From the gutter
Nadja Loschky directs Lulu in Frankfurt (***½) [live]
"I must carry on, I cannot stop, I have run out of time." It is a delirious Alban Berg who confides these words to his wife in the summer of 1935. Marked by asthma, heart trouble and deadly fatigue, he is putting the finishing touches to his Violin Concerto. For this purpose he temporarily inte…
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