A scene from the New York Metropolitan Opera’s production of Alban Berg’s Lulu. (Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

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 ...

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 ...