Berg: Lulu

Patricia Petibon (Lulu), Julia Juon (Countess Geschwitz), Ashley Holland (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Will Hartmann (Painter/Negro), Paul Groves (Alwa), Silvia de la Muela (Bell boy/Student), Franz Grundheber (Schigolch), Andreas Hörl (Athlete), Robert Wörle (Professor/Prince/Majordomo), Kurt Gysen...

The French soprano is in confident, fearless voice over the entire range of this killer part and paces herself with skill...There is an almost constant display of sex on view but it never pulls... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012 More…

Release Date: 17th Oct 2011
Catalogue No: 0734637
Label: DG

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Berg: Lulu

Patricia Petibon (Lulu), Julia Juon (Countess Geschwitz), Ashley Holland (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Will Hartmann (Painter/Negro), Paul Groves (Alwa), Silvia de la Muela (Bell boy/Student), Franz Grundheber (Schigolch), Andreas Hörl (Athlete), Robert Wörle (Professor/Prince/Majordomo), Kurt Gysen (Banker/Theatre’s director)
Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceu
Michael Boder

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Lulu is opera’s rawest exposition of the fatal risks of untamed erotic power. No man who meets Lulu does not want her − but, like the wind, she cannot be possessed. As happens to the heroine herself, the men who attempt to subdue her, and the one woman who also adores her, are destroyed by the flip side of the life force that pours through Lulu: death

Patricia Petibon is Lulu to the life. She sings Berg’s taxing music with easy, tonal beauty; the roles numerous acuti pose no problem. As The Weekend Australian observed: “Her top register, in particular, has a rich, luminous quality . . . that she exploits to great effect”

This live DVD of the Liceu’s 2010 hit production by Olivier Py also stars Franz Grundheber and Julia Juon. Michael Boder’s conducting brings out the sensuality and psychological disequilibrium of Berg’s 12-tone score.

The New York Times praised Petibon’s “earthy rawness”

Please note: This production contains nudity and sexual situations

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Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Michael Boder

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February 2012

The French soprano is in confident, fearless voice over the entire range of this killer part and paces herself with skill...There is an almost constant display of sex on view but it never pulls focus in the wrong way...Hugely recommended: more satisfying, and demanding, and with a fuller central performance, than any filmed Lulu to date, save that elusive Chereau.

Berg: Lulu

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