American Lulu – review

Komische Oper, BerlinThe Komische Oper has a new boss, Australian director Barrie Kosky, who has wasted no time in putting his own mark on the repertoire. The season opened with Kosky's own productions of all three of Monteverdi's surviving operas, and they were followed with the premiere of the first in a series of specially commissioned works.Not that Olga Neuwirth's American Lulu is really brand new. It's very obviously conceived as a gloss on Berg's Lulu, transplanting the scenario to the ...

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