An introduction by George Steiner Lulu is a woman with a power of fatal attraction, a woman like Pandora, rash enough to unleash all evil on the men whom she encounters. After being a great beauty, she ends in a garret. Her fate is to be killed by Jack the Ripper. Wedekind's expressionistic dramas have haunted the 20th century imagination, notably through Pabst's famous short film, Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks , (to be screened by BBC2 next month) and then the opera Lulu by ALBAN BERG , a work left unfinished at his death and completed in controversial circumstances a few years ago.
In this programme GEORGE STEINER , Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, discusses the genius of Alban Berg 's opera.
Producer Gotz Friedrich 's new production of Lulu will be relayed by Radio 3 tomorrow at 7.0 pm live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Graphic designer ROSEMARY TURNER Producer JOHN SELWYN-GILBERT