Lulu

Lulu is Alban Berg’s unfinished opera, based on Frank Wedekind’s plays about a woman whose relationships end in violence and death.

Pandora’s Box: A play by Frank Wedekind that forms the second part of his Lulu drama. Berg drew the opera’s final act from this play.
Frank Wedekind: A German playwright whose works challenged social conventions and theatrical censorship. His Lulu plays supplied the opera’s characters and dramatic episodes.
Lulu Suite: A concert suite assembled from orchestral music in Berg’s opera Lulu. It presents major musical ideas from the opera without staging its full drama.
Lulu (opera) 1937 premiere: The Zurich premiere of Lulu’s first two acts in 1937, before the opera’s completion. Berg’s death left the third act unavailable for the initial production.
Earth Spirit: A play by Frank Wedekind that forms the first part of his Lulu drama. Berg based the opera’s first two acts on this play.
Lulu (play cycle): Frank Wedekind’s two-play drama about Lulu, comprising Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box. The opera condenses and reshapes this source cycle.
Palindromic form: A musical structure whose sections unfold in reverse order around a central point. Berg uses mirrored dramatic and musical patterns in the opera’s central act.
Alban Berg’s Lulu: unfinished third act: The surviving sketches and partially orchestrated score for Lulu’s final act. Berg’s widow opposed completing the act, delaying a full-stage version.
Alban Berg: An Austrian composer associated with the Second Viennese School and works combining tonality with atonality. He composed Lulu and left its orchestration incomplete at his death.
1937 in music: A year in music history marked by notable premieres, compositions, and musical events. Lulu’s first two acts premiered in Zurich in 1937.

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