King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Olga Neuwirth has edited down and completed Alban Berg's Lulu, and in the process transferred the opera to 20th century America where its culmination is in 1970s New York. It is not just a minor update to the backdrop, but a major alteration which, while making Lulu African-American, allows the opera to be as much about race as it is about gender. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage at 05:35AM on September 3, 2013