Two operas in two days in two locations: Last weekend’s opening of West Edge Opera’s summer festival offered a stunning display of musical and dramatic range. Saturday night’s gripping opening of ...

William Kentridge and conductor Mark Wigglesworth underplay the humour as Brenda Rae proves a tireless, enigmatic heart to a production awash with projected imagery English National Opera is the third ...

Alban Berg’s “Lulu” is an opera by a gifted Austrian composer steeped in the feverish psychosexual atmosphere of Sigmund Freud’s Vienna. Berg based his second and final stage work on two plays by the ...

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 ...

Even if it hadn’t been performed with such musical brilliance by a large and dedicated cast, and even if it hadn’t been staged with such inventive theatrical brio, you’d have to reckon the West Edge ...

If the Metropolitan Opera decided to concentrate its entire mission into a single night, that show might look a lot William Kentridge’s production of Lulu. Berg’s 80-year-old opera is both a classic ...