RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

After his brilliant version of The Threepenny Opera, Robert Wilson pursues his work with Berliner Ensemble, the theater founded by Bertolt Brecht, revisiting a masterpiece of German expressionism: Frank Wedekind's Lulu, which inspired the film by Pabst and the opera by Alban Berg. The performers, with an astonishing Angela Winkler, and some of Wilson's longtime collaborators - the costume designer Jacques Reynaud and the musician Lou Reed - throw themselves into this gigantic work. Lulu was created by joining two pieces, The Spirit of the Earth and Pandora's Box, whose amorality caused problems with censorship in the early twentieth century. However, behind the story of this woman's scandalous rise and fall, there lies both a great modern tragedy and a dazzling ode to freedom.

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ROBERT WILSON

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Born in Waco, Texas, Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. After being educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Wilson founded the New York-based performance collective “The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds” in the mid-1960s, and developed his first signature works, including Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-1975). With Philip Glass he wrote the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976). Wilson’s artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians such as Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Jessye Norman and Anna Calvi. He has also left his imprint on masterworks such as Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera, Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande, Goethe’s Faust, Homer’s Odyssey, Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s La Traviata and Sophocles’ Oedipus. Wilson's drawings, paintings and sculptures have been presented around the world in hundreds of solo and group showings, and his works are held in private collections and museums throughout the world. Wilson has been honored with numerous awards for excellence, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, two Premio Ubu awards, the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, and an Olivier Award. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the German Academy of the Arts, and holds 8 Honorary Doctorate degrees. France pronounced him Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2003) and Officer of the Legion of Honor (2014); Germany awarded him the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (2014). Wilson is the founder and Artistic Director of The Watermill Center, a laboratory for the Arts in Water Mill, New York.

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LULU
 

by Frank Wedekind | direction, set, light concept: Robert Wilson | music and songs: Lou Reed

cast: Angela Winkler, Anke Engelsmann, Jürgen Holtz, Georgios Tsivanoglou, Ulrich Brandhoff, Martin Schneider, Markus Gertken, Georgios Tsivanoglou, Marko Schmidt, Alexander Ebeert, Boris Jacoby, Jörg Thieme, Andy Klinger, Anna Graenzer | and the musicians Stefan Rager (drums and music insertions), Ulf Borgwardt  (keyboard and cello), Dominic Bouffard (eletric guitar), Friedrich Paravicini (horn, cello and harmonica), Ofer Wetzler (bass), Joe Bauer (sound effects)

costumes: Jacques Reynaud | co-direction: Ann-Christin Rommen | dramaturg: Jutta Ferbers | associated set designer: Serge von Arx | associated costume designer: Yashi Tabassomi | music direction: Stefan Rager | music collaborators: Hal Willner, Ulrich Maiss, Sarth Calhoun | lights: Ulrich Eh

a production by the Berliner Ensemble
Premiere at the BE: 12th April, 2011

project and international production: Change Performing Arts, Milan, Italy | director: Franco Laera | production coordinator: Simona Fremder | public relations and text translation: Maristela Gaudio

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production in Brazil: prod.art.br | production directors: Carminha Gongora, Matthias Pees and Ricardo Muniz Fernandes | technical director: Júlio Cesarini | technical coordination: Ana Cristina Irias, André Lucena and Ivan Andrade | executive producers: Alexandra Roehr, Carlos da Silva Pinto, Daniel Cordova and Ricardo Frayha

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Realisation: Sesc São Paulo

Teatro Paulo Autran - Sesc Pinheiros

São Paulo, SP, Brazil

14 to 18/11/2012