Lulu

Director Willy Decker sees the opera's plot as an incessant series of battle scenes in which the enigmatic, man-eating child-woman Lulu is passed through all social classes until she finally becomes the victim of a sex offender in the gutter. Accordingly, the stage set is reminiscent of a circus ring in which Lulu's actions and life are presented, watched by a nameless crowd. Right at the beginning, even before the first note is played, we see the lonely and immobile Lulu in an arena that only appears to be dominated by her, in which the perpetual battle between the masculine and feminine is resumed at every moment.