by Jason Buchanan
synopsis
Alban Berg's operatic take on a pair of previously-banned plays by fin de siècle satirist Frank Wedekind is performed before a live audience at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in this release featuring music by the London Philharmonic conducted by Andrew Davis. Christine Schäfer and Kathryn Harries star in the tale of a society hostess that falls into the bleak world of prostitution before falling prey to notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper.
characteristics
- Rise And Fall Stories
- Prostitutes
- Seduction
- Seductress
- Whore
- Streetwalker
- Prostitute/prostitution
- Murder
- Fall [downfall]
- Courtesan
- Femmes Fatales
- Hooker
