Berg: Lulu – review

Migenes/Lear/Riegel/Mazura/Metropolitan Opera Orchestra/Levine (Sony, 2DVDs)Pride of place among the recent DVD releases from Sony's Met Archive series goes to this performance of Lulu. It was taped in 1980 during the first US run to use Friedrich Cerha's completed version of the score. Some might find John Dexter's production conservative by modern standards: set at the turn of the 20th century, it's played naturalistically and with considerable restraint. But its toned-down quality also emphas...

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