Berg’s earlier opera, Wozzeck, is taut and perfunctory, like the Büchner play it’s based on. Lulu, a setting of a pair of wordy plays by the proto-expressionist Frank Wedekind, is brilliant, prolix, ...

William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s atonal opera “Lulu” is sordid, seductive, sadistic, scandalous and, as one of the characters quips in German, full of schmutz. It might be the best ...

If the Metropolitan Opera decided to concentrate its entire mission into a single night, that show might look a lot William Kentridge’s production of Lulu. Berg’s 80-year-old opera is both a classic ...

Christof Loy’s mind-numbingly tedious staging of Berg’s Lulu achieves the impossible – it allows Berg’s masterpiece to come across as a turgid and overlong evening of musical endurance. If it weren’t ...

Blood flows like ink in the Metropolitan Opera’s spellbinding new production of Alban Berg’s Lulu. That’s only as it should be, because the 1937 tragedy is the operatic version of a slasher film, ...

The video design of Kentridge’s sweeping black brush action sketches seen against a background of newspaper print creates an apt illustration to the tale of the rise and fall of celebrity femme fatale ...