Who composed the music for the 1935 opera Lulu?
Lulu (opera) C Lulu (opera) Lulu (composed from 1929 to 1935, premièred incomplete in 1937 and complete in 1979) is an opera in three acts by Alban Berg. The German-language libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's two "Lulu" plays, "Erdgeist" ("Earth Spirit", 1895) and "Die Büchse der Pandora" ("Pandora's Box", 1904). Berg died before completing the third and final act, and in the following decades the opera was typically performed incomplete. Since its publication in 1979, however, the version including Friedrich Cerha's orchestration of the act 3 sketches has become standard. Theodor W. Adorno wrote "The opera "Lulu" is
Lulu (opera) steadily on the score of "Lulu", in seclusion at his lodge, the "Waldhaus", in Carinthia. In the spring of 1934, he learned from Wilhelm Furtwängler that production of "Lulu" in Berlin would now be impossible under the current cultural and political situation. It was at this point that he set aside the work on the opera to prepare a concert suite, in case the opera could never be performed, and also considered expanding it into a "Lulu" Symphony. This was his "Symphonische Stücke aus der Oper "Lulu"" ("Lulu Suite") for soprano and orchestra. Subsequently Erich Kleiber performed the piece at