Beautiful, unknowable Lulu - all things to all men, who has never pretended to be anything by what men see in me - is the chameleon-heroine revealed in Berg's musical mirror. But just as she reinvents herself with each new gaze, so the opera itself morphs and shifts with passing time, reflecting back the concerns of each age. A smudgy parable about German economic growth becomes by turns a sharply-drawn feminist crit…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:17AM on November 10, 2016