Desc: Lulu: Directed by Humphrey Burton. With Christine Schäfer, Kathryn Harries, Patricia Bardon, Jonathan Veira. Based on a pair of once-banned plays by the fin de siècle satirist Frank Wedekind, Alban Berg's operatic swan song charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale, a serial seductress, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual death at the hands of Jack the Ripper.