Welser-Möst conducts Berg: Lulu

Alban Berg's final opera Lulu is like nothing else in 20th-century theatre. A psychodrama of a woman and her sexuality in a corrupt (and corrupting) world, it's set to music of shattering power and iridescent sensuality; an opera to disturb and seduce in equal measure. This 2001 staging from Zurich Opera made a powerful impression on critics at the time, with soprano Laura Aikin compelling as the morally ambivalent heroine, and Franz Welser-Möst drawing lustrous playing from the orchestra. Director Sven-Erich Bechtolf, meanwhile, calls on pop culture and Weimar cabaret to explore the dark underbelly of an opera that never gets any less compelling.

Soloists: 

Laura Aikin (Soprano), Peter Straka (Tenor), Andrea Bönig (Alto), Steve Davislim (Alto), Martin Zysset (Tenor), Werner Gröschel (Bass), Peter Keller (Tenor), Alfred Muff (Bass), Cornelia Kallisch (Mezzo-Soprano), Lynn Lange (Actor/Singer), Guido Götzen (Bass), Katharina Peetz (Mezzo-Soprano), Rolf Haunstein (Baritone)

Ensembles: 

Orchester des Opernhauses Zürich, Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Conductor: 

Franz Welser-Möst