Word: lulu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...libretto, drawn from Jakob Michael Lenz's 1776 play, concerns the seduction and degradation of a middle-class girl, Marie, by a group of soldiers, among others. The opera's connections with Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu are obvious. Wozzeck too is about soldiers and their sordid love lives and has a heroine named Marie; like Die Soldaten, it is constructed in 15 self-contained, even aphoristic, scenes. Lulu-like Die Soldaten, a twelve-tone opera-similarly features a heroine who ends up a common prostitute. Zimmermann deliberately invoked the shade of his illustrious predecessor; the challenge...
...reputation for temperamental perfectionism that has given headaches to many a colleague and caused her to cancel a number of important engagements. Blessed with a large voice that easily spans three octaves, Stratas was selected to sing the title role in Alban Berg's thorny twelve-tone shocker Lulu, when the complete opera-with its suppressed third act orchestrated by Friedrich Cerha-was given its world premiere in Paris in 1979. The late conductor Karl Böhm, mindful of Stratas' electric stage presence and lithe figure, chose her for his filmed version of Richard Strauss...
...famous Habanera while engaging in some erotic byplay with a cigar, thrusting it into Don José's mouth at the words "L'amour, I 'amour. " In its total bleakness this is Carmen seen by a man familiar with Alban Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, twin 20th century masterpieces of love, alienation and despair. The production also reflects Brook's distaste for conventional Bizet, which goes back to the time, 30 years ago, when he was production chief at London's Royal Opera House. "I looked with horror at how it was being...
...character in film noir, relying on our memories of his explosions in other films to know that he has it in him. Real blood-and-guts American rage and confession would expose the tasteful, arid Englishness of the Reed-Bryant quarrels and love scenes (although there's a lulu of a fight when she starts beating on his pretty face). Anyway, Nicholson is mesmerizing, playing O'Neill as a smug asshole. What other actor would have the courage to give a performance this dark and disgusting...
...from which the Beatles appropriately sprang) were an era of fine, ripe exaggeration-all of that bright, angry, lulu rhetoric parading in costume across the counterculture and the war zone,en route to conciouseness III. America was amerika. the young were "freaks", the police were "pigs" a hundred different chemical substances were on hand to perform radical exaggerations in the brain. The 80's seem to be taking a preppier line with reality; certain voices run to understatement now. Still, a great deal of exaggeration has been built into the culture and, of course, the traditional home of exaggeration...