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Lulu: A Murder Ballad
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In 2013-2014, Opera North Projects is collaborating with accordion driven, anarchic Brechtian street opera trio, The Tiger Lillies, to create Lulu: A Murder Ballad.
Lulu is all things to all men: the hunter and the hunted; addictive pleasure and exquisite pain. She is amoral but curiously selfless, the ingénue femme fatale who embraces death. She is a contradiction. She is what you want her to be. Surrounded by venal men who exploit her and are destroyed by her: her name is Lulu and she is nothing but trouble.
The perfect date for The Tiger Lillies, whose fascination with society’s dark underbellies and dangerous people has lasted throughout their Olivier Award-winning career.
‘They create a truly extraordinary atmosphere on stage – a sort of dark gypsy cabaret shimmering with menace. The music is also gorgeously beautiful, tender and delicate – although the sweetness is almost always followed by some outrageously funny or horrible twist. (The Scotsman)
We want to revisit the ever-fascinating Lulu for a new audience, in a newly commissioned show that is part song-cycle, part visual adventure, through-composed, with a projected visual world encompassing it and performance integrated into it. It will tour to up to six venues in England in 2014.
Opera North is the national opera company for the north of England. Opera North Projects is a centre for the development of artists, audiences and commissioning and developing new work across artforms.