473 words)

	Lulu: Staging
		Lulu also gives us the opportunity to look in on the work of the director and the producer of the opera.
		In place of the third act “those fragments of Act III that Berg had incorporated in the Lulu Suite were presented, as ‘background music’ to a mainly pantomimed reconstruction of the final episode of the play, the murder of Lulu and the Countess by Jack the Ripper” (Perle 1985:266).
		What was seen on the stage of the Paris Opera was a vulgar and contemptible tragedy that converted the music of all three acts in relation to what was transpiring on the stage, into some sort of general background music at best and an utter irrelevancy much of the time” (ibid., 291).
	www.geocities.com /al6an6erg/lulu8.html (1507 words)

	Opera~Opera. Plot Summaries. B.
		Lulu wants him to take her for a drive, but he is due back at the stock exchange.
		Alwa finds Lulu no less beautiful than before and even her reminders that she shot his father and that they are on the couch where he bled to death fail to quell his ardor.
		Lulu is horrified at this reminder of her past beauty, but Alwa understands again the power which is driving him and hangs it on the wall.
	www.opera-opera.com.au /plotb.htm (13770 words)

	E-view
		Lulu's 'otherness' is also pointed out in her manifold coloratura arias, which, against a solid choir of low male voices, suggest in Adorno's terms (1968,p.277) that her 'absolute corporeality, her irresistibility and her in-humanity, her pre-humanity are one and the same thing'.
		Lulu's quest is initially safeguarded by Berghaus through a division between Lulu as subject and as object of desire that is represented in the Image, a gauze female silhouette standing between her and the gaze of her lovers.
		Lulu looses in Berghaus' reading when she refuses to accept a possibility of a more equal love with Geschwitz, which is installed in the erotic film scenes of the interval between the two women.
	comcom.uvt.nl /e-view/99-1/kolk.htm (4867 words)

	The Music Show - 05/04/2003: Simon Phillips
		The central character of Lulu is the main female role and she is surrounded by a succession of lovers and both willing and unwilling, and husbands who meet various unpleasant ends.
		There’s something about the way that the opera is constructed which makes liking her very difficult, and part of that, I wonder, is to do with the fact that the music, brilliant as it is, is not easy music to the ear.
		It is a rags-to-riches-to-rags kind of story in one way, and the three male figures who play Lulu’s successive husbands in the first half of the opera, return in the final scene of the opera as her three clients when she is reduced to working as a prostitute on the streets of London.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/music/mshow/s869842.htm (1619 words)

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		Lulu's first husband dies of a stroke when he finds her being pursued by the artist painting her portrait.
		Lulu is arrested and imprisoned, but escapes disguised as her lesbian admirer Countess Geschwitz.
		In Paris, at a party, a marquis threatens to expose Lulu as the murderer of Dr. Schön unless she agrees to be installed in a Cairo brothel.
	www.opera-australia.org.au /opera/oaweb.nsf/lookups/08A06708E546B0D0CA256C020004CBE1?editdocument (394 words)

	Sexual power of free spirit Lulu lives on - smh.com.au
		Alban Berg, composer of the opera Lulu, was three years old in 1888 when the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper caused profound alarm across London and began their author's transformation into legend.
		Lulu, in contrast, is the story of a free spirit whose sexual power is irresistible to men and women: one of the most sympathetic characters in the drama is a lesbian, the Countess Geschwitz.
		Lulu leaves a trail of suicidal and assassinated victims as long as she remains true to her own free will.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/07/1049567619089.html (1150 words)

	JS Online: 'Lulu' skims the surface of steamy tale
		In five years, "Lulu" had four husbands, lovers on the side and paying customers, not to mention a countess who went ga-ga over her.
		Lulu moves through dramatic life changes - from child-wife to wealthy widow to streetwalker victim of Jack the Ripper - in the play, but the story has no arc in this staging.
		Lulu is often considered a symbol of survival.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/oct01/lulu20101901.asp (711 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| Eilana Lappalainen
		Berg's opera is written with Arnold Schoenberg's infamous 12-tone row, which throws out standard scales, allows equal weight to all 12 tones within an octave--and gives singers migraines.
		The light at the end of Lappalainen's tunnel is Lulu herself, whom she calls the most developed character she's ever performed.
		Lulu was an orphan, rescued from the streets at age 13, and she survived through the help of men.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.04.98/opera-9822.html (817 words)

	ANGELO MINGHETTI
		According to one critic she showed a "light lyric voice, well suited to her chosen music." Lulu was to appear with him from time to time until at last it became apparent that her talents were less inclined to the stage than they were to the role of a wife, mother and friend.
		Lulu delivered their second child, a son, just before the end of the Sydney season and at Adelaide there was a baptism and a celebration in their honour.
		Lulu and Angelo now had two children to care for and the days of long journeys were permanently behind them.
	chalosse.free.fr /masterpieces/step-one/MINGHETTI.htm (5823 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2004-05 Broadcasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lulu, with its phantasmagorical elements (both dramatic and musical), represented a new direction for Berg, beyond the Expressionist mood of Wozzeck and toward a sardonic, ironically modern feeling.
		Though he was a "pure Aryan", Berg's closeness to Schoenberg and their joint "decadent modernism" guaranteed the eclipse of their music from Central Europe during the Hitler era, and some of his manuscripts survived the Second World War only because they had been buried in a hiding place.
		Despite her distaste for the subject matter of Lulu, Helene Berg remained devoted to her husband's music through the nightmare decade that followed his death, and did not destroy the pages she refused to have performed during her lifetime.
	archive.operainfo.org /broadcast/composer.cgi?id=57&language=1 (859 words)

	Marjorie Lawrence 2001 Evelyn Lear Bio - Opera Music Theater International
		She has appeared as a star with virtually every major opera company in the United States, from the Metropolitan Opera to San Francisco Opera, and in Europe has appeared at La Scala, Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, Vienna State Opera, and the Berlin, Hamburg and Munich Operas.
		In the meantime, she was in constant demand throughout the world repeating her success in Lulu, an opera she recorded along with Berg's Wozzeck.
		Later she sang Octavian in the major opera houses of the world such as Vienna, Berlin, and the Metropolitan.
	www.omti.org /mlivc2001/lear.html (735 words)

	JarmanLulu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is this same hypocrisy that forms the subject of Lulu in which, by doubling the roles of Lulu’s husbands and clients, the respectable bourgeois figures that inhabit the haute-monde of the first half of the opera are equated with the shady figures that inhabit the demi-monde of the final scene.
		In Wedekind’s Lulu plays Schon’s son, Alwa, is a writer, and in the second of the two plays is revealed as being the author of the first.
		In Berg’s Lulu Alwa is a composer and - as is revealed in Act I scene 3, when Alwa, accompanied by the opening chords of Wozzeck, muses on the possibility of writing an opera on the events in which he is involved - is specifically identified as Berg himself.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~eirish/Jarman.html (323 words)

	Lulu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the 5th of December 2003 the curtain will rise in the Opera House of the State Theater Stuttgart on one of the highlights of the Stuttgart Ballet's 2003/2004 season: the world premiere of Lulu.
		Lulu is not only the main character of Christian Spuck's new ballet but also one of the most fascinating and scintillating figures in the literary world.
		To receive the love she demands, Lulu betrays her men, sacrifices her life, and in the end, her uncompromising obsession with love becomes her final ruin.
	www.stuttgart-ballet.de /english/e_ballette/e_lulu.html (326 words)

	Print Article: Lulu, Opera Australia
		The most disturbing scene is the first: a child, Lulu, is pawed, displayed and paraded as an object of future lust.
		The picture of Lulu, created by the painter in the first scene, is a large Marilyn-like canvas varied in Warholesque details in each scene.
		In the instrumental interludes even the conductor herself, in bright Lulu red, is captured on the giant reflector, as though a musical image of Lulu herself, driving the music while her double drives the drama.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/09/10/1062902113179.html (540 words)

	Lulu Glaser Papers
		Provenance: All of Lulu Glaser's belongings were sent to her sister-in-law upon her death; when her sister-in-law passed away in 1981, Princeton University purchased the entire collection.
		Born June 2, 1874 in Sewickly, Pennsylvania, Lulu Glaser was an early fan of the theater.
		Lulu Glaser passed away on September 5, 1958, at the age of 84.
	libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/tc033.html (1238 words)

	Today's Opera News -- Metropolitan Opera Schedule -- AllAboutOpera.com
		He was head-hunted and hired by the prestigious Opera Company of Philadelphia, home of the oldest opera theatre in the United States, and leaves Dec. 23 to become its new managing director.
		The much-anticipated opera has been on the radar since it was announced in 2002 -- and judging by Adams's previous two, this was an occasion not to be missed.
		Using the melodies of familiar operas such as Mozart's "The Magic Flute" and Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," the opera company and chorus told the tale of a typical bully and his intended victims in both song and dialogue.
	www.allaboutopera.com /news/index.php (4454 words)

	Ensemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This new production of Lulu must surely be counted as one of the most outstanding achievements in the history of the ENO, fully worthy to rank alongside such notable enterprises as the Goodall Ring.
		Given some disastrous recent productions of standard operatic repertoire by the house, I approached the Lulu experience with some apprehension, since it is a far-from-conventional opera in the first place, but the result is a triumph in all departments.
		At the most superficial level, it is richly entertaining and hugely enjoyable, and the music is simply ravishing, gripping the listener from its first bars to the end of a long evening.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2002/06/lulu1.htm (231 words)

	James Wierzbicki / operatic heroines
		The bar image neatly underscores the opera's symmetrical dramatic structure; the plot deals with Lulu's rise and then her demise, and the pantomime (a three-minute silent film in the original 1937 production in Zurich) comes precisely at the turning point.
		The bar image also emphasizes Ljubimov's point of view on the character of Lulu; she may be the sweetest, but she's definitely a beast, a less-than-human creature that can be tolerated only when she's caged.
		However one cares to view the character of Lulu and the opera she dominates, it remains that the Chicago production - which runs through Dec. 19 - is technically, visually and musically splendid.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/heroines.htm (2785 words)

	Opera Glass: Lulu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		San Francisco Opera's summer Femmes Fatales Festival presents a fascinating trio of women for whom men have an obsessive, often fatal attraction.
		Lulu, too, seems destined for an unhappy demise, but in Lulu she might not have as much control as her two SFO sisters.
		In Berg's libretto, based on two Frank Wedekind plays, Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box, the amoral Lulu is a victim of her own nature -- a woman who is solely defined by men, named by them and almost totally dependent upon them for protection.
	opera.stanford.edu /reviews/lulu.html (526 words)

	Records International catalogue October 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His 42 operas are now finally represented by this live recording from 1979 of a comic opera written in Venice in 1766; charming and amusing, ranging from buffo bluster to lyric cantabile and making use of programmatic orchestral effects, this was Traetta's most popular opera.
		Premiered in 1777, this is Cimarosa's ninth opera, setting a libretto au courant with the tastes of the times (an extremely complicated situation involving the intertwining lives and destinies of three couples - one lowborn and comical, one middle-class and one aristocratic and the object of satirical digs).
		Giordani was a prolific and acclaimed opera composer (over 40 works) but his instrumental works were totally neglected until this enterprising resurrection of light, delicate, clear and uncomplicated works in the high Classical style with a touch of the galante among some of the movements.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogOct98.html (11710 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts Friday Review \| Going out with a bang
		In place of the painting of Lulu that retains its beauty even during her downfall, Konwitschny disturbingly gives us a life-size doll, which, like Dorian Gray's portrait, gradually mutates into a hideous icon of degradation.
		His successor is Simone Young, the former music director of Opera Australia, from which she departed, earlier this year, ironically, amid statements that her "future visions for the artistic growth of the company are not sustainable by OA in its current financial position".
		Born in Australia, Young first came to prominence in Germany and is familiar in the UK to audiences at Covent Garden, where her interpretations of the mainstream repertoire have been variable.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1089291,00.html (1207 words)

	Flash 1
		Lulu is the consummate object of desire, a creature who is perpetually adored even when she commits the most heinous crimes."
		More important, Lulu's seduction of us consisted of repeated knowing glances into the audience, as if to say we knew what she wanted, but I'm not so sure she knew what she wanted, navel-highlighting costume notwithstanding.
		In the ballet-ending gesture, Brule's Lulu brushes a hand over a sort of electric Weber (burning coals in the middle, glowing green cable rimming it, the whole conceived by Daniel James and designed by John Musall).
	www.danceinsider.com /f69.html (782 words)

	The Opera Angel Of Music - NW Painc Investing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The devil's party: Peter Conrad succumbs to the demonic creativity of Rubinstein's rare opera.
		Lulu -- the polymorphous and gleefully perverse heroine of Frank Wedekind's sex tragedies, Pabst's film Pandora's Box, and Berg's opera -- is the obscure...(keep on reading)
		Russian opera singer Galina Gorchakova affirms that music is the soul's nourishment.
	www.nwpainc.com /the-opera-angel-of-music.htm (215 words)

	Paid Surveys International free work at home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 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.
		It might be said that the 20th Century brought along opera's entry into the adult age.
	www.paidsurveysinternational.com /ItemId/B00014NE76 (687 words)

	Mount Allison University News and Events
		SACKVILLE, NB - Windsor Theatre and the Mount Allison University Department of Music are pleased to present Lulu: Envoicing the Femme Fatale, a performance of four scenes from Alban Berg's opera Lulu with feminist and musicological commentary.
		Lulu is an opera that truly has it all.
		Performing in Lulu: Envoicing the Femme Fatale will be Dr. Helen Pridmore (Lulu), Chris Bowman (Alwa), Garry Williams (Dr. Schon and Jack) and Jennie Wood (Countess Geschwitz).
	www.mta.ca /news/index.cgi?id=50 (605 words)

	Lulu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A character in the RPG Final Fantasy X: see Lulu (Final Fantasy)
		Friends of Lulu, an organization that promotes female readership and particpation in the comic book industry
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lulu (115 words)

	Stratas Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The occasion was the world premiere of the full-length version of Alban Berg’s opera, Lulu, most of the third act of which had been suppressed for years by his widow.
		The opera world, which has always assumed it has the monopoly on fiery temperaments and is ever ready to continue the tradition, provided her with the sobriquet “the baby Callas” right from the start.
		I was singing to sewer rats.” Soon, having learned her first song - Pistol-Packin’ Mama - the five-year-old sang for patrons in the family restaurant; the listeners threw nickels and dimes to her; later, she was to sing torch songs at nightclubs.
	www.wideopenwest.com /~eirish/Article1.html (2445 words)

	Music Book World - Music Books, Sheet Music and much more!
		Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music.
		However, the words of the opera, or libretto, are sung rather than spoken.
		Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the dialogue and plot-driving passages often sung in a non-melodic style characteristic of opera, and aria, during which the movement of the plot often stops and the music and the singers focus on one topic using full voice.
	musicbookworld.com /opera.htm (380 words)

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