CHAN 3130(3) Wide Cover.qxd 11/9/06 1:05 pm Page 1 CHAN 3130(3) Alban BergLulu PETER MOORES FOUNDATION CHAN 3130 BOOK.qxd 11/9/06 12:56 pm Page 2 Alban Berg (1885–1935) Lulu Opera in three acts Libretto by Alban Berg, after Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind, English version by Richard Stokes Act III realised by Friedrich Cerha Lebrecht Music and Arts Library Photo Music Lebrecht Lulu..................................................................................................................Lisa Saffer soprano Countess Geschwitz ............................................................................Susan Parry mezzo-soprano Dresser/Schoolboy/Waiter ..............................................................Anna Burford mezzo-soprano Professor of Medicine/Theatre Manager/Banker ........................................Graeme Danby bass Painter/Second Client ......................................................................................Stuart Kale tenor Dr Schön/Jack the Ripper ..................................................................Robert Hayward baritone Alwa, Dr Schön’s son ..............................................................................John Graham-Hall tenor Schigolch......................................................................................................Gwynne Howell bass Animal Tamer/Acrobat ..........................................................................Robert Poulton baritone African Prince/Manservant/Marquis ..................................................................Alan Oke tenor Police Commissioner ........................................................................................Roger Begley bass Fifteen-year-old Girl..................................................................................Claire Mitcher soprano Servant..................................................................................................Paul Napier-Burrows bass Mother ................................................................................................Jane Powell mezzo-soprano Designer ......................................................................................................Moira Harris soprano Journalist..........................................................................................Toby Stafford-Allen baritone English National Opera Orchestra Paul Daniel Alban Berg Anthony Legge assistant conductor 3 CHAN 3130 BOOK.qxd 11/9/06 12:56 pm Page 4 COMPACT DISC ONE Time Page Time Page Prologue 13 ‘He’s not quite what I imagined him to be’ 4:16 [p. 127] Schigolch, Lulu, Dr Schön 1 ‘Roll up, roll up for the menagerie’ 4:20 [p. 116] 14 ‘If you and I married’ 6:26 [p. 129] Animal tamer Dr Schön, Lulu, Painter 15 ‘So?’ – ‘Your marriage has made you at least a million Act I marks…’ 5:03 [p. 132] Scene One Painter, Dr Schön, Lulu 2 ‘Am I trespassing?’ 2:01 [p.117] 16 ‘Don’t talk so loud’ 3:26 [p. 136] Alwa, Dr Schön, Lulu Dr Schön, Alwa, Lulu 3 ‘Gnädige Frau… Frau Medizinalrat…’ 1:38 [p. 118] 17 Verwandlung [Transformation] 3:27 [p. 139] Painter, Lulu 4 ‘You are far too slow to capture me’ 0:51 [p. 119] Scene Three Lulu, Painter 18 ‘I’ve never in my life known an audience so excited’ 2:16 [p. 139] 5 ‘What’s happening?’ 0:46 [p. 121] Alwa, Lulu Painter, Lulu 19 ‘More for me, please’ 1:31 [p. 140] 6 ‘Open the door!’ 0:56 [p. 122] Lulu, Alwa Professor of Medicine, Lulu, Painter 20 ‘That girl and her lovers’ 1:12 [p. 141] 7 ‘Just wait, he’ll jump right up…’ 1:31 [p. 123] Alwa Lulu 21 ‘I met her first at Dr Schön’s’ 1:33 [p. 141] 8 ‘Can’t you help him recover his senses? 2:12 [p. 123] African Prince, Alwa Painter, Lulu 22 ‘She’s had a sort of fainting fit’ 0:33 [p. 142] 9 ‘You make me jealous, you lucky bastard!’ 1:44 [p. 124] Dresser, Alwa, Theatre Manager, Prince, Lulu Painter 23 ‘What’s wrong with her?’ 1:09 [p. 143] 10 ‘Please help me do this up’ 1:44 [p. 124] Dr Schön, Alwa, Lulu, Dresser, Theatre Manager, Prince Lulu 24 ‘How dare you attempt to ruin my well-laid plans?’ 5:01 [p. 144] Dr Schön, Lulu Scene Two 25 ‘Take this pen and paper’ 2:59 [p. 146] 11 ‘Eva!’ – ‘What is it?’ 1:10 [p. 125] Lulu, Dr Schön 12 ‘Eva!’ – What is it?’ 1:53 [p. 126] TT 60:44 Painter, Lulu 4 5 CHAN 3130 BOOK.qxd 11/9/06 12:56 pm Page 6 COMPACT DISC TWO Time Page Time Page Act II Scene Two Scene One 14 ‘We’re like the players waiting for a bandleader’ 4:30 [p. 164] 1 ‘Delighted that you will be there this evening’ 3:17 [p. 148] Acrobat, Countess Geschwitz, Alwa, Schigolch Countess Geschwitz, Dr Schön, Lulu 15 ‘This way is shorter’ 6:09 [p. 166] 2 ‘Why not stay here?’ 1:58 [p. 149] Alwa, Acrobat, Schoolboy Lulu, Dr Schön 16 ‘Hey, little Lulu, it’s time we scarpered over the border’ 4:14 [p. 169] 3 ‘Thank the Lord, that at last we’re…’ 2:22 [p. 150] Schigolch, Acrobat, Lulu, Alwa Schigolch, Acrobat, Schoolboy, Lulu 17 ‘You’re still as ravishing and youthful as in your portrait’ 3:45 [p. 171] 4 ‘You know it’s she he really wanted to marry’ 0:45 [p. 152] 18 ‘Beneath this dress I feel your form in harmony’ 3:55 [p. 172] Acrobat, Schigolch, Schoolboy, Lulu Alwa, Lulu 5 ‘I hope you locked the windows’ 1:39 [p. 153] TT 51:54 Schigolch, Lulu, Acrobat, Manservant, Schoolboy 6 ‘The matineé will be lit by ultra-violet light’ 3:15 [p. 154] COMPACT DISC THREE Alwa, Lulu, Manservant Act III 7 ‘Is he ill?’ 2:55 [p. 156] Scene One Alwa, Lulu, Manservant, Dr Schön 1 ‘Gentlemen and Ladies!’ 2:42 [p. 173] 8 ‘His father!’ 0:57 [p. 158] Acrobat, Banker, Journalist, Marquis, Alwa, Lulu, Lulu, Dr Schön, Alwa, Acrobat Waiter, Servant, Designer, Mother, Fifteen-year-old Girl, 9 ‘And where did he go?’ 2:55 [p. 158] Countess Geschwitz, Alwa Dr Schön, Lulu, Countess Geschwitz 2 ‘Get to the point and say how much you want from me’ 0:51 [p. 177] 10 ‘Even though men have killed themselves because of who Lulu, Marquis I am’ 2:27 [p. 160] 3 ‘Of the countless nubile, fun-loving lasses’ 2:09 [p. 177] Lulu 4 ‘The magistrate will reward anyone who finds the 11 ‘Kneel down, murderous bitch!’ 2:42 [p. 160] murderess’ 3:06 [p. 178] Dr Schön, Schoolboy, Lulu, Alwa Marquis, Lulu 12 ‘You can’t deliver me up for trial!’ 1:05 [p. 162] 5 ‘It’s good! It’s looking good!’ 1:35 [p. 179] Lulu, Alwa, Countess Geschwitz, Schoolboy Alwa, Journalist, Banker, Designer, Mother, Lulu, 13 Film Music 2:58 [p. 162] Fifteen-year-old Girl, Acrobat, Marquis, Waiter, Servant, Countess Geschwitz 6 7 CHAN 3130 BOOK.qxd 11/9/06 12:56 pm Page 8 Time Page We were lucky enough to capture Berg’s 6 ‘May I intrude?’ 2:18 [p. 181] Acrobat, Lulu theatrical masterpiece in Spring 2005, fresh 7 ‘Message for the Bank Director’ 0:59 [p. 183] from its first revival at the London Coliseum, Waiter, Banker, Lulu where its premiere by English National Opera 8 ‘I need some money, in ready cash’ 3:28 [p. 183] in 2002 enjoyed immense critical success. As Schigolch, Lulu Lulu, award-winning soprano Lisa Saffer leads 9 ‘You could at least treat me with respect!’ 2:38 [p. 186] a cast of dazzling vocal virtuosity, conducted Acrobat, Marquis, Lulu by Paul Daniel with great verve and 10 ‘Martha!’ 2:21 [p. 187] Lulu, Countess Geschwitz, Acrobat, Waiter clarity, as in the theatre. 11 ‘I have lost all my money’ 2:09 [p. 189] We are proud to be Journalist, Banker, Mother, Designer, Alwa, adding this powerful Fifteen-year-old Girl, Servant work to our Opera in 12 ‘What the hell is this?’ 3:32 [p. 191] English series. Alwa, Lulu, Waiter, Police Commissioner, Marquis Scene Two 13 ‘The rain’s beating a tattoo’ 4:34 [p. 192] Schigolch, Alwa, Lulu 14 ‘If this is not the ideal moment’ 5:52 [p. 195] February 2006 Countess Geschwitz, Schigolch, Lulu, Alwa 15 ‘Come along in, my love! Come!’ 3:30 [p. 198] Lulu, Second Client, Schigolch 16 ‘Doctor Alwa’s gone off to sleep’ 2:40 [p. 199] Schigolch, Countess Geschwitz 17 ‘Who is that?’ 4:59 [p. 200] Jack the Ripper, Lulu 18 ‘These are the last few moments’ 3:38 [p. 202] Countess Geschwitz, Lulu, Jack the Ripper TT 53:05 Sir Peter Moores examining an archaic Chinese bronze from the collection at Compton Verney 8 CHAN 3130 BOOK.qxd 11/9/06 12:56 pm Page 10 Clive Barda/ArenaPal Clive Clive Barda/ArenaPal Clive Susan Parry as Lisa Saffer in the Countess Geschwitz title role of English in English National National Opera’s Opera’s production production of Lulu of Lulu 10 11 CHAN 3130 BOOK.qxd 11/9/06 12:56 pm Page 12 ‘chambres separées’ to entertain the many Gretor. He also visited London six years after Berg: Lulu ‘kept women’. It could be described as a Jack the Ripper had become notorious. veritable ‘morality of secrecy’. 1901: Wedekind became a performer in a Alban Berg was brought up in the the unfinished Act III is a detective story in Thus, to understand Lulu we need to know cabaret group known as ‘die elf Scharfrichter’ extraordinary atmosphere that existed in itself. the other characters and experience their lives. (The eleven executioners). He sang to his own Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. Before we investigate this amazing story, let Through them we can start to comprehend the guitar accompaniment and his performances He created two individual operas – personal us examine the subject of Lulu. Whereas complexity of Lulu, indicated by the variety of were noted for their long silences and his testimonies to his experiences of Vienna – Wozzeck is concerned with the demi-monde of names by which each character knows her. The staring eyes. One of his songs is used by Berg at Wozzeck and Lulu. Both operas use forward- poor people seen through Wozzeck’s eyes, Lulu individual music for characters is, in its own the beginning of the London Scene in Act III looking texts written by authors who were deals with the world of middle class people, complex way, fully worked out, though Berg and is sung by the Marquis in the first scene. themselves eccentric individuals. Wozzeck, each an archetype, through whose eyes we see did not expect the audience to be aware of this.