Frank Wedekind

A group of late 19th century German teenagers – silenced and controlled by a censorious society – discover a new world of feeling and freedom outside the classroom, with beautiful and devastating consequences.

The tale of teenagers growing up in an oppressed society, finding ways to fight back and discovering as individuals who they truly are.

William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and alluring woman who is equal parts femme fatale, innocent girl, and abused victim. The men around her, whose lives she forever alters, are Johan Reuter as newspaper publisher Dr. Schön; Daniel Brenna as his composer son, Alwa; Paul Groves as the Painter; and Franz Grundheber as Schigolch. Susan Graham sings Countess Geschwitz, and Lothar Koenigs conducts Berg’s landmark score.

A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Schiller Theater in Berlin. The opera, dark and satirical in tone, charts the story of the rise and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and, eventually, a bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper.

La ópera Lulu, escrita por A. Berg, quedó inconclusa - su tercer acto no fue completado por el compositor. Un fragmento se representó por primera vez el 2 de junio de 1937 en la Ópera de Zúrich. La ópera fue completada por el compositor austriaco contemporáneo F. Cerchoi, que terminó el tercer acto, y su versión completa se estrenó en la Ópera de París el 24 de febrero de 1979, dirigida por Pierre Boulez (con Teresa Stratas en el papel principal). La ópera se basó en las tragedias del escritor alemán Frank Wedekind "Earthly Spirit" y "Pandora's Box". A. Berg logró reelaborar estos dramas de tal manera que conservó el texto original de las réplicas de los héroes de Wedekind en 3 actos de su ópera. La ópera describe el auge social de una mujer joven en la sociedad burguesa, que termina con el asesinato de su amado hombre y la caída posterior cuando ella, después de haberse convertido en una prostituta, muere a manos de su último amante.

Young adults growing up in an oppressed society, finding ways to fight back and discovering as individuals who they truly are.

New peoduction, 2009. Filmed by the Royal Opera House in co-production with Opus Arte, June 13/17.

Principios del siglo XX. En la región alemana de Turingia, un grupo de jóvenes de 16 años son educadas lejos del mundanal ruido, en medio de bosques impenetrables. Sometidas a una disciplina de hierro por la directora de la escuela (Jacqueline Bisset), se encuentran aterradas debido a la extraña desaparición de dos de ellas. Para investigar el caso, se desplaza hasta allí un inspector de policía (Enrico Lo Verso), que altera el mundo de las adolescentes.

Iris, una niña de seis años, descubre rápidamente cuáles son las normas del internado en el que, principalmente, se enseña danza, educación física y biología. La obediencia es primordial, y aquella interna que se rebele y trate de escapar será condenada a servir a las demás y a permanecer en el internado para siempre. A medida que pasa el tiempo, Iris se va acostumbrandoa su nueva vida. Sin embargo, hay algo que la confunde: todos los días, a las nueve de la noche, un retumbo subterráneo resuena en el corazón del bosque donde se sitúa el internado, y Bianca, la mayor de las internas, abandona el edificio para participar en una reunión secreta. Una noche, Iris la sigue hasta la casa donde se alojan las profesoras. En la misma, todo parece desierto. Incluso Bianca parece haberse desvanecido en el aire... Un drama sobre un grupo de niñas estudiantes en un idílico bosque encantado con reminiscencias a "Picnic en Hanging Rock". (FILMAFFINITY)

Since its premiere on 2 June 1937 in Zurich, Alban Berg's second opera "Lulu" has the reputation of being surrounded by scandals. On the one hand, this is due to the dubious character of the subject, the man-eating femme fatale, which Berg had taken from Frank Wedekind's two Lulu tragedies – "The Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box" – and combined into one opera libretto. On the other hand, Berg's window had (for personal reasons) repeatedly refused to have the opera completed, which was unfinished when Berg died. This video is of the unfinished two-act torso of "Lulu."

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make trouble", from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Berg's score is intensely beautiful, and the rich characterisation brilliantly executed.

Peter Zadek's 1988 production with Susanne Lothar, recorded at the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in 1991.

Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.

This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed. A kinetic melodrama of the rise of a femme-fatale and her fate at the hands of Jack-the-Ripper. Rethinking Pabst's silent film and Alban Berg's opera.

Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting. The film attempts to display sexual barriers and misconceptions, and about the role-playing and the confusion around the whole question of sexual and sensual involvement. The essence is the confrontation with self-deception, lies and the real fear of contact with both sexes.

A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor's pocket. The doctor ends up taking her in and turning her into a sophisticated lady, whom he marries off to a wealthy man.

Munich in the summer of 1899. In his insatiable greed for money, influence and enjoyment of life, the Marquis von Keith defies any moral law. Two women are obedient to him.

Lulú (Louise Brooks) es mujer ambiciosa y sin moral que usa a los hombres a su voluntad. Desinhibida y atractiva, el aprovechamiento de sus encantos conllevará también sus peligros. Obra mayor del expresionismo que encumbró a Louise Brooks, una joya del cine mudo que adaptó magistralmente la obra teatral "Lulu" de Wedeking.

Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and Lust”, he is indeed kicked out – instead of classmate Melchior Gabor, who actually penned it. Gabor was drawing on his experiences with neighbourhood girl Wendla. Then Wendla turns up pregnant. Stiefel descends into despair ... Exploitation between Eros and Thanatos in this “sexual tragedy of youth” based on Frank Wedekind’s play. Setting the film in the 1920s provided a chance to explore “modern” youth culture, complete with cigarettes, jazz music, the gramophone, and a goodly bit of alcohol. Richard Oswald, a master of films of manners and young sex beginning in the 1910s, fully explores the temptations of the youthful body, even early childhood flirtatiousness. At the same time, with his target audience in mind, the film laments the bigotry and double standards of the adult world.

Based on the play of the same name by Frank Wedekind.

Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go.

Based on the play Der Erdgeist by Frank Wedekind.

King Nicolo through hit egoism and slackness has lost his fame and power is now deposed, completely alone and walks through his former empire, unrecognized, in constant fear of people whom are foreign to him.

Based on the play of the same name by Frank Wedekind.

The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the noble Henri von Reithofen. Henri kills himself ruined by the horrendous expenses for Lulu. She however is fishing for the next rich patron, the much older Baron Waldheim. His son knows Lulu and warns his father that she will also hurt him. Waldheim succumbs to Lulus's insinuations and punishes his son.