Word: particella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dancer whose almost mythic embodiment of the erotic principle wreaks universal destruction and death, seemed to be the one modern opera that had everything: electrifying theatricality, sex, moral seriousness, virtuoso scoring-everything, that is, except a third act. When he died in 1935, Berg had completed the third act particella, or short score; but he left the orchestration incomplete and the act was never published. Ever since, opera companies have had to present Lulu in two acts, with a makeshift third act tacked...
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