The Metropolitan Opera presents Lulu by Alban Berg as the Saturday matinee on May 8. Classic 99.1 KFUO-FM will carry the broadcast beginning at 12:00 noon (CT). Approximate running time 4 hours, 1 minute.
From the Met website:
Marlis Petersen, most recently seen this spring as Ophélie in the new production of Hamlet, plays the scandalous femme fatale of the title, a role for which she has won international acclaim. Anne Sofie von Otter sings Countess Geschwitz and James Morris is Dr. Schön.In the New Yorker, Alex Ross said
The news that Levine has withdrawn from a Lulu revival (May 8-15) to undergo back surgery is saddening, and a bit ominous: classical-music insiders are chattering about how long he will be able to keep his two crucial posts, at the Met and at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Nonetheless, the Met is going ahead with Lulu: the capable Fabio Luisi conducts, and the young German soprano Marlis Petersen (who was recently heard at the Met singing Ophelia to Simon Keenlyside’s Hamlet) takes the title role. John Dexter’s 1977 production is one of the company’s finest; even without Levine in command, Lulu will cast its dark spell.
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