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Stan Strickland with Aisha Kalilah and Sundance, Afro-Asian jazz--at Lulu's, 3 Appleton St., Boston, Sunday at 9. Also at Webster School Courtyard, 15 Upton St., Cambridge, Saturday at 7:30, free...
This is the Metropolitan Opera's second season under the joint leadership of Music Director James Levine, 34, and Director of Production John Dexter, 52. They are men of skill and self-assurance, and when they succeed, as they did last winter with Berg's Lulu, they justify the Met's often advertised suggestion that to buy one of its tickets is to "strike a blow for civilization." When Levine and Dexter miss, they raise worries about the wisdom of dual artistic control. Last week's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto was about...
Travis Hudson makes the most of Lulu, a veteran vaudevillian of hearty humor, whom she turns into an amusing cross between Mae West and Patsy Kelly. She has fun with the low range of "My Husband's First Wife," and the perky syncopations of "Naughty Boy." She and Jay Garner (as Lulu's flashily dressed husband and partner), aided by a pair of tambourines, go to town on "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You," another older piece that Kern interpolated in this show. As their mousy but well-to-do cousin Rupert, John Remme is especially comical when...
Dexter's task was equally difficult. Lulu is a walking, talking bundle of erotic radioactivity. Known in other places as Woman, Femme Fatale, the Temptress, she is a rough operatic equivalent of Don Giovanni. She consumes the men-and one lesbian-who love her, then is consumed by them and destroyed. She ends up as a streetwalker, and the final slash of the knife is delivered by none other than Jack the Ripper. Some stage directors choose to play up the trampy side of Lulu. Dexter has made her an innocent, totally unaware of the evil effect...
...production of Lulu has a special problem. Berg had not finished the orchestration of the third and last act when he died in 1935. In the years thereafter and in her will (she died last August), Berg's widow steadfastly refused to allow publication of his sketches for the act. Yet one who has seen them, American Composer George Perle, says that they are complete enough to make orchestration a relatively easy matter...